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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Brick-and-mortar stores also allow shoppers to return unwanted purchases. 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

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

Logistics Viewpoints

Based on the stock’s value after the announcement, that would represent a $61 million purchase worth about 10 percent of the company. Samsung has two big factories in China while SK Hynix Inc is buying Intel Corp’s NAND flash memory chips manufacturing business in China. s KitchenAid. That’s all for this week.

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US Semiconductor Fab Investments Make Headlines and Concerns

Supply Chain Matters

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has specifically indicated that the plans for Columbus, Ohio complex include being: “ t he largest AI chip manufacturing site in the world.” Noted in interviews with sources is a realization that facility construction costs are four to five times higher than what they would be Asia. sourced capability.

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Why a Product-Centric Approach to Quality Matters

Arena Solutions

Michael has over 30 years of experience bringing medical devices, clean technology, consumer electronics, and industrial products to market. And what that often means is finding a second source, finding other options, another alternative. There’s joint development in manufacturing where there’s some combination of both.

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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. Interestingly, we all had significant experience in the freight, logistics, sourcing, and supply chain world. Hot topics included the rise of driverless trucks.