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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. Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers.

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

Advanced planning evolved with a focus on modeling manufacturing constraints. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Procurement became an island–isolated from the demand signal except for MRP. Procurement: Purchase price variance and procurement cost.

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Supply Chain Risk Management: Could You Face a Category 4 Supply Chain Disaster?

Kinaxis

Starting with Miami, this port primarily handles containerized cargo with small amounts of breakbulk, vehicles and industrial equipment. It is the largest container port in the state of Florida and ninth in the United States. containerized loaded cargo volume and more than 18% of the East Coast container trade.

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Inoculating 2021 E-Commerce with Fulfillment Best Practices

Logistics Viewpoints

Retailers, manufacturers and others welcomed new e-commerce customers, sold new types of products, and fulfilled more direct and online orders. Critical cargo to treat COVID-19 rightfully gets prioritized by carriers, with vaccines, treatments and equipment saturating carrier capacity in the United States and abroad.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 27 – June 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

manufacturers re-evaluating their reliance on China. manufacturers re-evaluating their reliance on China. Walmart added new functionality that lets sellers purchase shipping labels for domestic orders on its marketplace. And now on to this week’s logistics news. Walmart SWW currently offers FedEx and USPS shipping.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic followed by supply chain disruptions around the world has sparked a resurgence of companies bringing sourcing and manufacturing back to the United States or closer to U.S. Companies are coping with rising costs to source and produce goods in China and other Asian locales.

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Supply Chain Case Study: the Executive's Guide

Supply Chain Opz

Manufacturing systems and regulatory compliance are considered to be very complex, coupled with the limited number suppliers due to the high barriers to entry. Moreover, the aircraft manufacturers have to do whatever it takes to win the order long before the commencement of production.