Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

I seethed as the news stations celebrated supply chain success for the December holidays. The health of the supply chain underpins our economy. When the supply chain is sick, all industries suffer. The supply chain can handle cost increases more easily than variability. Freight Rates 2019-2021.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The LA and Long Beach Container Vessels. The photos of the cargo ships at anchor waiting for berth at the ports of LA and Long Beach certainly generate an emotional response, “what in those containers will affect my work or personal consumption plans?” Source: Ports of LA, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle-Tacoma.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Will the supply chain ever catch a break? With every link of the supply chain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supply chain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. Raw Material Shortages Are Affecting a Challenged Supply Chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Supply chain is once again front-page news in the general business media. Meanwhile, supply shortages and price inflation are getting the front page in consumer-focused publications and plenty of airtime on televised news. I believe there are many reasons for the current supply shortages and supply chain disruptions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

I seethed as the news stations celebrated supply chain success for the December holidays. The health of the supply chain underpins our economy. When the supply chain is sick, all industries suffer. The price of an ocean shipment increased 9-10X from 2020-2021. Freight Rates 2019-2021.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. While we will recover quickly in retail (moving from painful shortages to a glut of inventory), the chemical industry–sitting four and five layers back in the supply chain–takes longer to recover.

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West Coast and California Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2021

The impact of COVID-19 has been felt all along the supply chain. For ocean shipping and import operations, this impact continues to be severe, with ramifications expected to be felt well into 2021.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 19, 2024

I certainly saw a lot of exhibitors touting their AI capabilities, especially when it came to more informed decision making across the entire supply chain network. This means that air cargo is about to play an expanded role in the supply chain ecosystem. Uber purchased Drizly in a cash-and-stock deal back in 2021.

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Logility

APRIL 5, 2021

What do the port of Long Beach, California and the Suez Canal have in common? Water is one obvious answer to that question, but a supply chain professional might say, “recent headline-grabbing sources of supply variability that have disrupted global supply networks.” If it’s not COVID, it’s something else.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2022

Supply chain resilience is “the capacity of a supply chain to persist, adapt, or transform in the face of change” Wikipedia. I am thinking a lot this month about business resilience and the role of supply chain leaders. In the last decade, supply chain performance regressed.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A recent episode of CBS’s “60 Minutes” ran a segment on some of the issues involved in the current global supply chain crisis — focusing primarily on U.S. For the supply chain to work smoothly, a complex and highly choreographed dance, involving both full and empty shipping containers, must be performed.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 25, 2022

Resilience and Adaptation to Outsmart Supply Chain Challenges. In his opening keynote address, Target CEO Brian Cornell said the supply chain crisis necessitates greater data transparency and analytics to win in the short term. Upstream supply visibility is crucial. Upstream supply visibility is crucial.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 3, 2022

The beginning of 2021 started with hope on the horizon. Supply chain leaders were looking forward to returning to pre-pandemic operations. Then, the whole year became marred by disruption after disruption, and shippers need to understand how the lessons learned from 2021 will be applicable in future strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

For 2021, there has been another hiccup, which the wine industry may refer to as the great supply chain kerfuffle. The issue has become supply chain and manufacturing constraints, which have delayed the deliveries of such essential items as bottles, corks, and even the wine itself for brokers.

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QAD

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The global supply chain is facing a perfect storm of challenges, and dealing with it, according to GE CEO Larry Culp , “really is akin to playing Whac-A-Mole.” And the current global supply chain disruptions may be sticking around longer than we might think. As one headache is eased, another pops up. In October, the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog unveils a summarized overview of our annual prediction themes for industry and global supply chains for the year 2023 and beyond. Current Year 2022.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. While we will recover quickly in retail (moving from painful shortages to a glut of inventory), the chemical industry–sitting four and five layers back in the supply chain–takes longer to recover.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. While we will recover quickly in retail (moving from painful shortages to a glut of inventory), the chemical industry–sitting four and five layers back in the supply chain–takes longer to recover.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Retailers’ holiday inventory planning has been fraught with unpleasant supply-chain surprises for two straight years. supply chain reliability. The projects through the Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration will focus on 41 ports nationwide, including at the ports in Long Beach, Calif.;

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% Traditional risk management policy assumes a contraction in growth: the conventional focus is the shutdown and reallocation of supply. A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Source E2open Shipping Index).

