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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

Nick Saban shook the college football world when he announced his retirement from Alabama. In all, Saban led Alabama to 6 national titles in a 17-year coaching career at the university. In 2023, Amazon experimented with new logistics strategies and technologies to quickly fulfill and deliver orders, and these changes paid off big.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- October 10 2023

Supply Chain Matters

In this October 10, 2023 2023 edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Technology we provide our capsule highlights of investments announced by supply chain management focused tech providers. The technology start-up secured $30 million in Series A funding in 2022.

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The US Port Congestion and Effects on Supply Chains

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

Over the past two years, supply chains have gone from slightly disrupted to quickly overburdened and remain drastically out of sync today. These delays and backlogs are expected to remain in 2022. The Supply Chain as a System and How Ports Work. The Supply Chain as a System and How Ports Work.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule edition follow-up relative to updating our readers to prior industry supply chain management developments that we have shared on this blog. based Alabama and Georgia production facilities. production worker hourly wages starting in January 2024.

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Contracts, Cancellations, and Closures: Persistent Trends Leave a Pre-Peak Season Logistics Industry on Edge

Intelligent Audit

With peak shipping season just around the corner, the logistics industry is looking forward to a smoother supply chain than previous years have provided. Experts Weigh-In on Peak Season 2022. SupplyChainDive, in their recent analysis of a 2022 study by logistics provider Descartes, reported that, “ U.S. imports totaled 2.53

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Mitigate Supplier Risk with QAD SRM

QAD

Improving collaboration and sharing additional information with suppliers is imperative in order to make sure that your supply chain is resilient , a word that has been incorporated as a top item in many business agendas. For example, Hyundai recently found a supplier utilizing child labor in the state of Alabama.

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Amazon News Cycle Accelerates With a Purpose

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights a series of recent Amazon focused developments that likely have interweaving themes relative to changing business strategies. . With this move, the technology will now be adsorbed into Amazon’s Robotics division, similar to the 2012 acquisition of Kiva Systems. Operations Realignment.