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Editor’s Choice: Aluminum Can Shortage Defines a New Normal for Food Packaging

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Beer and food industries are particularly affected by the shortages of aluminum cans as most customers prefer take-home packaging. This shortage and sudden uptick in demand weren’t something that most can manufacturers were prepared for. Continued scarcity and overbuying have led to a perennial shortage.

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How Manufacturers Can Take Control of Inventory with RFID Technology

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Manufacturers may not think they have much in common with the retail companies beyond producing the products that stock store shelves, but there could be a lot to learn from the latter as the manufacturing headwinds of the last few years carry into 2023. The technology is even making inroads in the NFL to track player performance.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 30 – May 6)

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Well, according to Czinger, a Los Angeles-based boutique hypercar manufacturer, that is about to be a possibility. UPS plans to implement its smart package initiative at 100 facilities in 2022, which will involve using RFID tags on packages to speed up throughput. That being said, would you go over 280 MPH in a car?

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

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Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year.

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Peet’s Coffee and the Roasted Bean Supply Chain

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Founded in Berkeley, California in 1966, Peet’s Coffee touts itself as the original craft coffee. The company has a sourcing team that vets the beans. All their coffee is produced in small batches and roasted at their own LEED Gold certified roasting plant in Almeda California.

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What Kind of Reset Does the Supply Chain Need? Part Two

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Moore , the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, and Max H. Sourcing decisions will be based more upon resilience, rather than merely minimizing costs. They write, “Think in expected values. 2] 1 Corinthians 13:12 [3] Don A.

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Adexa is Recipient of 2023 Top Supply Chain Projects Award

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