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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

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In the early morning hours of April 26, at approximately 1:35am, a cargo ship leaving Baltimore Harbor struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long The bridge is part of the heavily traveled Interstate 695 linking Baltimore to Washington, D.C. mile-long span. An estimated 11.5

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 11.5-11.9

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We’ve used our transportation management system to make load times a critical metric for us.”. Amazon’s safety record scrutinized after Baltimore warehouse tragedy. Hospitals overpaying by $25 billion on their supply chains according to report. "[You] have to ask us both that question at the same time.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. ” —Translation from the Greek by Ludwig Edelstein. Today, nine out of ten supply chains are stuck.

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When The Wheels Fall Off

Supply Chain Shaman

For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. For example, Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) has very little to do with Transportation Planning (TMS). Transportation Reliability. The global supply chain assumes wide availability of transportation. The problem?

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This Week in Logistics News (April 13 – 19)

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Some of the robots zip around the hulking facility transporting pallets of merchandise fresh off delivery trucks. Baltimore is not included in Global Port Tracker’s national totals because its data is reported later than other ports. The February Transportation Intelligence report from economic forecasting firm FR showed that U.S.