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The Logistics & Supply Chain of Thanksgiving

GlobalTranz

The turkey is out of the oven. per pound for turkey might seem like an expense, but that cost and bird reflects more about the supply chain’s functions than you realize. The Thanksgiving Turkey’s Plight. Frozen turkeys make up 90 percent of Thanksgiving sales, explains Chris Cunnane of Logistics Viewpoints. Paying $1.18

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Inditex Demonstrates Continued Business Benefits from Agile Supply Chain Capabilities

Supply Chain Matters

Leveraging practices of fast design coupled with localized production sourcing that is able to design and produce products in a matter of days. The retailer made a conscious decision to increase overall inventory levels by 27 percent among suppliers located across Spain, Turkey and Morocco to provide added business agility.

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Bleak Peak 2022 Leaves Shippers Feeling Less than Thankful

Intelligent Audit

Despite carrier hopes of volume normalization as the market contracts in 2023, FreightWaves warns, “ 2023 is likely to be another year of sub-replacement level builds due to parts and components shortages as well as Europe’s struggles with sourcing energy to power vendor manufacturing site. ”. YoY Volume Lapses Worry Air Cargo Companies.

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Rethinking Black Swan Events for Modern Supply Chain Risk Management

Resilinc

Imagine a turkey that is well-fed and has lived a comfortable life. If the Turkey is slaughtered for Thanksgiving—that would be considered a black swan event for that turkey. However, for the butcher (and most people), this is a reoccurring event that we know happens annually to many turkeys. Here’s another example.

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Minnesota turkeys are stuffing outbound trucks

DAT Solutions

The Land of a Thousand Lakes is also the number-one state for turkey production, by a wide margin. So it's no big surprise that the Minneapolis market area was also the land of a thousand loads (per day) in the first half of November, as fresh turkeys got stuffed into temp-controlled trailers during the run-up to Thanksgiving.

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Supply Chain Predictions 2020: Uncertainty Demands Resilience

ToolsGroup

They drive benefits such as improved business planning and improved sourcing, procurement and supplier management. Turkey and the Netherlands). Cem Kobaner, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Advancetics BV (Turkey and the Netherlands). Levent Ozsahin, Managing Director, Advancetics B.V. Spotlight on 3-D printing dims.

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66% of CEOs are concerned about human rights risks within their supply chains…

Proxima

Since so many companies experienced the consequences of sourcing from Asia during the Covid pandemic, recent years have seen an increase in sourcing from alternative markets. With the motto: “Let’s make chocolate 100 percent slave-free”, Tony Chocolonely applies five key sourcing principles to ensure they deliver on their promise.