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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

Many off-shore manufacturers have returned to the U.S., Those changes, along with high costs of transporting materials and finished goods to and from overseas locations, make the value of reshoring likely to become a compelling financial reality for many manufacturers. Transportation and freight costs are reduced.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper is also home to a leading cancer center (MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper), the only Level II pediatric trauma center in the Delaware Valley (Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper), three urgent care centers, and more than 100 outpatient offices from Southeastern Pennsylvania to the Jersey Shore.

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The Appointment of Hershey’s First CTO

Supply Chain Matters

The key theme often comes down to not only positioning one’s career but also having a deep understanding and appreciation for the linkage of manufacturing and supply chain capability to enabling business transformation needs and outcomes. In this update, we highlight the announcement of the new Chief Technology Officer at the Hershey Company.

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National Logistics Day™ 2022

Enterra Insights

Supply chain management is an overarching concept that links together multiple processes to achieve competitive advantage, while logistics refers to the movement, storage, and flow of goods, services and information within the overall supply chain.” rather than a series of specific functions. But that was not the only support.

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10 Disruptive Issues in the Supply Chain

American Global Logistics

That should inform us of which steps to take to mitigate the risks as the disruptive issues continue to persist. Most recently, on February 21, 2024, cyber criminals attacked Cencora , a drug distributor in Pennsylvania. Re-shoring involves moving manufacturing or production back to a country from which it was previously outsourced.

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The 7 Best Events For Freight Shipping in 2015

GlobalTranz

The 3PL Summit is North America’s largest and most high-level gathering of logistics executives and their manufacturer and retailer supply chain counterparts. FTR Transportation Conference 2015 Indianapolis, Indiana; September 15-17. 2015 Surface Transportation Summit Toronto, Ontario, Canada; October 14.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Readers' choice!

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