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Reflections on Hard Hats and Safety Shoes…

Supply Chain Shaman

Instead, many of these teams just accept manufacturing strategy as a constant. I live in West Virginia. The time to service the equipment would be in hours versus days and the amount of inventory to provide the service would be greatly reduced. I envision a greener process with less inventory and lower costs.

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A New Red Wagon?

Supply Chain Shaman

I grew up in the mountains of West Virginia. As shown in Figure 1, the company has been unable to maintain balance on the portfolio of cost and inventory. With a focus on costs, employee productivity improved by 122%; but this large productivity improvement did not translate into the desired margin in improvement.

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Supply Chain: The True Game of Risk

Supply Chain Shaman

When I was a small child growing up in the mountains of West Virginia in the United States, on snowy days, my family would gather around the kitchen table and play board games. Historically, the risk management focus was to reduce insurance costs. A disruption is a failure in cost, quality or customer service.

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The Electric Power Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

The cost of solar, wind, and batteries have declined sharply over the past decade and continue to drop, while the cost of coal has increased, and gas power is relatively flat. Some of these new reactors are “walk away safe” and use passive cooling methods and many are trying to build them as modules in a factory to keep costs down.

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Understanding Inventory Tax: An eCommerce Merchant’s Guide

Ware2Go

Learn which states collect it, its impact on your business, how to reduce it, and how to leverage fulfillment technology to accurately track and control inventory. The states that currently tax inventory are: Arkansas Alaska Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Oklahoma Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia.

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Who’s Catching the Holiday Shopping Fever?

Enterra Insights

The Chamber used its own algorithm, which “takes into account household income, expenses, debt, cost of living, and savings,” to reveal “which states have the ability to splurge on the holidays and which states can’t.”[3] The median household income in West Virginia is $44,097, according to the U.S.

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Freight Volume Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Zipline Logistics

As long as vendors have a two-to-three-day lead time on orders, they will have no issue covering them in most markets at cost. . Shippers should give ample lead time to reduce costs and ensure the order picks up on time. . Increasing lead times will help keep costs in line or near the market rates. .

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