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5 Reasons to Leave Your 3PL with Shane Hanson

The Logistics of Logistics

Square1 Logistics serves clients across various industries, including food and beverage, consumer goods, and automotive. The company has a network of carriers and warehouses across the United States, allowing for efficient transportation and distribution.

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Ford Motor’s Warning of Added $1 Billion in Supply Chain Costs- Another Signal

Supply Chain Matters

In recent Supply Chain Matters commentaries focused on automotive industry supply networks, we have focused on how the ongoing global wide shortage of semiconductor logic devices continues to provide noteworthy manufacturing, supply chain as well as financial impacts. Background. Broader Industry Perspectives.

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A look at the chip shortage that is battering the auto industry

Resilinc

Resilinc’s EventWatch AI began alerting customers in October about a likely chip shortage and the impact it would have across the high-tech and automotive industries over the coming months. Companies usually factor in the New Year holidays by pre-ordering inventory from companies based in China, Taiwan, and other Asian countries.

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The Single Point of Failure in Supply Chain – Semiconductor Fabrication!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The concept of only bringing in inventory on demand is very compelling when inventories are considered costly, wasteful and cash drains. The automotive industry is renowned for having the envious Just-in-time business model at work. The False Confidence in Historic Supply Chain Design. How could this be?

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Trucker protest over COVID vaccines: an update

Resilinc

If there were any doubts about how thoroughly dependent the United States and Canada are on their trucking fleets and cross-border trade, the truckers’ protests of the past three weeks have made it clear: trucks are the lifeblood of North American commerce. and Canada.

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Glen Raven Meets Their Goals Through a Successful Deployment of Advanced Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

It is a privately-held textile company that successfully navigated the global sourcing/labor arbitrage mania of the last decade and managed to maintain a significant presence in the United States. For him, this meant growing top-line revenue with less supply chain inventory. Leib Oehmig, the CEO of Glen Raven, Inc. had a goal.

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Throwback Thursday

Supply Chain Shaman

This week, as the east coast of the United States was deluged with rain, I basked in beautiful San Diego sun while attending the Logimed USA event. This was WBR’s first event in the United States targeted for the Medical Device Supply Chain Leader. The shift of inventory without the sharing of data is a mistake.