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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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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up

Supply Chain Matters

The move will reportedly increase existing hourly wage rates 25 percent by 2028. Labor Department indicating that warehouses and transportation companies employed 25,000 few workers in October than the year-earlier period. Hyundai Motor America announced this week that the automaker will raise certain U.S.

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FedEx’s Ongoing Business Restructuring Becoming Clearer as to Implications

Supply Chain Matters

Background In prior Supply Chain Matters postings, we have updated readers on global parcel transportation and logistics carrier FedEx’s ongoing business restructuring effort s. Both organizations obviously are measured to differing transport service requirements. involving upwards of 330,000 unionized employees.

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Top Considerations Around Reshoring in Today’s Supply Chain

QAD

Benefits such as low-cost labor, raw materials, cheap transportation, favorable regulations and proximity to suppliers were too good to pass up. That includes front-end forecasting and planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and import/export. through 2028. “A The trouble is, that was then and this is now.

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Major Commercial Aircraft Industry Supplier Labor Disruption Avoided

Supply Chain Matters

Post Pandemic Labor Agreement Come Due This news related to SpiritAerosystems comes in the backdrop of global manufacturers, logistics and transportation services providers that called upon workers to work among extended hours and added health safety environments in order to meet essential services.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech- June 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Touched upon was the joint development of an industry B2B platform for the procurement of pharmaceuticals, drugs and medical supplies enabled by embedded RFID tracking devices. auto makers including Tesla.