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Expert Reveals 7 Supply Chain Trends to Watch

Supply Chain Opz

In this article, Professor Burcu Keskin from University of Alabama will share 7 trends that procurement and supply chain management professionals should watch. However, with reduced life cycles, customer-driven innovative products and services have forced supply chains to be flexible and adaptable.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Expert Reveals 7 Supply Chain Trends to Watch

GlobalTranz

As a transportation management third party logistics company, we know at Cerasis that transportation makes up a large portion of the costs and efficiencies of any supply chain. Contact Cerasis if you would like help in more effective transportation management. . 2) Connected supply chains. 4) Management of Complexity.

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Prediction- Added Labor Activism Among Industry Supply Chains

Supply Chain Matters

With government trade policies favoring more domestic sourcing of deemed strategic supply networks such as semiconductor devices, there are already indications across the U.S. plant in Montgomery, Alabama , have signed union cards. and Europe for programs to train workers in specialized technical dimensions of such production.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up

Supply Chain Matters

based Alabama and Georgia production facilities. Labor Department indicating that warehouses and transportation companies employed 25,000 few workers in October than the year-earlier period. Delivery of these innovative vans began in July 2022. Hyundai Motor America announced this week that the automaker will raise certain U.S.

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Homeward Bound: Reshoring's Shaky Momentum

Elementum

In addition to labor costs, cheaper energy sources have become available with the recent boom in shale gas and oil. More than job creation, companies are looking for efficiency in creation and transport. With the cost of labor increasing in China, transportation costs begin to bear heavier on these companies. Sweet Home Alabama.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 10 – 16)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon workers reject unionization in Alabama. In early March, ballots were sent out to nearly 6,000 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama to vote on whether they wanted to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. The prototype also included external lights for what it called “extra flair.”