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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

Logistics Viewpoints

Let’s say visibility allows you to locate some bolts on a truck in Kansas and learn they will be late because of a raw materials shortage delaying your supplier, because one of their suppliers went bankrupt. Ipsen faced transportation capacity constraints, complications at country borders, and even temporary shutdowns at their own plants.

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Boot Barn Implements Intelligent Warehouse Automation and Control System

Logistics Viewpoints

The company also operates store support and distribution centers in California and Kansas. The Wichita, Kansas facility supports the company’s expanding e-commerce business. Although this amounts to a 50 percent expansion in square footage, the company wanted to double the unit storage capacity in the process. Facility History.

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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

Logistics Viewpoints

She considered where she could get more, factoring in that it was Saturday night at 10:00 pm, she lived alone in Kansas City, and she’d be driving by herself. Ione resolved on the spot to quit and never smoked again, illustrating it is never too late to change.

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Hurricane Harvey - Effects, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

Elementum

Rail freight networks operated by Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific in Texas, USA were heavily disrupted due to Hurricane Harvey, according to reports on Friday, August 25th. refining capacity was knocked offline by Hurricane Harvey.

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COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict Global Supply Chain News Capsule March 23 2022

Supply Chain Matters

based Kansas City Southern , pending full regulatory approvals which is expected sometime this year. Surface Transportation Board on the merger with Kansas City Southern. . Canadian Pacific is the sixth-largest North America freight railway, and in December 2021 completed an agreement to acquire U.S.

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Faceless AI Will Not Relegate the Social Side of Business to the Past

MIT Supply Chain

The Evonik fire destroyed almost half the world’s production capacity for CDT. For example, Kansas-based Invista Inc., the maker of Stainmaster brand carpets, released its contractual claims on capacity for the production of CDT so more could be allocated to the auto industry.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 12-16, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Capacity crisis, rate boom likely in the coming year, experts say (CCJ). Google Express, the tech company’s fast delivery service, expands in Kansas City (Kansas City Star). -bound ship is being held ‘hostage’ (Reuters). Independent Truckers Ask Appeals Court to Bar E-Logs (WSJ – sub. project44 Raises $10.5M