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History Repeats Itself Without Supply Chain Leadership

Supply Chain Shaman

My ex-husband decided that we were going to move to Delaware. Frank, the line manager for manufacturing, dominated the meetings. Despite goals to improve agility and resiliency, functional metrics for manufacturing efficiency continually throw the supply chain out of balance. Sharing My Experience. The year was 1982.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper is also home to a leading cancer center (MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper), the only Level II pediatric trauma center in the Delaware Valley (Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper), three urgent care centers, and more than 100 outpatient offices from Southeastern Pennsylvania to the Jersey Shore.

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Industry 4.0: Driven by 5G and Cognitive Technologies

Enterra Insights

Peter Fretty ( @pfretty ) writes, “Properly leveraged, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to empower manufacturers with data-based insights specific to their individualized operations. ” In spite of the perceived benefits, the study also found, “Many manufacturers remain ‘behind the curve’.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Revenue data is sourced from the companies’ websites and market research platforms such as Macrotrends. The company was founded in 1905 when a Dutchman named CWH van Dam purchased a barge boat to transport goods between Germany and Rotterdam along the river Rhine. In 2019, Damco became a non-integrated brand of the A.P.

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How Shippers Use Carbon Emissions Shipment Data to Reduce Total Carbon Footprint

Intelligent Audit

Examples include vehicles, which are mobile emissions, and manufacturing, which fall under process emissions. They include energy sources your company purchased for its use, such as electric car refueling, electricity for the building, and similar types. Scope 2: These are indirect emissions related to your company’s ownership.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 22 – 27)

Logistics Viewpoints

And it follows the company’s announcement in April 2022 that it would bump up annual salaries for truck drivers to up to $110,000 and launch the 12-week development program for supply-chain associates in Dallas, Texas, and Dover, Delaware, to earn their commercial drivers licenses.