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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 17, 2023)

Talking Logistics

24 years ago today, I started a new job. I arrived at the office expecting to start a research project related to the semiconductor industry (where I had spent most of my career at that point, and what I had been hired to do). Instead, I was told that I would do a market study.

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Investing in regional supply chains

Resilinc

In a June 2021 Harvard Business Review article and in this blog , Resilinc CEO Bindiya Vakil and her co-authors Tom Linton and Dale Rogers argued that more robust and sophisticated Pan-American supply networks are critical destinations on the roadmap to drive greater resilience, sustainability and agility in U.S. supply chains. now depends.

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Webinar Recap: The Case for a Pan-American Manufacturing Ecosystem

Resilinc

The common theme of the last year-and-a-half has been how to redesign supply chains for greater sustainability and resilience,” said Vakil. Closer proximity—as compared to Asia—alone could reduce shipping times and inventory costs, as well as the greenhouse gas emissions from ocean and air freight, according to the three.

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Looking Back on a Fulfilling Career in the Transportation Industry

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Mark Bogucki, our general manager in Kansas City, recently announced he would retire at the end of 2015. Other acted as agents for common carriers—they would find freight for common carriers, both regular and irregular, and then trip lease it to owner operators if the owning carrier did not have capacity. Since joining C.H.