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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

Logistics Viewpoints

She considered where she could get more, factoring in that it was Saturday night at 10:00 pm, she lived alone in Kansas City, and she’d be driving by herself. Polly Mitchell-Guthrie is the VP of Industry Outreach and Thought Leadership at Kinaxis , the leader in empowering people to make confident supply chain decisions.

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Trends 2019: Food

Enterra Insights

Understanding how tastes are changing is important for people in the food industry, the hospitality sector, agricultural, and the consumer packaged goods sector. Because so many sectors are interested in how food preferences are changing, predictions about those preferences abound. ”[2]. Plant-based foods. ”[4]. .

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Tomorrow’s Workforce must Embrace Training and Re-skilling

Enterra Insights

Shelly Hagan ( @shellykhagan ) reports, “Men in their prime working years have left the labor force at an astonishing rate and they may never return if the state of the U.S. We will need people with domain knowledge of their industry and business processes to add context to digital applications and guide desired business outcomes.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

According to the annual survey by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Insights & Analytics, nearly 180 million Americans shopped during the five-day holiday shopping period from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday. Overall, industrial rents in the third quarter were up 7.1 million from 145.4 million last year.

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How the USMA is creating an environment of trade certainty

Resilinc

In its first year in force, the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) has 1) helped to seal foreign investment deals in Mexico’s automotive sector, 2) led companies to build new logistics facilities on the border, and 3) added steam to the merger of Kansas City Southern and Canadian National railways. meatpacking and agricultural sectors.