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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. Applying sound sourcing principles will enable you to unlock value.

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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

Demystifying Transportation Sourcing. If you are like me, transportation sourcing is a mind boggling and complex field. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. This article is about creating value in transportation sourcing. Applying sound sourcing principles will enable you to unlock value.

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, more than 1% of the world’s container ships are stuck off major ports. Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together.

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Supply Chain Planning Solutions are Not Just for the Big Boys

Logistics Viewpoints

Myers Industries (NYSE: MYE) is headquartered in Akron, Ohio in the United States. They source plastic pellets and then use injection, blow molding, rotational molding, and thermoforming to produce their finished products. The two contract manufacturers also store the finished goods and then do the shipping.”.

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Peloton’s Supply Chain Strategy Turnabout

Supply Chain Matters

Sourcing was both a cost as well as landed cost decision factor. Containers of fitness equipment shipped from Asia were delayed by major port and inland logistics disruptions. The move was communicated as a means to boost market share and to gain access to domestic sources of manufacturing capability.

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Panama Canal Drought: Lower Water Levels, Higher Supply Chain Risk

Resilinc

Two weeks ago, 160 ships were stuck waiting to pass through the canal, carrying everything from auto parts, Barbie dolls, and diabetes test kits, according to Reuters. Some ships were delayed by as much as 21 days. 55 to 125 million gallons per ship, depending on size—to move ships through the canal.

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Cardinal Health Invests in Visibility to Improve Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. Cardinal Health sources products globally and distributes those pharmaceutical and medical supplies in the United States through their network of distribution centers. Cardinal picks, packs, and ships orders the next day across the country. domestic deliveries every day.