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What is Inventory Planning and why should SMBs be doing it?

StockTrim

This includes all modes of shipping via ocean, air, truck and rail (even couriers). Added to that is the recent turmoil in the Ukraine with Russia and Belarus being the agitators. The transportation world is off its axis right now, largely due to the Covid Virus. It's making manual inventory planning extremely difficult.

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Doing Business in Poland

QAD

Poland’s bordering countries include Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine. Its prime location in Europe makes it an ideal location for shipping across Europe or Asia. The country joined NATO in 1999 and later became a member of the EU in 2004. km, about twice the size of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

However, emptying the contents of silos into the holds of ships is only one small part of the problem. As part of the export deal , Vladimir Putin’s forces must maintain a truce with Ukraine in the vicinity of the ports to allow ships to arrive and depart and be guided through mined waters by Ukrainian pilots.

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Petrochemical demand is up and prices are spiking

Resilinc

This period of high prices and margins coincided with—and was partly supported by—supply chain disruptions, including the February 2021 deep freeze on the Texas Gulf Coast and port and shipping congestion in much of the world. Russia and Belarus are large [natural gas] producers, and uncertainty about sanctions has reduced their exports.

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Download now: 3PL Subway Map Europe 2016

Supply Chain Movement

Eyefortransport is currently seeing major consolidation occurring in the shipping industry and expects to see further moves as logistics providers look to take advantage of e-commerce, cross-border trade and shifting global demand. American Samoa. Antarctica. Antigua and Barbuda. Azerbaijan. Bangladesh. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bouvet Island.

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Strategic moves among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

Eyefortransport is currently seeing major consolidation occurring in the shipping industry and expects to see further moves as logistics providers look to take advantage of e-commerce, cross-border trade and shifting global demand. American Samoa. Antarctica. Antigua and Barbuda. Azerbaijan. Bangladesh. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bouvet Island.

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Insurers End War-Risk Cover for Shipping Across Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

Supply Chain Brain

At least 12 of the 13 Protection and Indemnity (P&I) clubs — which cover 90% of the world’s ocean-going ships, including those from the U.K. and the U.S. said they would no longer be able to provide coverage.

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