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Shipping Container Shortage–Another Bullwhip Example

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Ikea’s Singapore operations called it a “global transport crisis” and estimates 850 of its 8,500 products are affected by shipment delays. A Chinese worker looks on as a cargo ship is loaded at a port in Qingdao, eastern China’s Shandong province. Compared with last March’s low prices, freight rates from China to the U.S.

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Blockchain and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Enterra Insights

Analysts from Winnesota Regional Transportation assert, “From dispute resolution to administrative efficiency and order tracking, blockchain has the answer to the problems that have been plaguing the transportation industry for decades.”[2] Freight Tracking. Benefits of blockchain technology in the supply chain.