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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 end result of the loss of propulsion was the ship crashing into the bridge. mile-long span. An estimated 11.5

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A New Decade: Give Science A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

The second story is about a regional beverage manufacturer. The problem is that the manufacturing lines are 125% utilized, and there is an ongoing struggle to produce tonnage, much less ship the right product from the production lines to customers based on orders. I Want to Build An End-to-End Supply Chain.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

The first step was to charter a research project with the Arizona State University statistics department to analyze which combination of metrics drives the highest market capitalization. The research project analyzed 1200 combinations of 180 metrics for four hundred companies for the period of 2010-2012. The result? The reason?

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Food Trends That Could Have an Impact in 2021

Zipline Logistics

Since much of the previous year in business and elsewhere was defined by a global pandemic, we are left asking what will 2021 look like for food and beverage shippers. These buyers want to continue food and beverage trends in a similar direction that we saw in the latter 2010s. Here are some things to look out for in 2021.

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How Supply Chain Will be Affected by Hurricane Harvey

Material Handling & Logistics

Hurricane Harvey has struck a significant blow to the Houston, Texas metro area, home to the sixth largest import terminal in the world, as well as all of the shipping lanes in the Gulf Coast area. For manufacturing, those metrics are new orders, production, employment, supplier deliveries, and inventories of input materials.

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What is SKU Rationalisation? Process, Benefits, Best Practices

Unleashed

A food and beverage company decides to streamline its product portfolio, based on the nutritional value and environmental impact of its products. Using metrics such as inventory turnover rate , sell-through rate, and gross margin return on investment allows you to monitor your inventory performance more effectively.

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QAD Explore 2019: Vertical Market Round-up

QAD

All operator, production order and equipment transactions are recorded via data lake technology to provide for advanced traceability and operational metrics. Consumer Products and Food & Beverage. Stephen Dombroski – Director, Consumer Products and Food & Beverage.