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Excessive heat hits the food supply chain

Resilinc

Even though we’re only one week into summer 2022, excessive heat is already damaging agricultural production across the globe, from mangos and wheat in India to cattle in Kansas and chilis in New Mexico. In Europe, extreme heat has hammered much of the continent since mid-June, breaking records in France.

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Added Evidence of Emerging Regionalization of Global Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

The Looming Great Allocation In conjunction with the Jackson Hole Symposium held last week and organized by The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City , a research paper titled: Global Supply Chains: The Looming “Great Reallocation ” was released.

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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Logistics Viewpoints

The long-term agreement will initially enroll corn, soy and wheat farmers across Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Nebraska, with the opportunity for future expansion. This is particularly true where there are “small holder farmers” in countries like India. PepsiCo must work with implementers. “We I asked Mr.

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The Guinness Book of World Records for 3D Printing!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The world’s lightest structure was built by Dong Lin from Kansas State University. 3D Spectra Technologies is proud to be a part of the revolutionary 3D printing technology and spearheading it in India. Developed in 2016, it was officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the “least dense 3D printed structure.”.

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Top 5 Aerospace Supply Chain Disruptions of 2023

Resilinc

On June 25, around 6,000 workers at Spirit AeroSystems went on strike in Kansas. From August 25 to September 9, Timken India plans to temporarily close a plant in Jharkhand, India, for the opposite reason—low demand. Timken India provides bearing products and services to aerospace, automotive, and railways.

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Your Trade War Survival Secret: Sales and Operations Planning – Part 1

DynaSys

Harley-Davidson is a high profile example of a company shifting production to low-cost manufacturing countries from the US in response to a tariff battle when it moved production from Kansas to India & Brazil to continue to be able to sell competitively into the EU after that market’s retaliatory tariffs. . Distribution Planning.