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This Week in Logistics News (June 23-27, 2014)

Talking Logistics

So it gives me great pleasure to say, that with the next pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, the NBA selects Isaiah Austin from Baylor University.”. April 2014 North American Freight Numbers. The last shutdown occurred in the fall of 2002, as retailers were preparing for the Christmas holiday period. It lasted 10 days and cost the U.S.

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What does increasing regulatory oversight mean for the pharma supply chain?

The Network Effect

Due to more complex supply chains, policy makers worldwide are enforcing stricter regulations for manufacturing and logistics. Within a decade, the number of FDA warning letters sent to medical device manufacturers has increased threefold, from 61 letters in 2002 to 181 in 2012 (EC A 2012).

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Amazon Takes On the Fashion Supply Chain

Elementum

It has been selling apparel since 2002, and has slowly been making further in-roads to the fashion industry. It listed 30 million items in its fashion division at the end of 2015, a 91% increase from 2014. Amazon is not new to fashion. In fact, it has acquired fashion sites such as ShopBop, MyHabit and East Dane.

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Ready For the Next Port Crisis?

Talking Logistics

Those same words were said when the ports were shut down for 10 days in 2002 , and again in December 2012 when 600 clerks went on strike , shutting down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for 8 days. appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. We cannot let this happen again. Any ideas on what to do?

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Nearshoring & Reshoring Will Continue to Increase Thanks to these Main Benefits

GlobalTranz

These recall counts point to sizeable growth over the past decade in the recall notices of Chinese-made consumer goods from 58 in 2002 to 153 in 2014. The CPSC publishes online a listing of recalls by country or administrative area of manufacture and year. This is not surprising given the sharp rise in goods imported from China.

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

Insufficient on-the-job training — Over the period from 2002 to 2013, investments in internal training programs such as apprenticeships, company classroom training, and other structured on-the-job skills development for current manufacturing employees were cut from 469,000 to 288,000 (nearly 40 percent). Annually, 3.2 - 3.5

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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

The details: 2001-Acquired Clairol for 4.9B$ 2002-Divestiture of Jif and Crisco to Smuckers–813M in Stock 2003-Acquisition of Wella for 7B$ 2005-Merger with Gilette for 57B$ 2008-Purchase of Nioxin for 300M$ 2009-Purchased Art of Shaving for 60M$ 2009-purchased ZIRH for 40M. Discontinued in 2011. A case is not a case.