Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 8, 2025

It essentially includes the launch of Kinaxis Planning One for Infor CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise, CloudSuite Automotive, and CloudSuite Aerospace and Defense, which integrates Infors planning offerings for discrete manufacturers with the advanced supply chain orchestration solutions from Kinaxis.

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Resilinc

MARCH 6, 2025

and its allies can maintain secure, reliable access to critical materials, pharmaceuticals, and defense manufacturing resources. Transitioning to domestic sourcing is a strategic move to reduce vulnerabilities, but it requires significant investment in U.S. manufacturing capabilities.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 13, 2025

Whether shes hosting charity golf tournaments or hosting Rutgers University Supply Chain students with a tour of the manufacturing facility, Kristina believes business should always be a force for good. Offers national pallet management services, acting as a single source for pallet supply, retrieval, and tracking. Bettaway West, Inc.:

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Precoro

MAY 19, 2025

Recent policies cover sustainable and ethical efforts, such as sustainable sourcing , diversity initiatives, and environmental impact. Unsustainable sourcing. If your company bids on public contracts, sources materials from overseas, or sells products across the country, your procurement process has to meet applicable requirements.

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Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 17, 2025

The newest additions to the list will impact industries sourcing critical minerals, cotton, and polysilicon used in solar modules from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of China. Engage Alternative Sources : Identify and secure new suppliers outside of high-risk regions or entities. billion USD.

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Bristlecone

JUNE 9, 2025

As the trusted partner for AI-first supply chain transformations, we specialize in empowering customers with tech-enabled solutions for planning, sourcing, and logistics. Bristlecone is headquartered in San Jose, California, with locations across North America, Europe, and Asia. It is part of the Mahindra Group.

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Bristlecone

DECEMBER 17, 2024

These services focus on improving operations in functions that have physical assets, such as manufacturing, warehousing and logistics. As the trusted partner for AI-first supply chain transformations, we specialize in empowering customers with tech-enabled solutions for planning, sourcing, and fulfillment.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 12, 2025

Powered by generative AI, this new system harnesses data from dozens of sources, including satellite imagery, road networks, building footprints, customer instructions, information from prior deliveries, and street imagery, to create a comprehensive delivery solution for millions of locations. Quick Response Ups Driver Hires h 2.8

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 23, 2025

In early March, Supply Chain Matters highlighted an announced $27 billion investment from Eli Lilly, billed by this producer as the largest pharmaceutical manufacturing investment in U.S. Shared details indicated: Establishing 1 biomedical research innovation hub in San Diego, California, its second global R&D hub in the US.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This chain’s North America Chief Supply Chain Officer was quickly involved in the news narrative, publicly indicating that the suspect slivered onions were sourced to a single supplier, which was subsequently identified as being California based Taylor Farms. That was a testament to this chain’s supply traceability processes.

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EFT

MAY 26, 2025

Little, little screws' one of many hurdles to US-made iPhones President Donald Trump's bid to bring manufacturing of Apple's iPhone to the United States faces many legal and economic challenges, experts said on Friday, the least of which are the insertion of "little screws" that would need to be automated. Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

So here are some possible scenarios for the energy and process and discrete manufacturing markets. manufacturing and job growth. manufacturers dependent on imported resources. domestic supply chain for key low-carbon products, such as EV batteries and solar panels, remains insufficiently scaled to compete with foreign sources.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 23, 2025

total truck fleet operates in California and Texas alone. The economics of hydrogen trucking are rapidly improving through three parallel developments: Manufacturing scale. at 29% of the total. at 29% of the total. Greater than 20% of the U.S. As major OEMs such as Hyundai and Toyota increase production volumes, truck costs decline.

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Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 17, 2025

Our Ion Channel solution and FACT platform are used by government agencies and contractors to manage open-source software risk and guide priorities for vulnerability identification, security assessments and patching. Recognizing cost and innovation benefits, the EO calls on agencies to better manage their use of open-source software.

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EFT

JULY 1, 2025

Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk "70% of the workers are gone," one farmer said as most of the work is mostly done by immigrants, impacting business. From cans to cartons: how Trump's metals duties affect packages on shelves Andy Russick, who sells canned fruit and tomatoes to top U.S.

