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As Inventories and Capacity Expansion Grew Too Quickly in 2022, Customers are Forcing Suppliers to Bear the Brunt of Optimistic Forecasts

NC State SCRC

In today’s Wall Street Journal , I was interviewed regarding a case that was just filed against Amazon by a large robotics , claiming that the e-commerce giant backed away from promises made early in the Covid-19 pandemic to support the supplier with millions of dollars in new purchases.

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Solving The Port Problem with Lauren Beagen

The Logistics of Logistics

Lauren is a seasoned maritime attorney and the founder of Squall Strategies , a boutique maritime consulting and legal solutions company and offers a wide range of consulting services to serve a variety of businesses and clients. Lauren Beagen and Joe Lynch discuss solving the port problem. About Lauren Beagen . About Squall Strategies.

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

Enterra Insights

Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, writes, “Today, an estimated 90% of the world’s goods are transported by sea, with 60% of that — including virtually all your imported fruits, gadgets and appliances — packed in large steel containers. These boxes were called ‘Transporters.’

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Join Thousands of Students in MIT’s Digital Supply Chain Classroom

MIT Supply Chain

On September 30, 2014, supply chain education will take a major step into the digital age with the start of SCx, an on-line educational program developed by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) for thousands of professionals across the globe. Transportation Planning, Management, and Execution.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

The Lean journey should focus on straightforward activities that everyone can see and understand because the tools take on a life of their own, causing the operation to lose sight of the simple goal of waste elimination. Reducing lead times from suppliers can help turn inventory faster, freeing up cash and ultimately satisfying customers.

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Omnichannel Fulfillment and the Amazon Effect

Enterra Insights

.”[1] Retailers puzzling over how to counter the Amazon Effect realized their brick-and-mortar stores could be used as fulfillment centers and began to roll out “click-and-collect” capabilities — allowing shoppers to purchase an item online and pick it up in store. Competing in the omnichannel environment. They are: 1.

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Contracts, Cancellations, and Closures: Persistent Trends Leave a Pre-Peak Season Logistics Industry on Edge

Intelligent Audit

However, transportation management experts caution logistics providers not to get too excited. As the logistics industry reexamines capacity challenges ahead of the 2022 holiday shipping season, SupplyChainDive gathered a group of transportation experts to discuss how shippers should prepare for a potentially tough peak season.