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This Week in Logistics News (April 29 – May 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

But I also found it interesting that Dick Morley , the father of the PLC (programmable logic controllers to you non-geeks), organized geek pride days in New Hampshire as early as 2001. Almost 75% expected supply chain restructuring to negatively impact China’s economy much more than any other country.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 31 – August 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

As Steve Banker wrote about in last week’s news roundup, the worldwide shortage of semiconductors is expected to last through the first quarter of 2023 at a minimum according to the electronics supply chain analysis firm Supplyframe. Costs for pet food ingredients have climbed 8 percent to 20 percent since the pandemic began.

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Apple: Still a Penny Wise and Pound Foolish?

Talking Logistics

There’s been a lot of press lately about the business relationship between Apple and GT Advanced Technologies (“GTAT”), which started when GTAT unexpectedly filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in early October. Bankruptcy Court District of New Hampshire. Game theory teaches us the answer is “no.” Why did the company accept the deal?

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Is a 3PL Service Provider Right for Your Company? 4 Questions to Ask Yourself

GlobalTranz

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post, republished with permission, from the Fronetics Supply Chain & Logistics blog. Fronetics is an inbound digital marketing agency specializing in the supply chain and logistics verticals. He will complete his MBA from the University of New Hampshire in 2015.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 10-14, 2014)

Talking Logistics

This week, FedEx Freight drivers voted against the union in Newark, New Jersey , and Con-way Freight employees did the same in Manchester, New Hampshire. The lab will focus on Prime Air.”. Want to work at Amazon to help develop Prime Air? Check out one of the job listings the company posted in the UK.

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Walmart Expands Use of Scanning Robots, Launches MFC for Grocery

Multichannel Merchant

Walmart is expanding its fleet of shelf-scanning robots, adding 650 this year for a total of 1,000 as it looks to address nettlesome grocery out-of-stock issues and battle competitors with the technology, including Ahold Delhaize’s Stop & Shop, Giant Eagle and Schnuck’s, Bloomberg is reporting. A report last year from McKinsey & Co.

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How Do We Know National Network for Manufacturing Innovation is Working? Because China is Copying It.

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Editor's note: This is a guest blog from our friend Adam Nager from the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation or ITIF. China’s new manufacturing policy roadmap, unveiled in 2015 and called Made in China 2025, includes numerous policy initiatives designed to create an advantage for China in 10 key advanced-technology industries.