IQMS

AUGUST 19, 2022

The labor shifts fueling the manufacturing worker shortage are persistent, leading manufacturers to identify activities and processes they can automate. Hidden supply chain costs. Production schedules are more constrained due to the manufacturing worker shortage, which has a cascading effect on supply chain efficiency and costs.

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Resilinc

APRIL 30, 2024

Discover why experts predict robust storms and how to safeguard your supply chain. The 2024 hurricane season is expected to be extremely active, with multiple forecasts predicting above-average activity, increasing the potential for supply chain disruptions. Resilinc’s data reflects this change.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting we highlight published September 2022 indices of global supply chain volatility ( GSPI ) and US Logistics Index ( LMI ) activity trends along with our view of the implications. The takeaway for September was that global manufacturing activity officially fall below the 50.0

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 22, 2020

supply chains face seasonal risks as the hurricane season begins — and it could be a tough season. Generally, however, technology can help. These catastrophic storms can cause supply chain disruptions due to port and airport closings, flooding of major roads, communication disruptions and power outages.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog continues to highlight for readers specific global and regional supply chain indices that depict both trending production activity levels, as well as supply chain volatility. Newly published indices reflecting global supply chain volatility and U.S.

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Cathy Roberson

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Rethinking supply chains is a reader-supported publication. China was also marketed as a low-cost labor option for many US supply chains twenty to thirty years ago and now we’re seeing similar mentions about Southeast Asian countries. Note Rothe’s emphasis on quick moves. –Mexico border.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

For supply chains to work properly, it’s best to form great supply chain management teams. If you want to improve how your supply chain operates, look no further than your supply chain management team.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

For supply chains to work properly, it’s best to form great supply chain management teams. If you want to improve how your supply chain operates, look no further than your supply chain management team.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Back here on Earth, this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Nikola One Hydrogen-Electric Truck Revealed. Warehouses promised lots of jobs, but robot workforce slows hiring (Los Angeles Times). The Colorado Transportation Department and infrastructure developer Aecom Inc. Journey on. First UPS U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights two February 2023 published indexes of supply chain volatility both reflecting moderation of disruption and higher logistics costs. A further significant change noted was Warehousing Capacity moving back into expansion levels by 10.2

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RFgen

JANUARY 24, 2017

An increase in minimum wage will likely affect many companies supply chains. How will your company adjust its supply chain management strategies to address rising minimum wages? Some companies that aren’t forced to increase their minimum wage may still notice their supply chain costs climb.

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RFgen

JANUARY 24, 2017

An increase in minimum wage will likely affect many companies supply chains. How will your company adjust its supply chain management strategies to address rising minimum wages? Some companies that aren’t forced to increase their minimum wage may still notice their supply chain costs climb.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights two additional May 2022 indicators of supply chain volatility as well as logistics services trending. In an update published earlier this month, we highlighted various quantitative data related to global and regional supply chain PMI indices for May.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 8, 2022

Supply Chain Matters highlights two additional indices of global and US supply chain volatility relative to July 2022 global supply chain activity levels. Global Supply Chain Pressure Index. Warehousing and Inventory metrics continue to buoy the logistics sector.

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BlueYonder

MAY 2, 2017

I’d like to bring your attention to the new whitepaper, “ New Supply Chain Technology Best Practices: The Application of New Technology in the Physical Supply Chain ,” released by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Supply Chain Innovation. Below is a summary of what the whitepaper offers.

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Aera Technology

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The self-driving tractor trailer traversed 120 miles of Colorado’s I-25 while the driver hung out in the sleeper cab , and by all accounts, the ride went smoothly. But it’s the effect that such an innovation has on the supply chains of the future that really boggles the mind. Warehouse 3.0., Warehouse 3.0.,

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Quantum Leap to the Top 10 Supply Chain Skills of the Future. The world will change, technologies will advance, and employees must also develop to ensure they are not only relevant but leading this change. Quantum Leap to the Top 10 Supply Chain Skills of the Future!

