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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

Four industries–B2B Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Retail Apparel, and Food Manufacturing–grew inventory during the pandemic. In contrast, other sectors reached unprecedented shortages, including Semiconductors, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Contract Manufacturing, and Retail Home Improvement.

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The West Coast Bottleneck with Brian Rice

The Logistics of Logistics

In the podcast interview Brian shares his insights on the shipment delays on the West Coast that are wreaking havoc on retail, e-commerce, and production supply chains. The US imported the most goods from Canada until 2007 when China replaced our neighbor to the north. ports and rails. trillion in U.S. imports of goods.

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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

Four industries–B2B Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Retail Apparel, and Food Manufacturing–grew inventory during the pandemic. In contrast, other sectors reached unprecedented shortages, including Semiconductors, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Contract Manufacturing, and Retail Home Improvement.

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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

Four industries–B2B Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Retail Apparel, and Food Manufacturing–grew inventory during the pandemic. In contrast, other sectors reached unprecedented shortages, including Semiconductors, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Contract Manufacturing, and Retail Home Improvement.

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8 Things to Know in Shipping, Freight, Logistics & Supply Chain this Week

Intelligent Audit

How do shippers and retailers face the new challenges of same-day fulfillment to serve the modern consumer? administration and agencies to provide logistics and transportation support as needed, because when it matters most, FedEx delivers.” FedEx issued a news release stating its commitment to “remain engaged with the U.S.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Founded in 2007, Rotterdam based Flo Group specializes in Oracle focused logistics software support and deployment services capabilities. billion in Generative AI start-up Anthropic. With this latest investment, Amazon ’s total investment in this AI start-up amounts to $4 billion, and reportedly has a minority ownership.

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3 Ways Crowdsourcing Is Revolutionizing Supply Chain Management

Kinaxis

The Amazon customer satisfaction standard has changed the game for every retailer of every size. Crowdsourcing transportation presents a solution for smaller enterprises to compete in this environment. Dell has received more than 16,000 ideas through the site since 2007, and has implemented nearly 500 of those.