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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. If all your inventory is in my building in St. Louis and St. Louis gets wiped out by a tornado or has a snowstorm, I can't do anything for you,” explains Edgard. “If

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Improving Truck Load Optimization with Better Supply Chain Planning

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

Source: Data from the Federal Reserve Board of St. There’s also the problem of empty miles (trucks driving with no cargo after completing a delivery), with an estimated 35% of truck miles being empty in the U.S. Costs have increased about 60% since before the pandemic. Low Transportation Capacity Utilization.