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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. A Decline in Innovation. Ironically, technology innovation is the highest that I have ever seen. In addition, Lucas used inventory as a slush fund to make quarterly earnings. When we discussed it, he hung his head.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. A Decline in Innovation. Ironically, technology innovation is the highest that I have ever seen. In addition, Lucas used inventory as a slush fund to make quarterly earnings. When we discussed it, he hung his head.

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NRF 2022: 4 Big Session Themes from Retail’s Big Show

ToolsGroup

CEO Sumit Singh described the company’s “speed of innovation and quality and longevity of customer care and customer experience” as its North Star amid supply disruptions. As the port of Long Beach continues to suffer blockage and delays, companies are taking a fresh look at alternate ports for supply chain relief.

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Real-Time Visibility: The Key to Navigating Port Congestion

BlueYonder

At the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach alone, this impacts approximately 60,000 containers with cargo worth more than USD 2.6 Luminate Control Tower acquires enterprise data from various source systems (customers, orders, inventory, shipment, etc.) To learn more watch LCT in action.

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Shipping Containers and Supply Chain Snarls: Is There a Way Out?

Enterra Insights

… We flew over the sprawling Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — 40% of all U.S. Like any great innovation, container shipping was so obvious after the fact it is incredible that it had not been implemented earlier.”[5]. Levinson reports, McLean’s innovation was first demonstrated on 26 April 1956.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

Reducing lead times from suppliers can help turn inventory faster, freeing up cash and ultimately satisfying customers. This will make the supplier sluggish to respond to changes and slow moving on innovation. That might mean diverting from Los Angeles/Long Beach to Canada or Mexico. What can you do?

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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

To drive progressive change, I think that we need to rethink supply chain basics and unlearn from the past while driving process innovation. Let’s Start With a Discussion on Inventory. When we look at table 1, we see burgeoning inventories in some industries and extreme shortages in others. The end result? The reason?