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EFT

JUNE 16, 2025

Exclusive: Hyundai Motor has a rare earths stockpile that can last about a year, source says Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) Tariff 'stacking' adds another headache for US importers John Hamer, president of Rodgers Wade Manufacturing in Paris, Texas, makes store fixtures for big retailers like Ross Dress for Less and Ulta Beauty.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Under Biden, tariffs on Chinese EVs were increased to 100%, designed to protect domestic manufacturing. The broader consequence of this policy shift will be rising vehicle prices, declining consumer demand, and restructuring sourcing strategies as automakers seek to mitigate cost increases. auto saleshave adopted Californias rules.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 11, 2025

Container shipping rates have surged nearly 30 percent as ships continue to be diverted from the Red Sea due to attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Zipline This California-based business is transforming healthcare delivery, especially in underdeveloped nations. LeafLink is the right source for any store or brand that wishes to simplify their communications, spend less time on busywork, and expedite their purchasing procedures.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Pandemic demand for goods, and the shifts from a service economy, increased volume in southern California ports where 40% of ocean carriers unload for entry into the United States. The landlocked ports of Southern California are especially problematic. The California landlocked ports struggled with unloading the larger ships.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

In the spring of 2022, Asia/US ocean container rates resumed pre-pandemic levels and congestion eased in November 2022 into California ports. Build in-market sourcing. Rationalize global strategies to focus on building markets based on in-market sourcing. However, variability and global unrest is rising.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 21, 2020

This classification extends to the manufacturing facilities and personnel keeping us fed and supplied. Doing more with less is more critical in manufacturing than ever. They might even find themselves conscripted into manufacturing essential products under the Defense Production Act. Here are a few of them: 1. In 2018, the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

To demonstrate that classic (single time series demand input) optimization and stochastic (multiple time series demand input) optimization can yield substantially different results, we will analyze a network of a company A that has four manufacturing plants that need to service demand in every mainland US state.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 13, 2022

Steve is he Managing Director of Haxlar , an integrated manufacturing solutions provider, delivering design, manufacturing, sourcing, supply chain, and product management services for a wide range of industries. He is an expert in the growth and turnaround of small and medium manufacturing, logistics, and technology businesses.

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 11, 2015

And Whirlpool’s supply chain embodies its brand value of innovation with Six Sigma accuracy and cutting-edge manufacturing processes. The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act went into effect in 2012, applying to all retailers and manufacturers with annual global revenues of more than $100m doing business in California.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 14, 2015

Most manufacturing processes heavily rely on the use of machinery. However, over the course of several months, this slight change in pressure could cause permanent damage to the machine, or it may cause additional problems for other aspects of the manufacturing process. IoT and Machine Functionality.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

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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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 7, 2013

Apple Inc purchases raw materials from various sources then get them shipped to an assembling plant in China. For other distribution channels such as retail stores, direct sales and other distributors, Apple Inc will keep products at Elk Grove, California (where central warehouse and call center are located) and supply products from there.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This manufacturer produces plastic reusable material handling containers and plastic fuel tanks. The Company operates eighteen manufacturing facilities, nine distribution centers located throughout North and Central America. There was limited demand planning that tied back to our actual manufacturing capabilities,” Mr. Baker explained.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2021

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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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full-to-bursting warehouses means fewer orders for manufacturers, which translates into lower levels of business activity and, ultimately, weaker growth. The notice explained that California and Washington would not need to demonstrate that the FMCSA made a mistake when it determined the laws were pre-empted. That’s all for this week.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

In extreme cases, firms simply state that a product comes from one country when, in actual fact, it was manufactured in a country that is impacted by the higher tariff being imposed. Ensuring that any approach is fully compliant in order to avoid having to relocate production or supply sources often takes up a lot of internal resources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Also, warehouse automation excludes similar systems such as airport baggage handling, manufacturing-line automation, and manually driven forklifts. The company’s primary business is the design, manufacture, and installation, and service of material handling equipment and logistics systems. Lee Partners.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Furthermore, this is the case not just with retailers but also wholesalers and manufacturers. Orders for automobiles are backlogged due to upstream manufacturing supply disruptions, most notably, computer chips for vehicles. Source: Descartes Datamyne. So it stretches back up the supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 17, 2021

Port congestion was a top challenge for international shippers for 2021, especially when it came to ports in California. Another large source of disruption was the March blockage of the Ever Given vessel in the Suez Canal, which prevented goods from both entering and exiting the canal. Global ramifications of port congestion.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2022

Well, according to Czinger, a Los Angeles-based boutique hypercar manufacturer, that is about to be a possibility. The company has faced sourcing constraints as a result of the war in Ukraine, causing the company to rely on second sourcing capabilities for its mustard procurement. With vacancy rates as low as 1.6

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

FedEx Express is teaming up with California Bay Area-based Elroy Air, the company building the first end-to-end autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo system. And new data suggests Mexican suppliers are gaining ground as manufacturers reset their supply chains amid growing global disruptions.

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