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3 Capabilities You Need Now to Address Supply Variability

Logility

What do the port of Long Beach, California and the Suez Canal have in common? Water is one obvious answer to that question, but a supply chain professional might say, “recent headline-grabbing sources of supply variability that have disrupted global supply networks.” If it’s not COVID, it’s something else. in today’s markets,?and

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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. Source E2open Shipping Index). He genuinely cared for the organization and prided himself on forging clever strategies. We started the conversation with sourcing. So, we began the discussion. What to do? Drive change.

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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. Source E2open Shipping Index). He genuinely cared for the organization and prided himself on forging clever strategies. We started the conversation with sourcing. So, we began the discussion. What to do? Drive change.

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Real-Time Visibility: The Key to Navigating Port Congestion

BlueYonder

Similarly, big consumer product companies have the brand power and resources to explore costly strategies like shifting production, reformulating products and enlisting backup suppliers. 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

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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

Stord

True Value has already successfully implemented this strategy in the Midwest, and is now bringing it to its Northeast region with this new investment. 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.

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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. seen as a likely alternative.