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

Supply Chain Shaman

We are not good at inventory management. Inventory Levels Over the Quarters of the Pandemic. Four industries–B2B Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Retail Apparel, and Food Manufacturing–grew inventory during the pandemic. Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago).

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

Supply Chain Shaman

We are not good at inventory management. Inventory Levels Over the Quarters of the Pandemic. Four industries–B2B Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Retail Apparel, and Food Manufacturing–grew inventory during the pandemic. Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago).

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

Supply Chain Shaman

We are not good at inventory management. Inventory Levels Over the Quarters of the Pandemic. Four industries–B2B Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Retail Apparel, and Food Manufacturing–grew inventory during the pandemic. Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago).

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2021 Supply Chain Challenges: The Top 5 Lessons Learned + Tips from 11 Industry Experts

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We then opened a distribution center in Seattle to use their ports up there instead of the ports in Long Beach and Los Angeles, which are extremely backed up. . “We were able to do this because we are a manufacturer of most of our products and this allowed us to bring in products at competitive pricing and quantities.

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You Should Be Worried. Supply Chains Are Not OK. Let’s Lock Arms To Drive Change

Supply Chain Shaman

When the ball drops on Times Square to welcome in 2022, the employees at the Port of Long Beach will celebrate moving 9 M TEUs in imports: a 26% increase year-over-year. Get Good at Inventory Management. Push past cursory analysis of safety stock and embrace the concepts of form and function of inventory.

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Supply Chain Matters COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule Update- October 25 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Reportedly, the queue of container vessels waiting to unload at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach was just four vessels last week, compared to over 100 ships in January. Import volume for Los Angeles and Long Beach ports reportedly declined 18 percent in September, the lowest level since September 2020.

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Warehousing News Roundup: April 8, 2019

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In California, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach released a clean trucks assessment, the next step in their public plan to establish zero-emissions trucking at their facilities by 2035. Macy’s hired its first chief supply chain officer (CSCO) to oversee sourcing, inventory management, distribution, and sustainability.