Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Congress established the program in 2021 through the BIL and dedicated $5 billion to the program over a five-year period. Teradyne , a supplier of semiconductor testing equipment, pulled manufacturing worth about $1 billion out of China last year, a Teradyne spokesperson said on Monday, after U.S.
Supply Chain Matters
MARCH 29, 2022
The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights this week’s announcement from athletic footwear designer and manufacturer New Balance of the grand opening of this company’s fifth production facility in North America. In a published Supply Chain Matters at the time , we pointed out that despite knowledge that manufacturing shoes in the U.S.
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Enterra Insights
MARCH 27, 2019
Retailers have always been curious about the paths consumers take when they decide something needs to be purchased. When the Internet and World Wide Web introduced consumers to online shopping (aka e-commerce), the path to purchase became much more complex. Today the digital path to purchase is growing in importance. ”[2].
Enterra Insights
MARCH 1, 2022
And Generation Z is maturing into adulthood and will shape trends with its interest in ethical sourcing, sustainability and local food.”[4] In 2020, 57% of American households purchased plant-based foods.” And, according the Food Dive staff, manufacturers are trying to make their products healthier. Footnotes. [1]
Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 7, 2023
Spending is growing across several categories, and the top Easter items consumers say they are planning to purchase include candy ($3.3 million attempts in 2021 and 6 million in 2020, it said. The survey indicates that 81 percent of Americans will celebrate the holiday and spend an average of $192.01, the highest figure on record.
NC State SCRC
DECEMBER 15, 2022
In today’s Wall Street Journal , I was interviewed regarding a case that was just filed against Amazon by a large robotics , claiming that the e-commerce giant backed away from promises made early in the Covid-19 pandemic to support the supplier with millions of dollars in new purchases.
CH Robinson Transportfolio
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
My answer to this question for shippers procuring long-distance (outside of a given metropolitan area) dry van transportation, for both truckload and less than truckload (LTL), is that approximately 25,000 truck drivers are needed. for Q2 2021, relative to Q2 2018. Analysis of employment data.
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