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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Last night, I took my 13-year-old son to see the movie Air, which tells the story of how Nike pursued basketball rookie Michael Jordan in 1984 to sign with the company. That move, and Michael Jordan’s incredible talent and business acumen, has turned the Jordan brand into a multi-billion-dollar business.

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Supply chain & logistics webinar

Proxima

Building a Modern Playbook for Supply Chain and Logistics Stardom. Here are some key takeaways from the session about the state of the market: Growth of automation. We have seen a notable increase in the implementation of automation since the last recession. What is the right strategy? Warehousing pressures.

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Industrial IoT: Supporters and Skeptics

Enterra Insights

Jordan Appleson ( @jordanisonfire ), CEO at Hark, explains, “A subset of IoT is the Industrial Internet of Things which refers to creating interconnections between industrial equipment, facilities, personnel and processes. .”[1] If data is the commodity, this is its supply chain.” ”[2].

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The Pullback From China: Will it Be Harder for SMEs?

Logistics Bureau

Whether to relocate supply or manufacturing from China to another low-cost country or switch to a near-shoring or re-shoring strategy is not a decision to take lightly. Nike: The world-famous sportswear brand has been moving manufacturing from China to some African and Southeast Asian countries.

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4 Features of an Improving Supply Chain

MIT Supply Chain

Technology could improve New York’s taxi system. How does a supply chain keep on improving in a changing competitive environment? There is no single answer, but two key elements in the quest for continuous improvement are technology and talent. At the same time, supply chain knowledge is becoming more specialized.

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Customer Segmentation Remains Relevant and Necessary

Enterra Insights

Today you hear a lot about personalization in marketing and customization in manufacturing. After all, customer segmentation can be traced back to the earliest eras of marketing and manufacturing when people intuitively understood that, for the most part, men and women were looking to buy different goods.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods by giving customers more visibility and greater confidence to accurately predict delivery times. As this new global economic system grew, a corresponding supply chain—complex, powerful, virtually unquestioned—became its structural support system.