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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

Some of the major industries and sectors that are affected by the port closure are: Automotive industry: The Port of Baltimore is the largest auto port in the country, handling about 800,000 vehicles per year. The port handles about 10 million tons of farm products per year, mostly to Europe, Asia, and Africa.

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Digital transformation for Africa’s manufacturing and distribution CIO and CFO

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SYSPRO Africa first visited Mombasa Kenya at the main gathering in East Africa of CIOs – CIO 100. Supply Chain effect. Global supply chain disruption affected all countries and for Kenya the most significant effect is that 77% suffered from delays in supply from global and local supply chains.

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Top 5 Aerospace Supply Chain Disruptions of 2023

Resilinc

Despite this growth, Resilinc’s half-year data for 2023 shows that Aerospace is one of the top five industries impacted by supply chain disruptions. 1 Factory Fires Believe it or not, factory fires are the top disruption in aerospace so far this year—with 1250 reported. . #1

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Reshoring to the US and Europe Accelerating, Now Also Serving CO2 Emission Reduction Objectives

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Reshoring to the US and Europe Accelerating, Now Also Serving CO2 Emission Reduction Objectives by Luc Kremers , Vice President – Asia Pacific, BCI Global Reshoring is accelerating as American and European companies want to de-risk their supply chains from geopolitical developments and supply chain disruptions.

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Join BVL International at the North American chapter kickoff on August 12, 2013

Supply Chain View from the Field

Logistics costs play an important role in reducing overall costs; their share of overall revenue is as low as 4 percent and 6 percent in the electronics and automotive industries, respectively. The trend towards increased customer expectations has made it ever more difficult to reduce costs further. 5. Talent shortfalls.

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Supply Chain Disruption and Digitization

Enterra Insights

Automotive, aerospace and medical device industries are increasing the usage of 3D printed components in their products. De Bernardini writes, “The use of drones has already significantly modified the supply chain in areas and markets where transportation was a critical bottleneck.

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Top Considerations Around Reshoring in Today’s Supply Chain

QAD

Had the Auto Supply Chain Prophets podcast been around in the 1980s and 1990s, I like to think that Cathy Fisher of Quistem, Jan Griffiths of Gravitas Detroit and I would have seen this tidal wave of supply chain disruption coming and played a role in safeguarding our industry.