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Mindmap for an ethical supply chain

Supply Chain Movement

As a result of the growth in the outsourcing of manufacturing worldwide, ethical problems are also increasing in the supply chain: a catastrophic fire in a contract manufacturer’s overcrowded factory in Bangladesh and recalls of branded products containing harmful substances, to name but a few. Mindmap for an ethical supply chain.

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Four Keys to S&OP Effectiveness

Kinaxis

I heard a colleague once give the following analogy: Imagine a pilot flying from New York to Los Angeles at night without any navigation systems or instruments to measure his location, wind speed, or altitude. Download your own copy here. If those aren’t the right tools for the job, what is? Cross-functional view.

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Robots in Manufacturing: Creating More Efficient Operations & The Future of Manufacturing Jobs

GlobalTranz

Chinese manufacturing always seems to dominate conversations about modern manufacturing. In truth, more than 100 million workers are employed by Chinese manufacturing, reports Carl Pettit of The Stack. Outsourcing of jobs, lower manufacturing costs and continued upheaval in the U.S. Robotics Boost Manufacturing.

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Holiday shopping has started early amid fears over shipping delays

Ware2Go

Seventy-three cargo ships await unloading at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Saturday, a record. It’s been so bad that Ford had to temporarily shut down some manufacturing of its F-150 , the best-selling vehicle in the US, as it looked for more chips. Download the full Marketplace Survey here.

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Moving Logistics Forward from the Great Bottleneck of 2021: Part 1

USC Consulting Group

Shipping containers pile up at the Port of Los Angeles. For more information on SIOP and how it can increase your operations efficiency, download our free eBook, Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning: It’s About Time. Rethink foreign supply chains. Ramp up your hiring.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

The nation’s top ports of entry, Los Angeles-Long Beach and New York-New Jersey, in October imported a combined 1,031,127 20-foot-equivalent units…That amounted to a 2.5% Here are some excerpts from the article: The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that U.S. economic output grew at a 3.3% jump from the same month last year.

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Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR): Where to Find Them Now and in the Future

Veridian Solutions

Download WhitePaper. The combination of autonomous inventory robots and reordering and procurement systems product can aid in knowing when product needs to be returned to the manufacturer for seasonal or vendor-mandated changes. Their applications also extend to picking many more orders than a human could pick in a given time frame.