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Marijuana Supply Chain: Profits and Headaches

Logistics Viewpoints

These states include Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Washington D.C. Jobs in retail, restaurants, trucking, and warehousing are particularly hard to fill.

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Top 15 Logistics Stories of 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

Unlike some of the other trends articles we have covered at Logistics Viewpoints, which take a deeper dive into technology and application specific trends, this article looked at the top trends executives need to be paying attention to before their strategic planning meetings commence. Top Five Transportation Trends ; Chris Cunnane.

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Marijuana Supply Chain: Profits and Headaches

Logistics Viewpoints

These states include Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Washington D.C. Jobs in retail, restaurants, trucking, and warehousing are particularly hard to fill.

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Accessing Bathrooms

Cathy Roberson

(Source: Reddit ) There’s been a lot of supply chain pains over the years, many of which are well documented – port congestion, capacity issues, rising spot rates, plunging spot rates, hidden fees, maxed out warehouses – just to name a few but one that I’m still trying to wrap my head around is access to bathrooms.

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Seeing Supply Chain Visibility through Different Lenses

Bristlecone

In order to quote a lead time, the customer representative had to follow a long, drawn-out process of calling the tile distributor in the state of Washington and leaving a message – only to finally get back to me the next day to tell me that the shipment might be available around next week. Recently, in a conversation with a leading U.S.

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Low unemployment is great for everyone, right? (Not so much in logistics…)

NC State SCRC

percent), and Washington (4.5 Well actually…no… just ask anyone who works in the logistics sector, especially if they rely on contingent workers. The rates in Arkansas (3.4 percent), California (4.7 percent), Mississippi (4.9 percent), Oregon (3.6 percent) were also at series lows. Isn’t this great!! Stay tuned!

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Find the Money – How a Transportation Spend Diagram Can Help

Talking Logistics

But, before getting lost in the weeds by documenting every word said during an interview, mapping every process in Visio, and designing systems integrations and data flows, there is a simple one-page diagram that you should develop at the beginning of this exercise that will focus your subsequent steps – the Spend Diagram.