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This Week in Logistics News (January 27 – February 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

Department of Transportation, which has selected 37 projects to be given funds made available by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s (BIL) Mega Program and the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) Grant Program. Massachusetts-based Teradyne moved its production out after U.S. The money is coming through the U.S.

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Keeping Up with Consumers

Enterra Insights

. … Most of those trading down [actions] either adjusted the quantity or pack size of their purchases (60 percent), which is the primary method of trading down for necessities, or decided to postpone a purchase (44 percent), typically for nonessential items. In January: Report ,” MediaPost, 10 February 2023. [3]

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech December 13 2022 Edition

Supply Chain Matters

This action represents a reported 77 percent premium to the company’s closing stock price on November 22, 2022, the last full trading day prior to media reports involving a potential transaction. The announcement further coincides with Coupa Software’s report of fiscal third quarter financial performance.

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Shipping Containers and Supply Chain Snarls: Is There a Way Out?

Enterra Insights

Correspondent Bill Whitaker ( @BillWhitakerCBS ) reported, “Getting the goods from here to store shelves is proving to be a lot more daunting. These boxes were called ‘Transporters.’ Rather, it was to reorganize and link intermodal transport by land and sea in a way that no one else had realized before.

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How Can Paper Producers Rise to the Production Challenge?

USC Consulting Group

According to the piece published in North Carolina State University journal BioResources, the growth in demand for pulp and paperboard thus far in 2020 has been unprecedented, with production topping 419 million metric tons and consumption reaching over 423 million metric tons worldwide. ” Out of an abundance of caution. .

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Supply chains are key to corporate social value

Proxima

Our Finance Leaders Outlook report in February underlined this, finding that 75% of US and 62% of UK finance leaders said that the pandemic had caused social value initiatives to rise as a budget priority. In our Finance Leaders Outlook report, we found that over three quarters of U.S. And businesses are doing just that.

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Talking Turkey for Thanksgiving

Enterra Insights

He explains, “As Americans sit down to their Thanksgiving Day feasts, some may recall the story of the ‘Pilgrim Fathers’ who founded one of the first English settlements in North America in 1620, at what is today the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Department of Agriculture.”

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