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The 2022 Chlorine Shortage: Another Year of Poolmageddon

ToolsGroup

Image source: Cape Analytics. Image Source: Nola. Image Source: USA Today. Image source: CNBC. Rockwall, Texas-based Texas Pool Professionals tackled the shortage by stockpiling chlorine tablets and hunting down alternative chemicals for their customers. Image source: Meme Generator.

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Supply Chain Design: A Tool to Help Maximize Value

Logistics Viewpoints

The purpose of data aggregation is, on one hand, to minimize the number of records you’ll be working with and, on the other hand, to reflect critical business patterns: order prioritization, customer segmentation, sourcing logic. If we have 1,000 customers in reality, we might use only ten customers in the model when we aggregate data.

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The New Definition of Supply Chain Agility and Resilience in an Unpredictable World

Logistics Viewpoints

including digital control towers fueled by artificial intelligence (AI), data science and analytics, strategic product segmentation, inventory management, operations intelligence and analysis, strategic sourcing, and effective pricing and promotions management. blockchain), and video-based collaboration/content sharing.

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

Planners in China rely on different data sources and operate with different business practices than those in North America. You need to model the company’s competitors, end consumers, and the demographics of customers in Texas versus New York.” There is no one source that can provide good sustainability data.

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Parade and Turvo Serve Up Digital Transformation for Freight Brokers

Parade

"The integration between the Turvo and the Parade gives freight brokers and third-party logistics companies a modern, cloud-based TMS with automated capacity management for higher margin sourcing and coverage of carriers," said Scott Lang, Chairman and CEO of Turvo. www.turvo.com ).

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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

A multi-enterprise supply chain network platform provides network-based order fulfillment applications and/or advanced network-based supply chain risk analytics. Many-to-many can also refer to many participants in a network accessing many, many sources of event data critical to supply chain operations through a public cloud network.

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Critical Cancer Drugs, Other Life-Saving Medications Face Severe Shortages

Resilinc

According to the report, the increase in shortages has been caused by economic factors, lack of supply chain visibility , and over-reliance on overseas sources for medications and raw materials. For example, in 2021, a major ice storm in Texas resulted in a manufacturing plant closure in Texas.