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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

Many off-shore manufacturers have returned to the U.S., Those changes, along with high costs of transporting materials and finished goods to and from overseas locations, make the value of reshoring likely to become a compelling financial reality for many manufacturers. for example, compared to shipping state-to-state.

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Supply chain risks in the spotlight: Effects of Hanjin Shipping filing bankruptcy protection

Kinaxis

by Dr. Madhav Durbha Supply chain risks in the spotlight: Effects of Hanjin Shipping filing bankruptcy protection. A few days ago, the world’s seventh largest container shipping company by volume, Hanjin Shipping, filed for bankruptcy protection. Any such event will cause congestion in the ports.

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10 Disruptive Issues in the Supply Chain

American Global Logistics

Persistent Red Sea Risks Continue to Disrupt Critical Trade Route The ongoing conflict in Yemen has created several shipping risks in the Red Sea. In particular, there is a risk of Houthi rebels laying mines in the shipping lanes. That's a hard-to-prevent risk that could damage or sink ships.

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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

Business continuity continues to be a risk for many retailers and manufacturers. To put this in perspective, if they had no planning system and no planners and just assumed that they would ship based on prior shipments, the forecast would be better, and the inventory levels more accurate. My take away? SAP and IBM failed the market.

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What Caused the Baby Formula Shortage + 7 Ways Consumers and Companies are Coping

ToolsGroup

And things have only gotten worse: As of May 8th, the state of Tennessee hit out-of-stocks of 54.7%, with eight metro areas facing shortages of 50% or more. This made it incredibly difficult for manufacturers to accurately gauge the market size for production. A Limited Number of Formula Manufacturers.

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Autokiniton Leverages QAD Cloud for Rapid Disaster Recovery

QAD

That said, Autokiniton, the second-largest Body-In-White and vehicle-frame supplier in North America, was as ready as any business could be when an EF-3 tornado struck its Eastgate Plant in Tennessee and damaged another nearby. They would print product labels for Eastgate, do shipping paperwork and send ASNs.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

Only 29% of manufacturers easily manage total cost trade-offs. Total cost analysis is more difficult than it sounds and most technology implementations automated functional measurement systems (manufacturing or procurement), but leave the organization blind on the management of total costs. The reason? Is this leadership?

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