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 9, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights important takeaways for supply chain management leaders that stem from trending of the U.S. One of the noteworthy, stated reasons was indications that industry supply chain teams brought forward inventory buying decisions for goods needed to support the upcoming holiday buying season.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Supply Chain Matters features its latest full edition of This Week in Supply Chain Tech , a compilation of funding, partnership and other noteworthy announcements related to supply chain technology support. Our last full edition was published on February 14. Financial terms have not been disclosed.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Logistics is one component of the overall supply chain and is impacted by supply chain changes. At the same time, an effective logistics strategy can improve supply chain management and overall supply chain performance.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives on the release of the U.S. Consequently, the warehousing capacity metric increased a reported 6.8 Similar trends were highlighted in our Supply Chain Matters summary of the May 2023 LMI report. The June value of 45.6 declined 1.7 and a significant 5.3

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights the published November 2023 U.S. What supply chain management and line-of-business teams should take special note of were the stated reasons for November’s significant decline. which is attributable to Q4 holiday sales and the subsequent dips in Warehousing Capacity (+3.6)

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Aera Technology

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The self-driving tractor trailer traversed 120 miles of Colorado’s I-25 while the driver hung out in the sleeper cab , and by all accounts, the ride went smoothly. But it’s the effect that such an innovation has on the supply chains of the future that really boggles the mind. The Benefits of Automation.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights additional developments, evidence and added signs that reinforce that there will be no peak holiday focused surge in transportation and logistics in the latter half of 2023. In the past we would expect to see transportation and warehousing ramping up hiring in late summer ahead of peak season. ”

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights this week’s release of the U.S. In the area of existing warehousing costs, the report points out that while such costs continue to grow, it is expected that as older contracts signed during the boom times between 2020 to 2022 expire, new cheaper rates will be negotiated. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of the March Logistics Manager Index which indicates that U.S. Freight Rates Reach Six Year Low Milestone first appeared on The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group / Supply Chain Management. freight rates have reached their lowest levels in nearly six years. Separate U.S.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 16, 2017

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. This week: Aldi, a grocery store you’ve probably never heard of, says it plans to become the third-largest grocery chain in the U.S. Aldi says it has a plan to become the third-largest grocery chain in the U.S.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 16, 2017

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. This week: Aldi, a grocery store you’ve probably never heard of, says it plans to become the third-largest grocery chain in the U.S. Aldi says it has a plan to become the third-largest grocery chain in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights an added dimension to our monthly summary of global supply chain activity trending and implications. The report authors noted that continued inventory congestion has driven inventory costs, warehousing prices and overall aggregate logistics costs to all-time high levels.

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FLEXE

MAY 25, 2017

Denver, Colorado. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indianapolis is a staple in supply chain operations because of its central location and proximity to Chicago. Short-term” warehousing traditionally meant signing a one-year lease and committing to a service contract. Today, technology exists to make this process on demand. .

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 16, 2018

Colorado had the lowest unemployment rate in May, 2.3 As we’ve noted in previous posts, contingent workers are the folks who come in to work in warehouses, on trucks, and distribution centers, and who keep the packages coming in from all of those Amazon orders you place online. percent, followed by North Dakota, 2.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Thirty-one months of supply chain disruption. Water levels falling in the Rhine, the Loire, and the Colorado River. The Russian invasion of Ukraine stretches into a much longer war resulting in serious disruptions to the food, automotive, and semi-conductor supply chains. The winter offers no relief.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

While many retailers are discounting, canceling orders, and otherwise scrambling to get rid of a glut of goods filling their stores and warehouses, some are embracing their higher inventory levels. While prescriptions are not eligible for the retailer’s one-hour delivery service, they may be eligible for delivery through Walgreens Express.

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EMERGE App

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Penelope makes vegan soaps in Colorado that are friendly to the Earth and animals. Her supply chain is well documented and transparent for all to see. Penelope also provided the following production summary from her accounting software package: Beginning Inventory 0 units. Total Sales 1,300 units.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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. It also has physical stores, which have mirrors.)

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 5, 2022

Supply chain disruptions continue to lead to product shortages around the world. The ongoing pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions, along with the Russia-Ukraine war, limited available supplies of cocoa, edible oil, and other food ingredients.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 13, 2025

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives on the release of the December 2024 U.S. Background In a prior Supply Chain Matters 2024 year-end focused commentary we highlighted December 2024, Q4-2024, and year-end global supply chain assessments as reported by various global wide PMI index reporting.

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