article thumbnail

Rethinking Defense Supply Chains with Network-Based Command Centers

The Network Effect

He has significant joint experience, and worked from the lowest to highest levels in the US military, with deployments to Southwest Asia, including both Iraq and Afghanistan, three assignments to South Korea, and numerous assignments throughout the continental United States.

article thumbnail

Trump pledges 50% tariff on goods from Brazil

Freight Waves

The latest round of tariff letters sent Wednesday includes Sri Lanka, Algeria, Brunei, Iraq, Libya, Moldova and the Philippines. Robinson, said shippers are revaluating inventory and frontloading needs amid all the ongoing tariff changes. 1 to allow more time for negotiations. Mike Short, president of global forwarding at C.H.

Brazil 103
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Trump Unveils New Tariff Rates, Including 50% Levy on Brazil

Supply Chain Brain

Trump on July 9 also said he would levy a 30% rate on Algeria, Libya, Iraq and Sri Lanka, with 25% duties on products from Brunei and Moldova and a 20% rate on goods from the Philippines. This Trial should not be taking place. It is a Witch Hunt that should end IMMEDIATELY!” Trump wrote in the letter. billion of goods to the U.S.

Brazil 52
article thumbnail

Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Like oil prices, interest rates impact supply chain policies and decisions, especially with regards to inventory. Will interest rates continue to climb in 2016, and if so, what impact will it have on inventory levels?

article thumbnail

Different Strokes for Different Folks (to Yield Better Results?)?

Supply Chain Shaman

The translation of demand in traditional advanced planning systems determines safety stock, but there is a greater opportunity for pharmaceutical companies with an inventory turn level of two, and great demand and supply uncertainty, to determine inventory strategies including buffers, push-pull decoupling points, and postponement.

article thumbnail

Checklist for working capital management

Supply Chain Movement

Working capital management revolves around inventory, debtors and creditors. 10 questions to assess working capital management. Some companies generate cash so quickly that they can even achieve negative working capital. Supply Chain Media and software vendor Slimstock have developed this checklist for working capital management. >>Please

article thumbnail

3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

The 2015 Annual Third Party Logistics Study also reveals that both sides regard themselves as being successful, and shippers are seeing positive results again this year: an average logistics cost reduction of 9%, an average inventory cost reduction of 5% and an average fixed logistics cost reduction of 15%. Guinea-bissau. Isle of Man.