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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

million vehicles cross the bridge annually, or about 30,000 per day, according to the Maryland Department of Transportation. Millions of people descended on states with views of the 2017 total solar eclipse, congesting roadways. The bridge is part of the heavily traveled Interstate 695 linking Baltimore to Washington, D.C.

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Supply Chain Risk: It’s Not Whether Severe Weather, but When

Enterra Insights

”[1] To learn how much of a concern climate change is becoming for supply chain operations, Resilinc partnered with the University of Maryland and other academics to answer questions like: “How exposed is our global supply chain network? The previous record for billion-dollar events in a year was 16, in 2017 and 2011.

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Hurricane Florence Update: Impacts, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

Elementum

Response: State of Emergency declarations were already made in the states of Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The Hurricane Center has warned that, similar to Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Florence will linger in the southeastern states for days. In North Carolina, Gov.

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Conquering the Explosion of Supply Chain Planning Data

Logility

A University of Maryland/DHL study found the demand-to-supply ratio of available supply chain jobs to qualified individuals is 6 to 1. www.logility.com/blog , 2017. Hiring managers continually say there is a “War for Talent” driving increased salaries, benefits and turnover rates for supply chain professionals. This is the reality.

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Analyzing Supply Chain Risk

Enterra Insights

Suresh Acharya, a Professor of Practice in the Online Master’s in Business Analytics at the University of Maryland, insists, “A thorough understanding of how to leverage data analytics to address supply chain disruptions and strengthen overall processes can help to soften that blow considerably.”[5] Footnotes. [1]

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Hurricane Florence Update: Impacts, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

Elementum

Response: State of Emergency declarations were already made in the states of Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The Hurricane Center has warned that, similar to Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Florence will linger in the southeastern states for days. In North Carolina, Gov.

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Doing Business in Belgium

QAD

state of Maryland with 30,528 sq km of area. 2 percent annually as of 2017, making Belgium the 168 th country in the world for industrial growth rates. In fact, 23 percent of its GDP in 2017 went to investments in fixed capital and inventories. In 2017, Belgium had $300.8 percent of its GDP in 2017.

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