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Southern California Wildfires and Windstorm 

Exiger Perspectives

(Source: Public Works Los Angeles County) Road closures in LA County Historical events, such as the 2017-2018 Thomas Fire in Southern California, have demonstrated that wildfires of this magnitude can severely disrupt supply chains, with road closures, damaged infrastructure, and workforce displacement leading to delays and increased costs.

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Retailer’s Guide to Delivering Phenomenal Delivery Experiences!

Supply Chain Game Changer

As retailers, you need a robust logistics solution that helps in aligning your capacity with customers’ delivery preferences. Above are all the challenges that retailers face when their logistics system is not aligned with customer expectations. This pushes them to provide subpar delivery experiences to customers.

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This Week in Supply Chain Tech- May 15 2025

Supply Chain Matters

including its global supply chain sustainability software offering for beneficial cargo owners (BCOs) , enterprise supply chain leaders and logistics service providers (LSPs). According to the announcement, The necessities of scaling led them to build Teslas end-to-end supply chain orchestration system from scratch.

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Electric trucks sales soar by 80% in 2024 as battery pack prices fall and new models enter market

EFT

Electrification continues to make rapid inroads into trucking, as the International Energy Agency (IEA) recorded an 80% growth in sales in 2024 , led by China and making it the third consecutive year of expanding sales after poor market performance from 2018 to 2021.

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New National Motor Freight Traffic Association Cargo Theft Framework Released

Supply Chain Digest

See More Bad News on US Cargo Theft.) Click here to send us your comments In response, the National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA) has just released a framework it says can help shippers, carriers and brokers fight back against the growing and increasingly sophisticated threat of digitally enabled cargo theft.

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Italy’s Ferrero to Buy U.S. Cereal Icon Kellogg

Supply Chain Brain

confectionary business in 2018. Featured Product Popular Stories End to De Minimis Slows Flow of Air Cargo from China to U.S. For several years, Ferrero has been seeking to grow its business in North America, making a series of acquisitions, including Nestlé’s U.S. Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

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FedEx Founder Fred Smith Dies at 80

Supply Chain Digest

Studying economics at Yale, Smith’s 1965 term paper pitched the idea of creating a logistics company that would carry only cargo, and do so for a package’s end-to-end journet, such that a package could be delivered almost anywhere in the US overnight. The major focus of logistics is on e-commerce. What do you say?