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You Should Be Worried. Supply Chains Are Not OK. Let’s Lock Arms To Drive Change

Supply Chain Shaman

Global shipping is national news with most stories covering the symptoms. When the ball drops on Times Square to welcome in 2022, the employees at the Port of Long Beach will celebrate moving 9 M TEUs in imports: a 26% increase year-over-year. meters, to accommodate ships with 20 rows of containers) and 15.2

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The Future of Autonomous Supply Chains Part 1: Autonomous Shipping

Logistics Viewpoints

Autonomous supply chains can also help businesses by enabling new business models, such as direct-to-consumer, subscription-based, and circular, and creating new sources of revenue and competitive advantage. Autonomous Shipping Autonomous shipping is the use of self-driving vessels to transport goods and passengers across waterways.

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Logistics Predictions: How Did We Do in 2022 and What Will 2023 Look Like?

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Near the end of 2021, I had the chance to make the early call on Logistics Viewpoints on what 2022 would look like across five major logistics themes. Unlike the folks projecting election results these days, I was a little more accurate and the 2022 projections have set the stage for what will happen in 2023. Figure 1: U.S.

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The Threads of Trade: How Global Events are Reshaping Cotton Logistics with Michael Symonanis

The Logistics of Logistics

With 30+ years in international container shipping, Michael brings a rare dual lens as both a BCO and former ocean carrier. Global Events and Tariffs Significantly Impact Cotton: Geopolitical shifts, economic fluctuations, and tariffs directly reshape cotton logistics strategies, influencing everything from sourcing to transportation costs.

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2024 Supply Chain Predictions – Relative Stability and a Migration to the Mean

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Media sources are filled with prognostication. Furthermore, 2022 peaked out with values above 5, indicating extremely high levels of supply chain volatility. Most notably, item shortages (purple) and stockpiling (red) were large contributors to 2021-2022 volatility. Today these factors appear insignificant.

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Navigating Uncharted Waters: Out of the Fort and Into the Moat

Freightos

This was terrible news for a company now on the hook to ship to kids who were suddenly cooped up and hankering for a fort. As Conor told us in a podcast episode from 2022: Pretty quickly we realized our costs were going to be about 30% higher than we thought. to 0.85 (Source: ShipBob ). The key takeaway? It was time to adapt.

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Boston University’s Sourcing Transformation

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Facilities sourcing and construction contracting were centralized in the procurement department. They add accounting information and where it should be shipped to. She came to BU from a different university in the Boston area in 2022. The post Boston University’s Sourcing Transformation appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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