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Supply Chain Operations in 2028: Let’s Consult the Crystal Ball

Logistics Bureau

By 2028, robots could be running warehouses and fully automated facilities will be the norm rather than the exception. This weaning away from overseas production will take place in parallel with a growing trend towards moving sources closer to domestic markets. By 2028, offshore production could all but be eradicated.

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Supply Chain Crystal Ball Gazing: Let’s Look Ahead to 2028

Logistics Bureau

So I’ve decided to indulge my craving by daring to speculate about what the supply chain of 2028 might look like. The world may not quite be ready for the latter, but a lot can change physically, economically, scientifically, and politically between now and 2028. It’s Mostly About Automation. Robots Run the Warehouse.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 25 – 31)

Logistics Viewpoints

Industry-wide e-commerce returns skyrocketed during pandemic lockdowns. sending the service and education industries into upheaval. Now, with the industry facing a daunting driver shortage, initiatives to bring in women drivers from other industries have escalated. By 2028, annual U.S. billion parcels last year, 1.1

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Major Commercial Aircraft Industry Supplier Labor Disruption Avoided

Supply Chain Matters

Industry and local business media reports indicate that commercial aircraft fuselage, structural component, and engine pylon supplier SpiritAerosystems has reached a tentative agreement in labor contract renewal talks with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM). All rights reserved.

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6 Manufacturing Trends You Need to Know

Arena Solutions

The engineering/manufacturing sector has a captivating attraction as a lucrative field for starting a career, thanks to technological developments and the exciting possibilities of working in industries like medical devices, electric vehicles (EV), aerospace and defense, consumer electronics, and biotechnology on cutting-edge products.

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Responding to the 2023 IMO GHG Strategy

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This means that further consideration will be required when the Strategy is next revised by the IMO in 2028. Actors should consider inter-industry collaboration to decarbonize multiple intertwined chains. Open source is a way to spread the benefits of these technologies. Identify and activate relevant decarbonisation enablers.

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Top 6 Logistics Software Vendors in the US for you to consider in 2023

Locus

trillion by 2028, clocking a 2.4% It’s a bonanza for industries like retail, e-commerce and other such logistics-based industries, but, as always, growth comes with its share of thorny challenges. The North America logistics market is poised to make the leap from a whopping $1.4 triillion in 2022 to $1.6