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Supply Chain Matters Podcast Episode 23: What Should Supply Chain Leaders Expect in 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Episode Overview Our conversation focuses on the characteristics that make impactful supply chain leaders within continually challenging industry supply chain environments. Not to steal the thunder, the perspective is one of increased supply chain wide efficiencies, reduced costs and added business profitability.

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Snapshot of 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Part Three

Supply Chain Matters

That is likely to motivate supply chain management and procurement teams to want to continue to route shipments from Asia to other U.S. West Coast labor agreement expired in July 2022, there has yet to be a firm timetable for agreement entering into 2023. ports to avoid the risk of a worker slowdowns or a work stoppage.

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Teamsters Labor Union Ratifies UPS Labor Agreement

Supply Chain Matters

Dockworkers, truckers, rail and warehouse workers in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. The Wall Street Journal indicated in May the existence of an atmosphere of rising tensions between companies and workers. In the labor negotiations involving U.S.