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Solar panel logistics: tariffs waived for 24 months

Kanban Logistics

But, for the next two years, companies are free to import solar panels from Southeast Asia without fear of tariffs. Transportation services. Such services include drayage , in which your 3PL receives your containers at the port and transports them to its warehouse for storage or to the final destination.

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Peloton’s Supply Chain Strategy Turnabout

Supply Chain Matters

This has been especially the case over the last two plus years with the onset of the global-wide Covid-19 pandemic and with consequent and unprecedented supply and transportation network disruptions. Containers of fitness equipment shipped from Asia were delayed by major port and inland logistics disruptions.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Content Summary: Personal Mover Transports Employees around BMW Plant. To eliminate some of this traveling BMW’s R&D group developed a Personal Mover solution—a one-person means of transport for covering short distances within an operating site. Content Summary: Trucks Platoon Across North Carolina Turnpike.

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Navigating the Future in an Uncertain Political and Regulatory Environment

NC State SCRC

The Supply Chain Resource Cooperative held its bi-annual Industry Partner Meeting in the Talley Student Center at North Carolina State University this past week. He also noted that many companies have a strong focus on globalization, as countries like Yemen, Mynamar, Cote D’Ivoire, and Mongolia have 7-8% growth rates.

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The Reshoring Initiative: 3 Reasons Why American Retailers Are Reshoring U.S. Manufacturing Jobs

GlobalTranz

Apple has traditionally been relying on a supply chain based in East Asia, using Korea to produce memory chips, Japan to produce displays and China to assemble products. In Asia, “Made in the U.S.A.” These benefits help explain why an estimated 20 percent of goods previously sourced in Asia have been reshored in recent years.