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 10, 2022

Should you change your supply chain procurement strategy in light of continuing supply chain disruptions? The 2021 holiday shopping season was characterized by high freight rates, elevated lead times , and over-crowded warehouses. Supply chain procurement strategies had long been favoring Just in Time procurement.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule format follow-up relative to the updating of prior supply chain management developments we have shared with readers. spiked above $20,000 at its highest point in 2021, the spot rate dropped below $4,000 per 40-foot container. West Coast port operators.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Welcome to our monthly series where we give you the scoop on five things you may have missed in supply chain news. The White House announced they’re working with the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles to up their operations to 24/7, nearly double their previous operations.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters March 23 rd edition of our COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule, we provide updates to ongoing industry supply chain developments and disruptions of concern to our reading audience. West Coast ports during 2021 in trying to process historic ship backlog levels. Canadian and U.S.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

By mid-April, the shipping traffic jam, part of a broader gridlock in supply chains around the world amid disruptions from the coronavirus pandemic, started thinning while record cargo volumes were reported in the U.S. ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach which saw their busiest March on record, handling a combined 898,287 TEU’s.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Planes, Cranes, and Barges: How America Is Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos. The former wartime airbase handled a record 1,655 international cargo arrivals in 2021, a 73% jump from 2019, and overall tonnage rose 18%. He’s expecting this year will be “very similar to 2021,” and “we’re pretty confident that we’ll continue to grow.”.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Since its passage, inflation in trucking has continued to creep upward, pressuring supply chain costs and consumer prices. By the end of 2021, bottlenecks at ports stretched into the Pacific Ocean. Over 100 ships waited to unload containers in December at Los Angeles and Long Beach, the U.S. Maybe, maybe not.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% Traditional risk management policy assumes a contraction in growth: the conventional focus is the shutdown and reallocation of supply. A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Source E2open Shipping Index).

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 7, 2022

And while a new year has donned, the same supply chain issues and trends continue to unfold as we enter 2022. Port of LA in the news: Port of Los Angeles traffic sets record in 2021. In 2021, click and collect surpassed $80 billion, and it shows no sign of slowing down. Welcome back! A record-setting 10.7

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Zipline Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2021

According to a Logistics Management survey of industry professionals, “there is a strong sentiment that the 2021 Peak Season will be more active than it was a year ago, with 79% of respondents indicating that will be the case, with 16% contending it will be similar to 2020, and 5% expecting it to be less active.”.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” In August 2021, after a long road trip, this happened. I believe that it is an analogy for what is happening in today’s supply chain market. Historically, most supply chain investments were for engines–bright guys built fabulous optimization code and plonked the software onto a relational database.

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Locus

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As the toy industry and supply chain suffer from this shortage, we can expect more out-of-stock situations for desired toys. As the 2021 holiday season began early, toy shopping started early. It is a colossal task for toy businesses to piece together a supply chain with one delay after another. – Oct 2021.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2022

Supply Chain Risk Management Solution from riskmethods. If I was asked to vote for the most interesting solution set that has come to the fore over the last few years, my vote would be for supply chain risk management solutions. This solution has a graphical view of the AGCO supply chain across multiple supplier tiers.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the podcast interview Brian shares his insights on the shipment delays on the West Coast that are wreaking havoc on retail, e-commerce, and production supply chains. In 2019, these five countries supplied 48% of the $2.5 Meanwhile USA exports dropped because of supply chain shortages, COVID related production delays.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

The pilot program for the Pod, that features zero emissions and runs entirely on electric power, began in late October 2021 at Appliance Park. This comes at a time when the food supply chain is already seeing massive disruption. The Pod then drives to another facility for laundry machine assembly and backs into a loading dock.

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ShipBob

APRIL 26, 2023

In an ecommerce business, supply chain performance is one of the key factors affecting the performance of the business as a whole. If the supply chain isn’t moving as seamlessly as it should, it could cause disruptions further down the line, and even result in delivery delays and customer disappointment.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 3, 2022

The beginning of 2021 started with hope on the horizon. Supply chain leaders were looking forward to returning to pre-pandemic operations. Then, the whole year became marred by disruption after disruption, and shippers need to understand how the lessons learned from 2021 will be applicable in future strategies.

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