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EV Start-Up Rivian Garners Much Needed Financial Lifeline

Supply Chain Matters

This special edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech highlights a major investment related to electric-vehicle start-up Rivian. The arrangement includes joint development of battery powered vehicles and supporting software including providing VW with access to Rivian’s technology.

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Ooh, Scary Stuff, Kids. Tales from the Supply Chain Crypt.

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In fact, National Retail Federation’s annual survey estimates that enthusiastic celebrators will spend an estimated 8.4 You could say the pressure’s on for retailers to deliver the costumes, treats and decorations demanded by the estimated 171 million Americans planning to partake in Halloween festivities. Halloween is big business.

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In Divisive Times, We’re Still United by the Food Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

. “But according to a recent study out of the University of Illinois, even if you have never traveled around the United States, the food you eat (or at least elements of it) certainly has.”[1] ”[1] He reports, “A team from the University of Illinois looked at the 9.5 Challenges facing the food supply chain.

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Walmart’s Notion of Next Generation Online Customer Fulfillment Centers

Supply Chain Matters

In this special edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech , one of others to come, we highlight Walmart’s announced notions of next generation online customer fulfillment centers. The first, located in Joliet, Illinois , will reportedly open this summer.

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Rivian Has Done its Supply Chain Basics Homework

Supply Chain Matters

Rivian Automotive ’s recent report on quarterly financial performance provides evidence that this EV start-up is showing signs that the company has done its homework in supply chain and production operations industry basics. We titled this commentary as learning industry supply chain basics. Having burned through $6.6

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Two Automakers Make Senior Supply Chain and Procurement Executive Leadership Changes

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters readers are well aware that the looking glass for an organization’s overall supply chain performance is intense right now, especially when C-Suite executives feel the heat from investors and board rooms. Rivian Automotive. This facility is being geared to produce upwards of 150,000 vehicles annually.

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Rivian’s Q2 Production and Delivery Performance Impresses Wall Street

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights Rivian Automotive’s reported operational performance in the latest quarter, but at the same time continued challenges in the months to come. Part of Q2’s deliveries involved its contract with online retail platform provider Amazon to supply custom EV parcel vans in the U.S.