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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

With global cargo lanes clogged, businesses are turning to new ways to deliver goods. Mississippi River cargo traffic near Luling, La. The former wartime airbase handled a record 1,655 international cargo arrivals in 2021, a 73% jump from 2019, and overall tonnage rose 18%. We had a good cargo business before the pandemic.

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What Are the 5 Biggest Supply Chain Issues Today?

Stord

That resulted in bottlenecks, such as the record backlogs at the port of Los Angeles, where container ships waited for weeks to offload cargo. 3 - Centralized Inventory Centralized inventory can be compared to the way we used to access the Internet and store data. Today, we rely on decentralized cloud servers to store our data.

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Brokers Sound Off on New Food Safety Rule

DAT Solutions

“In Keypoint, I can scan the dispatch sheet, bill of lading, temperature recording data, etc., “Brokers carry contingent cargo insurance, but that wouldn’t cover them if someone became seriously ill because of contamination.” He uses DAT Keypoint broker TMS and its document management module.

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Improving Truck Load Optimization with Better Supply Chain Planning

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

The pandemic, followed by surging fuel costs and high inflation, has taken trucking costs to a new level, as indicated by the chart below, showing data through May 2022. Source: Data from the Federal Reserve Board of St. Costs have increased about 60% since before the pandemic. Low Transportation Capacity Utilization.

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The Top Dozen Supply Chain Innovations of All-Time

Operations and Supply Chain Management

The result was terribly inefficient handling on both sides of the equation, poor space utilization on the cargo ships, freight damage, and high logistics costs. P&G first implemented the approach with Schnuck’s Markets in St. Louis, with dramatic results in both lowering inventories while increasing in-stock at retail.