Supply Chain Shaman
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
On February 2, in a small town in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania on Gobbler’s Knob, an unsuspecting furry Groundhog is plucked from a burrow to predict the weather for the rest of the winter. When the groundhog sees his shadow, the belief is that North America will experience an additional six weeks of winter.
The Logistics of Logistics
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Chuck started his career as a United States Air Force instructor pilot, first teaching young men and women to fly at undergraduate pilot training in Lubbock Texas, and then flying the C-130 Hercules in Frankfurt, Germany and Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. Chuck is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy. About HDVI.
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Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 29, 2021
Shipt same-day delivery, meanwhile, will be available for a wider range of products across Target’s assortment, including apparel and accessories, Ulta Beauty items, electronics, toys, and now adult beverages. Last week I highlighted that many toy manufacturers were looking to maximize holiday profits by selling more “ squishy ” toys.
Operations and Supply Chain Management
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
At the conference, I joined a roundtable led by Nikos Papaioannou, who manages returns of Amazon’s house-brand electronic devices, including Kindles, Echos and Blink home-security systems. Most online shoppers assume that items they return go back into regular inventory, to be sold again at full price. That rarely happens.
Supply Chain Matters
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Upwards of 4,000 UAW workers at Volvo’s Mack truck manufacturing facilities in Florida, Maryland and Pennsylvania went on strike after rejecting a tentative five year contract agreement that included a reported 19 percent wage increase. Parallel Developments Other parallel developments have occurred since our last update.
Supply Chain Network
OCTOBER 3, 2011
In addition to documenting the evolution of the third-party logistics market, this year’s report also provides an in-depth analysis of logistics operations in emerging markets and the electronics industry as well as talent management to address the skills shortage in the logistics industry. Because electronics. said Dr. C.
GlobalTranz
JUNE 23, 2015
Foxconn, for example, announced plans to reshore in Pennsylvania, investing $40 million for a mostly automated plant. NCR (electronics), Boeing aircraft, Flextronics, Farouk Systems (hair products), and Made in America (office furniture) also all reshored numerous jobs back to the U.S. Computers and electronics brought back 3,483.
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