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The Backorder, April 10 2024

Unleashed

US manufacturing activity expands for first time since 2022. The latest ISM Manufacturing PMI report registered an unexpectedly high 50.3% Baltimore bridge disaster adds new stress to global supply chains. Inventory and marketing costs can be insidious parasites, gnawing at your margins. in March – up 2.5% from February.

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Will Warehouses Eventually Go Dark?

Enterra Insights

David Sparkman, head of David Sparkman Consulting, reports, “Empty stores and shopping centers are increasingly being converted into warehouse and e-commerce distribution centers, according to the global industrial real estate firm CBRE, which examined in detail two dozen such projects ranging from southern California to Baltimore.”[2]

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This Week in Logistics News (October 14-18, 2013)

Talking Logistics

BMW to Mazda Imports Slowed as Strike Shuts Baltimore Port ( Bloomberg ). Onshoring: Manufacturers capitalise on goods ‘made in the USA’ ( Financial Times ). Decaying Bridges, Highways Raise Costs for Truckers, Manufacturers ( Wall Street Journal ). Free-Shipping Offers Abound This Holiday Season, According To Shop.Org.

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When the Heavy Hand of Government is Not a Burden

MIT Supply Chain

What is to stop individuals from using other gateways in the region such as Baltimore or Washington DC to enter the country? As the demand for PPE has soared manufacturing capacity has become constrained, and some distributors are citing supply concerns. The State of Ohio, for example, is buffering its PPE inventories, for example.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. Despite two decades of advancement in supply chain technologies, companies are struggling to gain balance at the intersection of operating margin, inventory turns and case fulfillment. The greatest gap is in the design of supplier and manufacturing networks.

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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. Trade-offs include options like an alternate bill of materials, a shift in sourcing, or the move to outsourced manufacturing. If I do an excellent job at safety stock management, my company will have the right levels of inventory.