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This Week in Logistics News (April 13 – 19)

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cargo imports in May could hit highest level since last October Transloading is heating up again Hundreds of cargo ships lost propulsion in U.S. Recycled bags will be processed into raw materials that can be used to make things like shipping pallets and outdoor furniture, Walmart said. A third group are labelers.

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Supply Chain Leaders, Chained to Tradition, Face the Whip

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Price of Ocean Shipping Business Continuity. One of my stark realizations this year is that smaller companies are beating larger and often more established companies on growth metrics, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). (In A focus on functional metrics degrades balance sheet performance.

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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

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To accomplish this goal, I ask a cross-functional group to audit the past year. As a group, we drill into root issues. Most companies cannot get to data by customer on orders shipped incomplete to understand root cause analysis. Build an industry peer group and gain insights on major trends. Let’s take an example.

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

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Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. Following a March 2022 surge of Covid-19 in Shanghai, shipping company A.P. Within a week of Russian troops crossing into Ukraine, the benchmark for thermal coal prices reached a record high of $446 per metric ton.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15 – 21)

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Seven years ago, I wrote that Cyberdyne Systems’ Skynet division was working on teleportation capabilities that will eliminate the need to wait for products to ship entirely. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2022, down 0.4 The Seattle-based giant emitted 71.27

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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

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Most of the concepts were new to the team; and while the group had discussed many of the ideas at a high level, they had not been able to take the conceptual ideas into implementation. I asked the group to think of demand-driven concepts as the enabler of customer-centric strategies. Economic Vision of Supply Chain 2030.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 8 – 14)

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It is expected to generate 62,000 megawatt hours annually – reducing approximately 22,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year. That trend will be driven by rising labor costs and a dropping cost of robots, motivating companies to have installed just over 150,000 picking robots by 2030, the UK-based firm forecasted. million workers.