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Shorter Supply Chains are Upending Globalization Patterns

Enterra Insights

Supply chain disruptions during the pandemic highlighted global dependence on Chinese manufacturing — and those dependencies raised serious concerns among China’s trading partners. As supply chain challenges eased and cooler heads prevailed, calls for decoupling decreased but admonitions to de-risk supply chains increased.

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When It Comes to Planning, Please Vote with Ike!

Supply Chain Shaman

Eisenhower was a military officer and statesman. The 34th president of the United States (1953 to 1961.). Over the last decade, the organization grew larger and more political in the journey from regional to global supply chain structures. Expect write-downs, firesales, and rethinking supply chain strategies.

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Eliminate Supply Chain Waste with New Technologies: Our Top Picks

AFFLINK

If you had to make a list of all the concepts that supply chain managers absolutely hate, "waste" would undoubtedly be right at the top. But as it has been true with most other industries over the last decade, the supply chain industry is in the throws of a digital transformation. Drone Technology: The Future Is Here.

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ThroughPut Inc Wins US Air Force Contract to Enhance AI and Data-Driven Operational Command and Control

ThroughPut

Revolutionary AI-based provider to assist US air defense achieve end-to-end supply chain optimization and heightened autopilot accuracy. an industrial artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain pioneer, announces it has been awarded a contract to work with the United States Air Force. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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Drones in Distribution: Thinking Inside the Box

Logistics Bureau

Some pundits are predicting the big advantage of UAVs in the supply chain lies in their use indoors, rather than in sub-500-feet outdoor airspace. Certainly, in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration is taking a very cautious approach to allowing commercial drones into its skies. Don’t Hold Your Breath.

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This Week in Supply Chain News (February 19 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

On March 21, 1864, an ancestor of Biden got in a knife fight with another man in a Union military encampment. The Red Sea crisis impacts global supply Chains GlobalFoundries Receives $1.5 Currently, just 12 percent of chips are made in the United States, with the bulk manufactured in Asia. billion in federal loans.

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

SCMDOJO

In the current era, it is clear that new modes of production are concomitant with new modes of distribution, which advances the field of logistics, the science of physical distribution or even supply chain management. Reminder of Key Definitions – Logistics & Supply Chain Management. and J-P Rodrigue (2004)).