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This Week in Logistics News (November 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

To determine which chains are most vulnerable to carrying excess stock – a problem that raises retailers’ costs – LSEG divided each retailer’s cost of goods sold by the average value of its inventory in the second quarter. Mullin suggested that this was both “a time and a place” and threw down the challenge.

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What is Genuinely New in Supply Chain Management?

Logistics Viewpoints

The UFLPA prohibits goods mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in Xinjiang from entering the U.S. But electronics; industrial and manufactured; and apparel, footwear, and textiles make up the bulk of products detained. In the past year, we have seen two genuinely new developments. Outside of the U.S.,

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PFAS Lawsuits and Legislation: Supply Chain Impact

Resilinc

For decades PFAS chemicals have not only found their way into everyday home products, from skincare to clothes and cookware to carpet, but also into drinking water for entire cities. Lawsuits against PFAS pertain to four main categories of PFAS: Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFFF), food packaging, textiles, and personal care products.

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Hitendra Chaturvedi’s Reality Check

Resilinc

Other industries seeing the most reshoring include transportation equipment; computers and electronic products; electrical equipment, appliances and components; chemicals; plastic and rubber products; wood and paper products; apparel and textiles; fabricated metal products; and machinery. That’s good news.

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What is Multi-Tier and Why to Do It

SupplyShift

In light of recent concerns over forced labor in cotton sourcing, many brands now want to address the issue at the most upstream source (the farm or gin), when in reality it’s the textile and spinning mills where traceability is lost. Cotton is a great example. Often, sustainability risks are buried deep within a company’s supply chain.

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What is Multi-Tier and Why to Do It

SupplyShift

In light of recent concerns over forced labor in cotton sourcing, many brands now want to address the issue at the most upstream source (the farm or gin), when in reality it’s the textile and spinning mills where traceability is lost. Cotton is a great example. Often, sustainability risks are buried deep within a company’s supply chain.

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Added Evidence of Emerging Regionalization of Global Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to two recently published research papers that address evidence of ongoing shifts in global supply component and end production sourcing. The abstract notes that the research paper “ documents that shifts in the pattern of U.S.