California Inventory Procurement Transportation 
Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 12, 2023
The following will delve into some of the intricate farm-to-table challenges that supply chains face across sourcing, demand planning, procurement and inventory management, transportation, and warehousing. The blackberries you eat today could be from Mexico, and the ones you buy next week could be from California.
GlobalTranz
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Talent shortages, especially limited drivers, will exacerbate the capacity crunch and result in shortages across warehousing and transportation simultaneously.? . Pent-up demand of customers and the strong predictions for another above-average peak season has put a unique burden on truckload and parcel transportation. Focusing on the?
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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
AUGUST 19, 2022
Many companies buy forward inventory ahead of tariffs being implemented. This strategy, however, may incur additional warehousing and storage costs, and firms may experience accounting challenges where an inventory is considered an asset, which could affect cash flow. Operational strategies. Buying forward. The “first-sale” rule.
Freight Plus
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
In today’s state, that transparency does not exist (or rarely exists), and it makes it very difficult for Transportation Operators to budget costs for 2020. As factories have struggled to ramp back up (or even open up), obviously the volume of imports to the US is down significantly-especially into California. About the author: ?. ?Chris
Freight Plus
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
In today’s state, that transparency does not exist (or rarely exists), and it makes it very difficult for Transportation Operators to budget costs for 2020. As factories have struggled to ramp back up (or even open up), obviously the volume of imports to the US is down significantly-especially into California. About the author: ?. ?Chris
Supply Chain Matters
OCTOBER 25, 2022
In our Supply Chain Matters news capsule of September 27, we pointed out that business, supply chain and transportation media had reported this that the cost of shipping a container of goods from China to the U.S. It is becoming clearer that supply chain procurement and logistics teams elected to route import shipments thru either U.S.
Kinaxis
OCTOBER 23, 2015
A massive El Niño occurred in 1997-1998, unleashing record rains in California, deadly tornados in Florida, and a brutal drought in Indonesia, thus landing the term firmly on the radar (no pun intended) of millions of people around the globe. Identify Alternative Transportation Routes. Assess Inventory Positions.
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