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Like the Mississippi River Through New Orleans, Today’s CPG Market is Quickly Changing Directions

QAD

Twisting and turning, changing directions quickly, the Mississippi River winds down the center of the U.S. Manufacturers of food, beverage and consumer products are facing challenging times, changing consumers and the need to deliver new products to the marketplace faster than ever before. Supply Chain Planning 2020.

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Plant-location decisions and potential supply chain risk

Kinaxis

The outcome is expected to either significantly impact an existing automotive supplier network or prompt manufacturers and suppliers to move or begin operations. The Wall Street Journal reports that at least 11 states are in talks to land the manufacturing plant.

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Peet’s Coffee and the Roasted Bean Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

In DSD, instead of shipping truckload quantities of goods directly to a retailer’s regional distribution center every few weeks, a manufacturer has their own account representatives that sell to and service individual stores. They are exploring opening a second warehouse east of the Mississippi.

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Talk Doesn’t Cook the Rice

Supply Chain Shaman

As they say in Mississippi, “Talk doesn’t cook the rice.” For manufacturers and distributors of pharmaceuticals, medical device components, healthcare providers and consultants in healthcare. ” The essence of this colloquialism is that words have to be converted to action.

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Recession-proof Supply Chains with FTZs

QAD

Looking back to plan ahead In a time when most furniture is made overseas, there remains a small but vibrant community of furniture manufacturers in a part of Mississippi better known for the birthplace of Elvis Presley than domestic manufacturing. Then, these manufacturers turned to the FTZ program. they paid 5.3%

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Five-Year Study Showcases the Benefits of US Foreign-Trade Zones

QAD

If a US company wants to manufacture onshore, they’ll likely still import many parts overseas. Once again, because an FTZ is considered outside the US for duty purposes, a company assembling or manufacturing products within an FTZ does not pay duties on the parts it imports. For many products, this can result in significant savings.

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Overcoming Supply Chain Challenges in the Beverage Industry 

Logility

Major can manufacturers also cater to large companies, such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. As well as other bigger manufacturers, they predicted the shortage and made sure they would have what they needed. This means that smaller manufacturers were left out in the cold. And there’s no end in sight. . • A shortage of carbon dioxide.

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