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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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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. That’s why AOV is an essential metric to improve. in March – up 2.5% from February.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Each time that they are published, the Shaman sighs and chuckles in her little apartment in Baltimore. I also like the work that is happening at the Demand-driven Institute on the redesign of manufacturing to be more demand driven. Over the last decade, the only metric that we have improved is revenue/employee (see below).

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. The greatest gap is in the design of supplier and manufacturing networks. And, in our Digital Manufacturing Study.

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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. Fifty-six percent of manufacturing companies managed the first half of the pandemic well, while 44% struggled.