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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. If your transportation spend is unmanaged or is procured operationally, then consider these fundamentals to decide if you should more actively manage it. How much of your spend is committed and under contract, and how much is procured on a spot basis?

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Demystifying Transportation Sourcing – A Practitioner’s View

EC Sourcing Group

9/2/2021 – Guest Blog Post from Kumar Kannan of Procural. If your transportation spend is unmanaged or is procured operationally, then consider these fundamentals to decide if you should more actively manage it. How much of your spend is committed and under contract, and how much is procured on a spot basis?

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Peloton’s Supply Chain Strategy Turnabout

Supply Chain Matters

The company was eventually forced to transport its bikes and equipment by more expensive air freight to avoid congested U.S. According to a published report from Bloomberg , indications are that the plans for the new Ohio production facility are being shelved and the company “ is walking away from in-house production altogether.”.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 1-5, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Here are some excerpts from the article: Amazon already is operating a fleet of 10 Boeing 767 freighters, flying daily out of its air hub in Wilmington, Ohio. And we have more than enough package supply to utilize the 40 planes we’ve procured.”. The video below shows the jet freighter getting painted.

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When Government and Business Global Supply Chain Forces Can Collide

Supply Chain Matters

As an example, specific mention was made of semiconductor producer Intel , with its intention to build a $20 billion semiconductor “ mega site ” consisting of up to eight state-of-the-art production contracted fab and other production facilities in one campus location near Columbus, Ohio. ” Modified U.S. Trade Policy.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Thanks to container prices rising as much as 600%, money that could be used for advertising went to freight companies instead. Intel is investing over $20 billion to build two new chip factories in Ohio. At the end of 2021, ocean freight rates were more than three times what they were throughout 2020. Deloitte Global).

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

SCMDOJO

Also, traditional logistics focuses its attention on activities such as procurement , distribution, maintenance, and inventory management. All road and rail freight duties and regulations regarding the entry of road carriers are under the jurisdiction of the International Chamber of Commerce.