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Charge Me Up! Energy Storage Development – A Fast Emerging Technology Needed for Sustainability

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The first iPhone only came out in 2007 – ushering in smart phone apps and all the rest in very quick succession. Another nice thing is that they perform better at high temperatures (nice for Southeast Asia). The answer would definitely be within the last 10 years. Before that, all the needed elements would not yet have been in place.

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The West Coast Bottleneck with Brian Rice

The Logistics of Logistics

The US imported the most goods from Canada until 2007 when China replaced our neighbor to the north. The surge in ships arriving from Asia put West Coast ports under stress, which started in November and thus far has continued through into the summer months. China, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Germany are the top 5 exporters to the USA.

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Intalere Selects Consus & Ivalua to Drive Source to Contract Best Practices

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Established in 2007, Consus is a leading procurement services provider operating across 9 countries. Consus has been rated amongst the top 10 procurement service providers by APAC CIO Outlook on Asia in 2017.

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Intalere Selects Consus & Ivalua to Drive Source to Contract Best Practices

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Established in 2007, Consus is a leading procurement services provider operating across 9 countries. Consus has been rated amongst the top 10 procurement service providers by APAC CIO Outlook on Asia in 2017.

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Loser of Q2 2014: Aston Martin

Supply Chain Movement

The manufacturer of luxury sports cars which is often associated with James Bond is recalling three quarters of all the models built since November 2007 because the plastic used by one of its suppliers does not meet quality standards. A further 5,000 of them can be found in the USA, and the rest are mainly in Asia.

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COVID-19’s Immediate Impact on the Automotive Supplier Industry

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What’s more, during the great recession of 2007-09, only major automakers like GM and Chrysler got bailouts – this time, many expect suppliers will once again be denied bailouts and be forced into declaring bankruptcy. Quarantine Measures Halt Supplier Production. Bailouts for Automotive Suppliers are Unlikely.

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Labor Strike Targeting the Three U.S. Automakers- Update Two

Supply Chain Matters

automakers were forced to formulate production or component alliances with Asia based suppliers either in China or operating in in Mexico in order to support U.S. He went on to explain that this prior era included the economic shocks of the seventies and the global financial crisis in 2007 to 2008 when the real threat of two of the three U.S.