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What’s Affecting Your Lead Time?

Unleashed

Manufacturers rely on suppliers and lead times to plan out their production line. Suppliers are a critical part of the supply chain and your final product as a manufacturer. As a result, these variations can directly affect your manufacturing line. As a result, these variations can directly affect your manufacturing line.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Federal Railroad Administration announced a Climate Challenge initiative, which urges railroads and rail equipment manufacturers to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The BrightDrop Zevo 600 has a payload of up to an estimated 2,200 pounds and over 600 cubic feet of cargo area.

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Supply Chain Can Teach Us Much About the Future of Professional  Education

MIT Supply Chain

A recent workshop on data management organized by MIT CTL highlighted this challenge. The innovation opened a new chapter in the story of global trade, and in doing so eliminated countless traditional jobs such as the manual loading and offloading of cargo ships.

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JDA Software’s Annual EMEA Conference, FocusConnect 2013, Kicks Off Today in London, and We Could Not Be More Excited!

BlueYonder

This year’s event takes place at the Sofitel London Heathrow Hotel in the United Kingdom and includes a stellar lineup of speakers — renowned experts, practitioners and market leaders — and will showcase leading practices in supply chain, manufacturing, retail, transportation and pricing excellence.

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23 logistics professionals share the #1 way to reduce logistics costs

6 River Systems

A shift to manufacturing critical goods like pharmaceuticals in the United States would lead to higher production costs, for instance. At houseof, all our products are manufactured in China, which means that every light we sell spends between 6 and 8 weeks sitting on the deck of a boat. ” Importing foreign goods into the U.S.

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Global study reveals increased use of third party logistics providers and outsourced logistics services key to success in emerging markets

Supply Chain Network

Government investment in infrastructure will contribute to attracting global manufacturers and 3PLs to do. Facilitated workshops were. Our relationships go beyond cargo. “Entering any new market requires due diligence and this is more critical when it’s an emerging market. business in emerging markets.”