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Marketing during Crisis and Recession, Part 1

Enterra Insights

He writes, “For marketers, maybe the easiest course is to batten down the hatches — cut back, stay low, just hope to survive, not fight a seemingly losing battle at a time when they figure consumers don’t want to hear from them. This is the time to really earn your salary as a marketer. gross domestic product).

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A Gloomy Future for the Port of Los Angeles?

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

In June 2016, the Panama Canal will double its capacity, and this capacity expansion will undoubtedly reshape the freight flows around the globe, including those transiting through the Port of Los Angeles (click here for a past blog related to this subject). Guillaume Roels. million worldwide.

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Looking for a Warehouse in North Carolina? Check out our pad

Kanban Logistics

Though less tight than the major markets, capacity can still be hard to come by if you’re looking for a warehouse in North Carolina. You buy or lease the space yourself and spend the time, money, and resources necessary to operate it. Warehouses in North Carolina: what are your options? a 3PL contract warehousing arrangement).

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COVID-19: Bullwhip in Cheese Demand

Operations and Supply Chain Management

A UPS jet at Miami International Airport. UPS has hired tens of thousands of new workers and spent $179 million to speed up delivery times, but the thinner margins add to pressure on Chief Executive Carol Tomé to figure out how to handle the accelerating shift to e-commerce more profitably. By Paul Page. Advertisement. Transportation.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 29 – October 3, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Apparently, he had been hiding in the closet the entire time while the other kids had moved on to other games upstairs. There’s a business lesson here somewhere, I just can’t put my finger on it. Shipping startup Shyp comes to New York and soon Miami (VentureBeat). North American Freight Numbers July 2014.

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Extra capacity takes a bite out of prices

DAT Solutions

Of course, for a lot of trucking companies, the work week can easily last six or seven days, but either way, one thing that the activity on the DAT Load Board told us last week was that pretty much everyone was back to working full time. That extra capacity cut the national van load-to-truck ratio nearly in half.

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Reshoring: New Day, False Dawn, or Something Else?

MIT Supply Chain

Research underway at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics confirms that over recent years many companies have indeed established new manufacturing capacity in the US. It’s an enticing idea that resonates both politically and socially, but is it a trend as its proponents and various surveys claim?