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

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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 (November 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

Last year’s supply chain program include two days of sessions by practitioners – executives from companies like Ahold Delhaize, AGCO, and Radwell International– on the real-world problems associated with the digital transformations they have gone through and continue to go through. SVT Robotics Raises $25 Million in Funding.

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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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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

The company created Project Gigaton in 2017 to engage suppliers and other stakeholders up and down the supply chain to reduce carbon emissions. The goal is to reduce or avoid one billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gasses from the global value chain by 2030. The nationwide vacancy rate for industrial real estate was 3.2

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

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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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