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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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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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Vaccines are the Utility Needed for the Global Economy

NC State SCRC

In an article in t he Politico, the (somewhat) obvious point is made that the Biden administration is finally recognizing that there is not enough manufacturing capacity in the US to produce booster shots that will be needed to combat the new onslaught of variants coming out of Brazil, the UK, and even New York and California.

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

ivalua

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.

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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).