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Hurricane season 2024: how to prepare your supply chain

Resilinc

1 Production delays Manufacturing facilities in the hurricane’s path may be damaged or forced to close, leading to production delays or stoppages. Significant flooding and damage can force logistics companies to find new and longer routes. #3 Gulf Coast in August 2005.

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Smart Glasses in the Warehouse with Paul Travers

The Logistics of Logistics

Paul is the Founder and CEO of Vuzix , a leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies and products for the enterprise, medical, defense and consumer markets. Moviynt, an SAP Certified ERP SaaS logistics solution provider, is a Vuzix wholly owned subsidiary.

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10 Books Logistics And Supply Chain Experts Need To Read

Freightos

There are tens of thousands of books about logistics and supply chains. Amazon has 31,817 books about supply chain and 24,934 about logistics. That’s 56,751 supply chain and logistics books. But we got it down to ten logistics and supply chain books you’ll actually want to read. Empire State Buildings.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The End of Made In China Manufacturing

GlobalTranz

The phrase “Made in China” embodies cheap labor, the outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs, and China’s transformation into one of the world’s economic superpowers. However, it seems the end of the Made in China manufacturing era may be in sight. shale gas began in 2005. states the BCG report.

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Innovate or Die: How’s Your eCommerce Strategy?

FLEXE

Your logistics could mean the difference between life and death. In this article, we explore how eCommerce retailers can strengthen the backbone of the business—logistics—and leverage new, collaborative technologies to increase sales, improve customer retention, and decrease shopping cart abandonment. Seems like forever ago.

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Navigating the Unknowns of E-Commerce: Why Reinvent the Wheel?

Talking Logistics

You can download the full brief at LEGACY’s website. This new customer-centric reality is prompting manufacturers and retailers of all sizes to revisit their strategies and capabilities to succeed in this highly- dynamic, highly-uncertain, and highly-competitive environment. The nature of retail has indeed changed since 2005.

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Applying History’s Lessons to New Resiliency Plans

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Due to lean inventory strategies, many manufacturers only keep 15-30 days of inventory on hand. By March consumers and manufacturers alike could not obtain critical supply. However, we saw similar supply chain outages associated with the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Japan’s earthquake and Tsunami in 2011.