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Resilience by Design: The Power of Simulation in Supply Chain Strategy

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Optimal sourcing plant is different for different periods A baseline optimization model shows that depending on the period (month), the optimal sourcing location varies. For example, Colorado should be serviced by the plant in Texas in certain months and by the California plant during others.

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Editor’s Choice: What Supply Chains Must Overcome to Deliver on the Consumer Promise

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The following will delve into some of the intricate farm-to-table challenges that supply chains face across sourcing, demand planning, procurement and inventory management, transportation, and warehousing. The blackberries you eat today could be from Mexico, and the ones you buy next week could be from California.

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Yards Are Hard

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Managing yard and warehouse operations has long been one of the thornier aspects of transportation logistics. Yards are a choke point between transportation and warehousing — and wherever you have choke points, you have a higher risk of inefficiencies that drive up labor costs, detention fees and delivery commitments.

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You Should Be Worried. Supply Chains Are Not OK. Let’s Lock Arms To Drive Change

Supply Chain Shaman

Background on Ocean Transport. Pandemic demand for goods, and the shifts from a service economy, increased volume in southern California ports where 40% of ocean carriers unload for entry into the United States. The landlocked ports of Southern California are especially problematic. Get Good at Inventory Management.

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How Manufacturers Can Take Control of Inventory with RFID Technology

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As I discussed in a recent article in RFID Journal , RFID technology has changed a lot since 2005 and could be the secret to ensuring greater visibility and inventory accuracy this year. They don’t have an internal power source, so range and data storage is sacrificed to gain cost efficiency and lifespan. What is RFID Technology?

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This Week in Logistics News (January 14 – 20)

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This new system of inventory management will go into effect on March 1, and will replace weekly restock limits that Amazon used for calculating FBA storage. Directors at Amazon agencies and accelerators said that these new changes will help sellers forecast inventory better. California is a major logistics hub for these items.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 12 – 18)

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and European companies may last longer than expected as they try to sell off their bulging inventories in an economic climate where demand is stalling. The Port of Kahului is fully operational, and interisland freight and transport company Young Brothers noted in an Aug. 11 release. without any extra packaging.