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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. Companies need to think about how they are going to address this challenge. limit two cartons of eggs”).

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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 Workers sorted units by model and year of manufacture. That rarely happens.

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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. chipmaking equipment to factories in China that manufacture advanced NAND chips. s KitchenAid.

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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.” There are further plans for added investment in an advanced lithography innovation hub at Intel’s existing Oregon facility. It’s not going to come back in three to five years.”

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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. How would sourcing and transportation patterns change if manufacturing shifted away from China? Predictably, and last-minute, childcare for our 6-month-old fell through.

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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. This is where good specifications, good records, good documentations, manufacturable designs, all are needed and come into place. Our second panelist is Michael Keer. And from a risk perspective.

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