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Inventory is Everything with Jeff Flowers

The Logistics of Logistics

Jeff Flowers and Joe Lynch discuss why inventory is everything. In his last role at Bluelinx, Jeff was the General Manager of Metal Products Business Unit which generated $250M in revenue sourcing products from 17 different countries serving 18,000 SKUs to national, regional and local building products retailers. About Jeff Flowers.

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Importance of Digitalisation to Improve Supply Chains: Helping Businesses Navigate Through Supply Chain Disruptions

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Cyber Security and Risk. Cyber security is an ever-growing concern among organizations and consumers. Logistics often involves partnership as well, which creates a challenge for a unified security approach. Logistics often involves partnership as well, which creates a challenge for a unified security approach.

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Next Level Apparel® Takes its Demand and Inventory Planning to the Next Level with the Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform

Logility

based supplier of fashion blanks transforms its demand and inventory management with Logility. One of the leading wholesale producers and sellers of premium quality blank apparel in the United States, Next Level Apparel has implemented the Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform to modernize its demand and inventory planning processes.

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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

This April, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security imposed a $300 million civil penalty against Seagate Technology for selling hard disk drives to Huawei Technologies in violation of the foreign direct product rule. Treasury Department. When it comes to fines, there are two classes of fines.

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What are the best Supply Chain Strategies for 2021

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For example, China and the United States are ranked 1 and 2 respectively for the production of rare earth elements, but this is deceiving as China is producing 5 times the amount of the United States. Reallocating their volumes and splitting between regions means increasing production costs for the security of supply. .

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WEG Joins the Logility Client Community

Logility

WEG chose Logility’s sophisticated demand planning tool to support inventory replenishment on its distribution business in the United States. Founded in 1961, the rapidly growing company now manufactures 19 million electrical motors annually. These factors include, but are not limited to, continuing U.S.

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Lean on Kanban for Mid-Atlantic Drayage

Kanban Logistics

ports, foreign trade zones are secure areas that are under U.S. When the product is ready to formally enter the United States, these duties and taxes will then become due – on the product itself or its imported parts, whichever is lower. We also can perform foreign trade zone (FTZ) services for your imported products.