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This Week in Logistics News (November 25 – December 1)

Logistics Viewpoints

In other Walmart news, the company is importing more goods to the United States from India and reducing its reliance upon China as it looks to cut costs and diversify its supply chain. That compared with just 2 percent in 2018. million through the Food Supply Chain Guaranteed Loan Program.

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Severe weather causes freight rates to slip

DAT Solutions

Overall, van volumes are not in bad shape, and are actually slightly ahead of March 2018. Road closures isolated Denver from parts of the supply chain last week. That led to an increase on the lane from Seattle to Salt Lake City , as an alternative to bringing in supplies from Denver. mile, down 2¢ Reefer: $2.19/mile,

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Mining Mountains of Data for Insights

Enterra Insights

Supply chains are complex and cognitive analytics can help deal with that complexity. 6] Footnotes [1] Boian Alexandrov and Velimir ‘Monty’ Vesselinov, “ Finding the needles in ‘big data’ haystacks ,” Albuquerque Journal, 7 March 2021. [2] ” 5. Complex Supplier Networks.

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The Top Logistics and Supply Chain Journalists & Thought Leaders to Know for 2020

Shipchain

Knowledge is power in the world of supply chain management, and every company is searching for the next best way to save money and meet consumer demand. That’s why we’ve created this list of the top logistics and supply chain journalists and thought leaders that we follow and suggest you check out in 2020. . Paul Abbott.