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The West Coast Bottleneck with Brian Rice

The Logistics of Logistics

China, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Germany are the top 5 exporters to the USA. The US imported the most goods from Canada until 2007 when China replaced our neighbor to the north. In 2019, these five countries supplied 48% of the $2.5 trillion in U.S. imports of goods.

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Building the Network of Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2007, it took six months for companies to sense the downturn in markets and align supply chains. We hope to see you at the next meetings: June 25th-26th at Evonik in Hanau, Germany. Market growth is now 1% versus the 2.5-3% 3% of the last decade. Most companies operate blind. Today, we have not fixed this problem.

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Will inflation rage the longest in the UK?

Taulia

We surveyed 550 senior stakeholders at companies with revenues of more than $750 million USD across the USA, UK, Germany, and Singapore. Overall, 47% of British leaders said they expect inflationary conditions to last more than two years, compared with 34% in Germany and 28% in the US. in the year to December 2022, compared with 5.4%

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3 Ways Crowdsourcing Is Revolutionizing Supply Chain Management

Kinaxis

One example is zeean , a project based in Potsdam, Germany that enlists public feedback to collect data on global economic responses to extreme weather. Dell has received more than 16,000 ideas through the site since 2007, and has implemented nearly 500 of those.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 6-10, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Meanwhile, DHL announced that it successfully conducted a pilot test including robot technology for collaborative automated order picking in a DHL Supply Chain warehouse in Unna, Germany. Moving on to technology news, iContainers , a digital freight forwarder and marketplace for instant quotes and booking, announced that it secured $6.7

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

With a goal of reducing emissions to zero by 2050, the company has pledged to increase the carbon efficiency of its own activities and those of its transport subcontractors by 50% globally by the year 2025, as compared to the 2007 baseline. UPS has been working on the issue in Europe as these older cities present major challenges.

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Supply Chains Can’t Handle the Heat

Elementum

For just one foreboding example: the Rhine River in Germany, a major supply artery for Europe, may soon become impassible. The current 77 centimeter (30 inches) water level at the bottleneck, called Kaub, is the lowest seasonally since at least 2007.