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2021 Supply Chain Challenges: The Top 5 Lessons Learned + Tips from 11 Industry Experts

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Amongst the issues faced by both businesses and consumers in 2021, supply chain shortages – and the resulting challenges – held strong in the headlines throughout the year. Five Lessons Learned Overcoming 2021’s Supply Chain Challenges. Just how bad were supply chain challenges in 2021? Bad enough to become the subject of memes.

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Report Indicates Workers at Samsung Electronics Seek Pay Bumps in Line with Company Financial Performance

Supply Chain Matters

Citing informed sources, the report indicates that nearly half of its global workforce, from semiconductor engineers to product designers, are seeking the largest base-salary increase in this company’s history. The report notes that in 2021, workers sought a base pay increase of 6.3 percent before both sides agreed to a 4.5

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Prediction- Added Labor Activism Among Industry Supply Chains

Supply Chain Matters

According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal , that level of worker labor activism was nearly eight times the number of workers involved in 2021. With government trade policies favoring more domestic sourcing of deemed strategic supply networks such as semiconductor devices, there are already indications across the U.S.

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Webinar Q&A: Answers to 8 Common Freight Market Questions

CH Robinson Transportfolio

As such, vessels for ocean capacity between Asia and the United States are expected to remain fully booked for most/all of 2021. The first half of 2021 is forecasted to net less than 1% growth in Class 8 trucks. Source: ACT Research April 2021 Freight Forecast report. Q3 2021 on August 11, 2021.

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech July 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Toyota has further announced plans to source an EV battery production facility in the U.S. Seattle -based on-demand warehousing and logistics services provider Flexe announced that the company has raised $119 million in Series D equity funding and has now achieved a $1 billion plus valuation.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Stephen Beard, VP at Flexe!

Supply Chain Game Changer

We put our partner managers in the strategic markets we serve (previously we managed all of these relationships remotely in our Seattle headquarters) and put a proactive sourcing process in place to vet partners prior to client needs being identified in order to speed up our process without sacrificing quality.

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The Year the Ports Stole Christmas? Hopefully Not.

Logistics Viewpoints

Source: Ports of LA, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle-Tacoma. LA and Long Beach account for the majority of west coast port volumes, approximately 75 percent of the volume (LA, Long Beach, Oakland, and Seattle-Tacoma) in September 2021 – the most recent month on record. Yup, LA and Long Beach are Critical.