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Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

ToolsGroup

Examples of this include expediting with LTL and air freight and costly in-network transfers from warehouse to warehouse–all of which erode profit margins. One US-based ToolsGroup manufacturing customer sources parts from several Chinese and Italian suppliers.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 2-6, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Amazon patents show flying warehouses that send delivery drones to your door (TechCrunch). Uber Freight Just Launched and Trucking Will Never Be the Same (Inverse). October 2016 North American Freight Numbers. Amazon’s robot army grows by 50 percent (The Seattle Times). million in cash.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 9-13, 2015)

Talking Logistics

December 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Transportation Department pushes tough oil train standards – sources (Reuters). billion of freight under management.” Rand McNally Releases Game-Changing “TND™ Tablet” for Professional Drivers. Chainalytics Introduces FMIQ Monthly Benchmarking Index.

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Logistics Industry’s Slow Economic Comeback Continues in Spite of Challenges

Supply Chain Network

percent last year due to higher costs for taxes, obsolescence, depreciation, and insurance, which were offset by a further drop in the inventory carrying rate and warehousing costs. Inventory carrying costs increased 10.3 Transportation costs were up 10.3 percent compared to an average of 15.4 percent for the other modes combined. “As

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I also worked with a team of leading thinkers in developing the Future of Procurement Report (published by KPMG) , as well as publish the BVL International Global Logistics Trends and Strategies report with a team of leading academics and executives in Europe, China, North and South America, Russia, and India.

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

A growing global warehouse capacity crunch. Given that some Asian and South American countries have no compunction about continuing to do business with Russia, and that many companies in the West have trade relationships in Asia and South America, the sanctions have caught many Western companies’ supply chains in a stranglehold.

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Harvey and Irma’s Effect on the Logistics Industry

GTG Technology Group

Here’s why Houston is so significant to transportation: Most goods transported from Mexico and South America go through Houston before being routed to their end destinations. Steamship lines, transportation companies, railroads and warehouses had to shut down due to high water levels and multiple failures. Sources: [link].

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