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

Supply Chain Shaman

Background on Ocean Transport. 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. I find no agency or entity trying to find a holistic solution to global logistics. We are awash in a sea of self-interest.

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2021 Supply Chain Technology Trends to Watch

Logistics Viewpoints

A company may assume that a supplier’s component built in Wuhan China moves through the port of Shenzhen and takes 22 days on average to reach the port of Long Beach in California. Infor makes the point that a graph database’s ability to infer relationships helps to keep the model up to date.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2018

Talking Logistics

And if you require the support of your technology and 3PL partners to accomplish your initiatives, then you should attend their user conferences and schedule meetings with their senior executives to let them know what’s working well and what improvements they can make to better serve you. Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin?

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The Story Continues…. Let’s Don’t Sugar Coat the Real Issue

Supply Chain Shaman

The people on the ground–my contacts in the 3PL, freight forwarding and transportation industry–know that the labor strife is only a part of the larger story. Unloading at the western ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been an issue for many months. In my interviews, some say August.

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2021 Supply Chain Technology Trends to Watch

Logistics Viewpoints

A company may assume that a supplier’s component built in Wuhan China moves through the port of Shenzhen and takes 22 days on average to reach the port of Long Beach in California. Infor makes the point that a graph database’s ability to infer relationships helps to keep the model up to date.

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The West Coast Bottleneck with Brian Rice

The Logistics of Logistics

Brian is the CEO of Dray Depot , a 3PL out of Chicago area that focuses on the drayage market. Brian is the President and CEO of Dray Depot , a 3PL out of Chicago focusing on the drayage market. While American consumers demand went up, transportation and logistics companies struggled to keep up. About Brian Rice.

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Next-Generation Supply Chain Visibility

Talking Logistics

If end-to-end supply chain visibility has been a goal for so long, why has achieving it been so elusive? Regardless if you’re a carrier, a 3PL or 4PL, or a technology provider, the ‘garbage in /garbage out’ problem is difficult to deal with. Much of the transportation data coming from carriers is inherently flawed.