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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

The answers lie in investments in supplier development teams, the simplification of the bill of materials and product platforms, and analytics to forecast requirements based on consumption. The port of Los Angeles shows a slowdown. In addition, the warehouses are full and containers are being used for overflow storage.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The answers lie in investments in supplier development teams, the simplification of the bill of materials and product platforms, and analytics to forecast requirements based on consumption. The port of Los Angeles shows a slowdown. In addition, the warehouses are full and containers are being used for overflow storage.

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Netflix Developing Original Series About Logistics Called “D is for Drones”

Talking Logistics

Just a few years ago, most people had no idea what logistics was about, or they simply equated the term with trucks and warehouses. At a press event last night in Los Angeles, Netflix announced that it’s developing an original series about logistics called D is for Drones that will premiere in early 2016.

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Freight Forwarding Catches Up with Sharm Chelliah

The Logistics of Logistics

Flexport has offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Copenhagen, Vancouver, and Dallas (and expanding rapidly). We have warehouses in Los Angeles, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Chicago. Flexport is #8 on Inc.

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Upstream and Downstream Supply Chain Explained: Don’t Get Caught Without a Paddle

ShipBob

Lockdowns and labor shortages undoubtedly led to supply chain bottlenecks as many warehouses had to be shut down, resulting in fulfillment and distribution processes being upended. Major ports such as the ones in Los Angeles and Long Beach consistently saw massive congestion since they experienced staffing issues.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Logility Acquires Halo Business Intelligence to Expand Advanced Analytics. The nation’s top ports of entry, Los Angeles-Long Beach and New York-New Jersey, in October imported a combined 1,031,127 20-foot-equivalent units…That amounted to a 2.5% In-depot / in-warehouse management. economic output grew at a 3.3%

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Managerial Practice Will Need to Catch up with the Emergence of Real-time Supply Chains

NC State SCRC

Examples include the Tianjin explosion, the tsunami in Japan, and the port closure in Los Angeles. lumped together) from ERP systems, transportation management systems (TMS’s), warehouse management systems (WMS’s), distribution requirement systems (DRP;s) and material requirement planning systems (MRP’s).