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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Traditional risk management policy assumes a contraction in growth: the conventional focus is the shutdown and reallocation of supply. A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. In addition, Lucas used inventory as a slush fund to make quarterly earnings. His response?

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Traditional risk management policy assumes a contraction in growth: the conventional focus is the shutdown and reallocation of supply. A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. In addition, Lucas used inventory as a slush fund to make quarterly earnings. His response?

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What Should Supply Chain Management Teams Anticipate in 2023 and Beyond- Part One

Supply Chain Matters

West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with the average wait time for ships to be unloaded reaching 20.8 By Q4, major European manufacturers were exploring alternative sources to produce energy-intensive products such as chemicals and fertilizers, with the U.S. Global manufacturing activity as depicted by the J.P.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

The adjacent Port of Long Beach also saw a significant decline in container volume in March. Long Beach saw a 30 percent decline from 2022 as the port processed 603,878 containers compared with 863,156. The Port of Los Angeles processed 623,233 20-foot-equivalent containers, down 35 percent from last year’s 958,674.

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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. In addition, the terminal operators changed policies for chassis ownership which complicated unloading. Get Good at Inventory Management.

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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 in year-over-year volume. Returning containers is an ongoing issue resulting in some manufacturers investigating a return to break-bulk shipping (container free).