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This Week in Logistics News (February 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

As I highlighted in my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2013 , tablets and smartphones are quickly becoming the preferred computing platform for business professionals, which is why technology providers are designing and optimizing their applications for these devices. Song of the Week: “Miracle Mile” by Cold War Kids.

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Boeing’s Production Quality Crisis Significantly Escalates

Supply Chain Matters

We do so in the lens of supply chain management and manufacturing. While such an application might have been effective, and Procter and Gamble might have been pleased, it is not in conformance with the approved manufacturing process instruction specification for the aircraft. That was up from a reported 10 percent in 2013.

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[INFOGRAPHIC, REPORT, & INTERACTIVE MAP] The US Manufacturing Workforce & Making it In America

GlobalTranz

While US manufacturing has been hit hard by nearly two decades of policy failures that have damaged its international competitiveness, it remains a vital part of the U.S. The US manufacturing sector employed 12 million workers in 2013, or about 8.8 On average, non-college-educated workers in manufacturing made 10.9

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Biobased Economy GROWS in 2018

NC State SCRC

Most importantly, the growth of the sector has increased, since we began working on these studies in 2013. As shown in the chart below, employment has grown by more than 63M jobs, and value added by more then $120B since 2013.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more. Content Summary: Trucks Platoon Across North Carolina Turnpike. This past summer Volvo Trucks North America announced a successful on-highway demonstration of its truck platooning technology. Warehouse Automation.

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USDA Announced Release of BioBased Economy Study Completed by NC State and Duke University

Supply Chain View from the Field

Now, we know that in 2013 alone, America’s biobased industry contributed four million jobs and $369 billion to our economy,” Vilsack said. In 2013, 1.5 . “This report is the first to examine and quantify the effect of the U.S. biobased products industry from an economics and jobs perspective.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

2013 has certainly been an interesting year! I helped create the first North American chapter of BVL International in the Carolinas, and we hosted two meetings at Volvo in North Carolina and Thyssen-Krupp in South Carolina. Cost Pressures Will Continue to Escalate.