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Global Supply Chain Volatility Continues to Moderate But Not Inventory and Warehousing Costs

Supply Chain Matters

contraction threshold which is noted as the first time this has occurred since the depths of the global pandemic in 2020. contraction threshold which is noted as the first time this has occurred since the depths of the global pandemic in 2020. Report authors indicated that the September decline was quite broad-based.

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Continued Disruption and Added Cost Inflation Reflected in Key Global Transportation and Logistics Indices in March and Q1 2022

Supply Chain Matters

March and now Q1-2022 data point to continued disruption, added cost inflation and elongated transit times continuing to be manifested in the months ahead. . March and now Q1-2022 data point to continued disruption, added cost inflation and elongated transit times continuing to be manifested in the months ahead. . Global Shipping.

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The Definitive Guide on Produce Season Transportation Impacts

Zipline Logistics

Produce season transportation can have an impact on your freight, even if you do not ship grains, fruits, or vegetables. Peak produce shipping season refers to the time period when the largest volume of fruits and vegetables are harvested and subsequently shipped to markets across the US, impacting truck capacity.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 25-29, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Seattle startup Flexe pulls in $14 million from investors (The Seattle Times). Seattle startup Flexe pulls in $14 million from investors (The Seattle Times). Unlike other drone flights, which require a pilot to be in control of a drone all times, Amazon will also be able to allow one pilot to control multiple autonomous vehicles.

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So You Want to Make the Perfect Logistics Model

Logility

And by debilitating, I mean an enormous analytical time sink — think months. It will not only cost you time to build this “perfect” supply chain model, but it will also imbed imperfections into the very mechanism of the model. You can see three warehouses and almost every warehouse shipped to each destination city.

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Why Tesla’s Gigafactory Is (Still) the Assembly Line of This Century

Elementum

I s it just me, or is it starting to feel a lot like 1913? Keep in mind—cars existed before the Model T, just as electric vehicles have existed for over 100 years. While the exact source of the bottleneck remains unclear, Musk has indicated that an outside supplier responsible for part of the battery's assemblage is to.