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SYNOPSlS: Unlocking Greater Value in Your Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Held Last January 27, 2022. SYNOPSlS: Your Supply Chain Roadmap IDC’s Predictions for 2022 and Beyond. The World in 2022: What’s on the horizon for supply chains this year? LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – February 2022. Samsung Roundtable Presented by LogiSYM. SYNOPSlS: Unlocking Greater Value in Your Supply Chain.

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Building a Company and a Network with Nicole Glenn

The Logistics of Logistics

In 2008 Nicole moved to the sales side of the business, working her way up to president of K & L Freight Management, Inc., Logistics is in Nicole’s DNA having held several operational positions for a variety of transportation brokerage companies over the years. and in 2016 became head of Cherry Logistics Corporation.

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Supply Chain Normalcy? Think Again.

Supply Chain Shaman

In March 2023, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index fell to the lowest level since November 2008. In the spring of 2022, Asia/US ocean container rates resumed pre-pandemic levels and congestion eased in November 2022 into California ports. ” I feel like we are riding a gondola in the middle of an intense snowstorm.

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SYNOPSlS: Augmentation of the Logistics Workforce

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Raymon is currently the President of the Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society and under his stewardship the Society has been nominated the Best Logistics Education Provider in ASIA in 2003 & 2004, In 2008, the Society won the Supply Chain Asia Education Award and was again nominated for the award in 2010.

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Surviving an Economic Downturn in the Retail Sector

Enterra Insights

She reports, “Retailers like Best Buy, Party City, Walmart and Wayfair announced layoffs in 2022. But for anyone harking back to the last major recession in 2008, the stakes are far different this time around for consumers and retailers.”[4] Shoppers Say: We Like Being Called Cheap ,” Marketing Daily, 13 June 2022. [4]

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Marijuana Supply Chain: Profits and Headaches

Logistics Viewpoints

In my home state of Massachusetts, which decriminalized small amounts of recreational marijuana in 2008 and fully legalized recreational marijuana in 2019, recreational cannabis prices have plummeted due to a massive shift in supply and demand. Jobs in retail, restaurants, trucking, and warehousing are particularly hard to fill.

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Addressing Challenges in Global Logistics Operations with Technology

DELMIA Quintiq

Going back 14 years ago, the logistics industry dramatically reduced capital expenditure in 2008 when the great recession hit. In March 2022, the United States had a record-high 8.1 Most of the companies never really resumed the pre-recession rate of expenditure growth. million vacant job openings.