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Top Transportation & Logistics Influencers

The Logistics of Logistics

Original article: Warner’s Top Transportation & Logistics Influencers. In light of the global environment in the past year and a half, we listed the top transportation & logistics influencers. The road hasn’t been easy for the transportation and logistics industries. Martijn is also the host of Does Logistics Matter?

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Breaking- Dave Clark Announces Departure From Flexport

Supply Chain Matters

Since then, other reports including that of The Wall Street Journal have followed. As Supply Chain Matters highlighted in a prior commentary in May , under Clark’s leadership, Flexport acquired the logistics operations assets of online retail platform provider Shopify.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up- February 24 2023

Supply Chain Matters

We noted in our update that while the Boeing 737 program is reportedly stabilizing at a production rate at 31 aircraft per month with plans to ramp production to approximately 50 per month in the 2025/2026 timeframe, the wide body 787 Dreamliner program continues to experience challenges. Labor Department has now reported that U.S.

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Why Taxing Automation is a Bad Idea

Talking Logistics

Earlier this year, the billionaire founder of Microsoft Bill Gates said in an interview with online news journal Quartz that governments should tax companies use of robots to “temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of employment.” But California is not the first to raise this idea. And the silver lining?

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Addressing Labor Shortages in Warehouse and DC Operations

NC State SCRC

A recent story in the Wall Street Journal trumpeted that “ The job market doesn’t get much better than this. The Journal cited the case of one individual who dropped out of high school in the 10th grade and started selling drugs, which eventually led to a lengthy incarceration. economy has added jobs for 100 consecutive months.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

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Transformation of Automotive Industry Supply Networks- Size, Resources and Supply Network Scale Matters

Supply Chain Matters

Founded in 2009, with the vision of becoming the next iteration of producer Tesla in technologically innovative EV design, production and distribution logistics, the company spent its initial years in designing and developing what is today the Rivian RiT electrically powered pick-up truck, and the Rivian RiS sport utility vehicle.