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5 Things Your Carrier Wants with Brian Gibala

The Logistics of Logistics

Louis, MO offering reliable, consistent, quality capacity. LTI has strong density and capabilities in the Midwest and select markets in Georgia, Eastern Pennsylvania, Texas, and Colorado. Their professional drivers and experienced operations team work diligently to deliver value utilizing technology, proven processes, and resilience.

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Demand Planning in VUCA Times with Ali Raza

The Logistics of Logistics

He has managed onshore/offshore/war zone logistics as well as batch, continuous, and discrete manufacturing setups. Ali joined his first tech startup while still an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. His production teams were responsible for billions of dollars of hydrocarbon output to the global economy.

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

Many off-shore manufacturers have returned to the U.S., Those changes, along with high costs of transporting materials and finished goods to and from overseas locations, make the value of reshoring likely to become a compelling financial reality for many manufacturers. Engineering isn’t disconnected from manufacturing.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Home Depot is undergoing a $500 million cost savings push that will see the company reduce its supply chain holding capacity, EVP and CFO Richard McPhail said during a June 13 investor and analyst conference. We are now gradually reducing that holding capacity as transactions normalize.” percent), manufacturing (4.5

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper is also home to a leading cancer center (MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper), the only Level II pediatric trauma center in the Delaware Valley (Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper), three urgent care centers, and more than 100 outpatient offices from Southeastern Pennsylvania to the Jersey Shore.

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10 Disruptive Issues in the Supply Chain

American Global Logistics

Most recently, on February 21, 2024, cyber criminals attacked Cencora , a drug distributor in Pennsylvania. Global Trade: Re-shoring, Near-shoring, and Off-shoring Re-shoring, near-shoring, and offshoring are all terms used to describe the movement of manufacturing or production from one country to another.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

Samsung has two big factories in China while SK Hynix Inc is buying Intel Corp’s NAND flash memory chips manufacturing business in China. chipmaking equipment to factories in China that manufacture advanced NAND chips. he crackdown, if approved, would involve barring the shipment of U.S. Apparently, warehouses are full.