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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore being struck by the Dali and collapsing is an unpredictable disruption to the supply chains of several industries including automobiles, coal, and agricultural machinery. The port handles about 11 million tons of cargo per year, including automobiles, containers, coal, and farm products.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the early morning hours of April 26, at approximately 1:35am, a cargo ship leaving Baltimore Harbor struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long The bridge is part of the heavily traveled Interstate 695 linking Baltimore to Washington, D.C. mile-long span. An estimated 11.5

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This Week in Logistics News (April 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

distribution centers over the next five years. Baltimore is not included in Global Port Tracker’s national totals because its data is reported later than other ports. It plans to bring robots to Mississauga and Cornwall, Ont.,

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When The Wheels Fall Off

Supply Chain Shaman

For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. The algorithms, tuned for enterprise data within functions, helped organizational leaders to improve their functional outputs. For example, Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) has very little to do with Transportation Planning (TMS).

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Vaccines are the Utility Needed for the Global Economy

NC State SCRC

The problem should be restated as “how do we ensure vaccines are available for the world, so that we can eliminate the likelihood of variants emerging that will render the current vaccines being distributed ineffective?” ” Variants are going to continue to emerge until we can eliminate COVID globally through vaccination.

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Will Warehouses Eventually Go Dark?

Enterra Insights

1] “The explosive growth of e-commerce and the competition among retailers to deliver goods quickly,” she writes, “is running hard up against the scarcity of warehousing near population centers, triggering a land grab for distribution space that experts say is accelerating.” The Internet of Things and Big Data.

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If You Are Not a Step Ahead, You Are Behind.

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A couple of weeks ago, ISM and Spend Matters had their first Eprocurement Technology Summit in Baltimore, Maryland on the Inner Harbor. Big data analytics- Being able to run more inquiries faster, gain better decision guidance, and having the ability to look at total cost vs. total value in real time.