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

Talking Logistics

UPS Sets 2014 Rates. In 3PL news, XPO Logistics announced that it has acquired Optima Service Solutions, LLC, “a leading non-asset provider of last-mile logistics services for major retailers and manufacturers in the United States” for $26.6 Canada, and Puerto Rico will increase an average net of 4.9

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Supply Chain Best Practices: Preparing for the Worst

Elementum

Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, drug manufacturing plants were faced with production delays, fueling nationwide shortages of basic medicines. Case Studies. Hurricane Maria Disrupts the Pharma Industry. West Coast Port Strike Disrupts Shipping Lanes.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] What Manufacturing Really Looks Like: Celebrating Manufacturing Day 2015

GlobalTranz

As we have stated in several manufacturing posts , manufacturing is an industry that pulls at a lot of the heart strings of Americans. It defined a generation, was the identity of Americans, and continues to have politicians take up the “Manufacturing” cause time and time again (especially as we near election times).

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Anita Arts: “A supply chain manager can no longer sit in an ivory tower

Supply Chain Movement

The British company is owner of Unitymedia KabelBW (Germany), UPC (The Netherlands, Republic of Ireland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary and Romania), VTR (Chile) and Liberty (Puerto Rico). because there are only three major companies left who manufacturer such chipsets.”.

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Supply Chain Best Practices: Preparing for the Worst

Elementum

Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, drug manufacturing plants were faced with production delays, fueling nationwide shortages of basic medicines. Case Studies. Hurricane Maria Disrupts the Pharma Industry. West Coast Port Strike Disrupts Shipping Lanes.

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Former Teva Pharmaceutical Procurement Leader Joins Synovos

Synovos

3, 2019 – Thomas Cummins, former Global Head of Manufacturing Goods and Services Procurement for Teva Pharmaceuticals, has been named Senior Direct of Global Procurement for Synovos, the leading independent integrated supply chain management company in North America. in Whitehouse Station, NJ, before moving to Teva in 2014.

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Record High Drug Shortages in the U.S.- Same Dysfunctional Problem

Supply Chain Matters

That number is the highest reported since 2014, including the period of the Covid-19 pandemic during the years 2020 to 2023. It has to do with middlemen who have made manufacturing generic injectable drugs unprofitable, magnifying the risk of shortages by artificially reducing supply.”