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You Should Be Worried. Supply Chains Are Not OK. Let’s Lock Arms To Drive Change

Supply Chain Shaman

Pandemic demand for goods, and the shifts from a service economy, increased volume in southern California ports where 40% of ocean carriers unload for entry into the United States. The landlocked ports of Southern California are especially problematic. The California landlocked ports struggled with unloading the larger ships.

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How Many Slaves Are in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

California, for example, passed the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 , which went into effect in January 2012. The US State Department estimates that there are 27 million slaves globally. In response, federal and state governments are taking action to drive down the use of slave labor in supply chains.

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Resilience by Design: The Power of Simulation in Supply Chain Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

Optimal sourcing plant is different for different periods A baseline optimization model shows that depending on the period (month), the optimal sourcing location varies. For example, Colorado should be serviced by the plant in Texas in certain months and by the California plant during others.

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Editor’s Choice: What Supply Chains Must Overcome to Deliver on the Consumer Promise

Logistics Viewpoints

The following will delve into some of the intricate farm-to-table challenges that supply chains face across sourcing, demand planning, procurement and inventory management, transportation, and warehousing. The blackberries you eat today could be from Mexico, and the ones you buy next week could be from California.

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Supply Chain Normalcy? Think Again.

Supply Chain Shaman

In the spring of 2022, Asia/US ocean container rates resumed pre-pandemic levels and congestion eased in November 2022 into California ports. Build in-market sourcing. Rationalize global strategies to focus on building markets based on in-market sourcing. However, variability and global unrest is rising.

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Is Apple Supply Chain Really the No. 1? A Case Study

Supply Chain Opz

Apple Inc purchases raw materials from various sources then get them shipped to an assembling plant in China. For other distribution channels such as retail stores, direct sales and other distributors, Apple Inc will keep products at Elk Grove, California (where central warehouse and call center are located) and supply products from there.

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What’s going on with global supply chains: A primer for the casual consumer

Freightos

So a backlog of ships off the coast of California means fewer empty containers heading back to Asia, which means fewer ships and containers available for exports, raising the cost to ship a container from Asia to Europe by 400% in November and December 2020. . Enter, a global container shortage. But then it got worse. . Logistics is global.

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