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Global Supply Chains in Flux as U.S. Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China Take Effect

Logistics Viewpoints

Businesses are responding with production shifts, supply chain diversification, inventory stockpiling, and trade route adjustments in efforts to lessen the financial burden and avoid long-term instability. production at its South Carolina plant to reduce reliance on North American imports. Volvo has ramped up U.S.

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Florence Et Al.

Supply Chain Shaman

North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia sit squarely in the storm’s path. It is now closed at the start of a busy shipping season as companies prepare for holiday inventory builds. Transportation will become more variable; and even scarce. Work closely with transportation carriers.

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Say Customer Service and Mean It

Supply Chain Shaman

And if you speak long enough, you will hear about a supply chain design that delivers growth at twice the rate of competitors while outperforming on cost, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). The two primary manufacturing sites are located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Irmo, South Carolina. The answer?

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ScottsMiracle-Gro Improves Distribution System in Sustainability and Customer Service

Supply Chain Network

By consolidating the shipment of bagged fertilizer and growing media goods into regional on-site warehouses, the Company has been able to: • Maximize truckload space, reducing overall delivered mileage and transportation costs. Improve inventory turns at retail by reducing fertilizer order minimums. Media Contact: Anne Kreuser.

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Hurricane Florence: What We Know About the Year's First Major Storm

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As of 11 AM ET on Wednesday, it’s travelling about 485 miles southeast of Wilmington, North Carolina and roughly 520 miles east-southeast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with winds of about 125 mph, according to the NHC. Experts are warning that South Carolina residents should prepare to evacuate.

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Hurricane Florence: What You Need to Know About the Year's First Major Storm

Elementum

As of 11 AM ET on Wednesday, it’s travelling about 485 miles southeast of Wilmington, North Carolina and roughly 520 miles east-southeast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with winds of about 125 mph, according to the NHC. Experts are warning that South Carolina residents should prepare to evacuate.

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Starbucks Appoints New Supply Chain Chief

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Investigations showed that one main cause of the loss in revenue was that less than half of deliveries arrived on time, driving up costs, and over 50% of their supply chain budget went to outsourcing delivery to third party transportation services, leading to cost inflation. Plant in Columbia, South Carolina in 2009.