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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

And more companies are treating Supply Chain Design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise (see Supply Chain Design: Growing Scope, Community, and Collaboration ). What will happen in 2016? Or will any rate increases, if they actually occur, be short-lived?

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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

” We have many manufacturing shipper customers, and we love to create content of value for them on such subjects as best practices in logistics or trends around the supply chain. in 2016 and 3.1% Drop in the price of crude oil. in the third quarter of 2014 and is expected to grow by 3.5% in 2015, 3.9%

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

In the current global economy, the closure of a maritime chokepoint would have significant economic ramifications due to the disruption of trade flows and even some supply chains (e.g. It now has two lock systems that can be utilized simultaneously since its expansion in 2016. Gibraltar and Suez during World War II). 1200 feet).

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