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US Semiconductor Fab Investments Make Headlines and Concerns

Supply Chain Matters

In January, the Biden Administration announced a $162 million grant to Microchip Technology to increase its production of microcontroller units and other specialty semiconductors involving fabrication facilities in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Gresham, Oregon. fab and associated capabilities.

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

Logistics Viewpoints

If President Joe Biden’s administration proceeds with the move, it could also hurt South Korean memory chip juggernauts Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and SK Hynix Inc, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. he crackdown, if approved, would involve barring the shipment of U.S. s KitchenAid. That’s all for this week.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Dale Rogers, a business professor at Arizona State, gave a presentation with his son Zachary Rogers, a business professor at Colorado State, during which they said that winter-holiday returns in the United States are now worth more than $300 billion a year. “So The field is large and growing. That rarely happens. It’s minimal,” he said. “If

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How to Fulfill Orders When You Don’t Have Enough Product to Meet Demand

MIT Supply Chain

The global shortage of semiconductor chips that is disrupting supply chains in the automotive and consumer electronics industries is forcing chipmakers to decide which customers’ orders to fulfill when product is in short supply.

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Empowering Success: Arena Coach Chloe Stabler Helps Medical Device Companies Embrace eQMS

Arena Solutions

It wasn’t until the implementation of Arena QMS that Chloe’s organization streamlined compliance and realized the benefits of embracing an electronic quality management system (eQMS). Chloe: I’m based in Denver, Colorado. I sat down with Chloe to learn more about her experience as a previous Arena customer.

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Uber Freight: Another “Uber-for-Trucking”?

Freightos

This was digitized when Dial-a-Truck (now called DAT) launched a telephone freight matching service in 1978, followed by an electronic version years later. It maybe be 1,100 trucking miles from the Port of Long Beach to Denver, Colorado, but it’s 7,250 miles by boat first. On-line tracking?) That matters.

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Driverless Trucks, China, COVID and the Future of the Supply Chain

Turvo

Now in Colorado, with baby in tow, we attended a very nice, very quiet, “adults-only” wine tour.which became, for us, an “adults-only with napping baby” wine tour. You could argue with the smartphone has generated new levels of visibility, that Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) have produced a safer experience for those on the road.