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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

The current market trends indicate that the manufacturing industries are poised to reshore back to the United States in a big way. Changing Face of Manufacturing: How and Why US Manufacturing Companies are Looking at Reshoring. Drop in the price of crude oil.

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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

While the push in the back office was for efficiency–larger batch sizes, transactional processing, lower costs of transportation, and labor arbitrage strategies (Many companies outsourced the back office to India.)–the My first thank-you note is to the United States military.

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Looking Ahead: Ukraine Reconstruction

Enterra Insights

Among those organizations are: The Open Society Foundations; the German Marshall Fund of the United States; the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS); the World Bank; the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); the Atlantic Council; Deloitte; the Brookings Institution; the European Commission; and the RAND Corporation. .”

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

That said, there are several high-level trends and factors that will impact supply chain and logistics strategies and operations in 2016: Oil Prices : Just a few years ago, there was plenty of talk about oil prices potentially reaching $300 per barrel and the impact it would have on supply chain and logistics networks and processes (e.g.,

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

NC State SCRC

Companies who have a dedicated team focused on collecting information on the supply market can anticipate shortages, and work to create better category strategies to control costs. In that respect, supply market intelligence becomes one of the most important and critical stepping stones for an effective category strategy.

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Memorial Day 2022

Enterra Insights

Several years ago, Dr. Nicole (Fisher) Roberts ( @nic_fisher ), founder of Health & Human Rights Strategies, wrote, “While honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice during war, Memorial Day also presents an opportunity for Americans to reflect upon the loss of life because of war. … Combat medic in Kosovo and Iraq.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

Because it allows for quicker connections between the East and West coasts, cutting the distance traveled by ship by nearly 13,000 km (from 21,000 km to 8,000 km), the Panama Canal is of particular strategic importance to the United States. But in 1903, the United States-backed Panamanian revolution led to the country's independence.

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