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5 Steps to Address the Rising Geopolitical Risks to Your Supply Chain

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This kind of disruption causes major dislocation in the sources of demand and shifts the centers of gravity for demand, forcing organizations to rethink their supply chain design. Increased shipping lead time: More than 6,000 miles of railroad runs through Russia and connects Eastern China with Western Europe.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 10 – 16)

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The international inbound transportation service is only available to Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) sellers that source or manufacture goods in China, and all cargo must be shipped from Yantian, Shanghai, or Ningbo ports. And with that, I bid you adieu, and let’s move on to this week’s logistics news. Cargo imported into the U.S.

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5 Recommendations towards a Resilient S&OP

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As product flows rapidly shifted and hard baked assumptions about lead times and sourcing locations were put to test, users across many organizations bypassed their planning systems and turned to excel sheets, internal data science teams or non-traditional supply chain vendors who could deliver AI based solutions at a faster turn.

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Supply Chain Design Crosses the Chasm

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On the supply side, material shortages, staffing challenges, and shipping capacity constraints are all happening at the same time. Some companies have taken extreme measures such as chartering private cargo ships to sail around port delays. Taxes and tariffs can be modeled, and tax efficient supply chains can be designed.

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

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Cooper uses this solution to improve their service levels and operational efficiencies. Everything from contrast dye, to tubing, to medical devices with embedded semiconductor chips would suddenly become difficult to source. Last summer a hurricane was coming up through the Gulf and across the Panhandle of Florida.”

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Holiday Supply Chains: Are you prepared?

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At the beginning of June 2022, a 40-foot ocean container cost about $10,000 to ship from southeast Asia to Northern Europe This is compared to about $1,500 for the same route about 2 years ago. Retailers have been used to long lead times over the last two decades, especially for the categories they source from Asia.

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Supply Chain Design: A Tool to Help Maximize Value

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The purpose of data aggregation is, on one hand, to minimize the number of records you’ll be working with and, on the other hand, to reflect critical business patterns: order prioritization, customer segmentation, sourcing logic. However, this model would aggregate the details of the ten thousand SKUs that are stocked and shipped.