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Real-time Information Increasingly Important for Manufacturers

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Consider a story from Seth Stephens-Davidowitz’s book, Everybody Lies on the topic of big data. This access “reduced the time information travels from Chicago to New Jersey by just four milliseconds, from 17 to 13 milliseconds.” . Manufacturers Thrive on Timely Information. Manufacturers Thrive on Timely Information.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

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The Cooper University Health Care Supply Chain Cooper University Health Care is the leading academic health system in southern New Jersey. Everything from contrast dye, to tubing, to medical devices with embedded semiconductor chips would suddenly become difficult to source.

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NRF 2022: 4 Big Session Themes from Retail’s Big Show

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In his opening keynote address, Target CEO Brian Cornell said the supply chain crisis necessitates greater data transparency and analytics to win in the short term. The new infrastructure bill invests $17 billion for shipping ports , but Ruda maintains “We can’t build our way out of this problem. We need to address the data.”.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 29 – February 4)

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The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act adds a presumption under the US Tariff Act that goods sourced from or produced in Xinjiang—home to many of China’s Uyghur and other Muslim minority populations—are made with forced labor. To import products from the region, companies will have to document that they aren’t sourced from forced labor.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 13 – 19)

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Uber purchased Drizly in a cash-and-stock deal back in 2021. To resolve these allegations, Drizly later agreed to tighten security and limit data collection. The Southern California ports in September, October and November recorded year-over-year increases in containerized imports of between 17% and 31%, according to ports data.

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Alexander Graham Bell and the Evolution of Communications

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And the effects of the use of mobile devices and enabled communications on manufacturing, for example, have been staggering. Martin Cooper made the first cell phone call on April 3, 1973, from midtown Manhattan to Bell Labs in New Jersey, saying something along the lines of “I’m just calling to see if it sounds good on your end.”.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 13 – 19)

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That assessment comes as a result of 10 months of subdued demand, inventory de-stocking, and high interest rates, the New Jersey-based company said in its “The GEP Global Supply Chain Volatility Index.” That index fell below zero in April to -0.04, from 0.32 The audit determined that CPW emitted 1.2