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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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Two Indices of Supply Chain Activity Noting Supply Chain Volatility Trending

Supply Chain Matters

This index complies 27 different variables to include transportation movement and costs, global PMI sub-indexes reflecting delivery times and order backlog. The authors point to the delivery time disruptions occurring in China , an increase in air freight costs from the U.S. after reaching an all-time high of 76.2

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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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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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Digital Transformation Begins with Digital Analytics

Enterra Insights

Warren ( @DrCortneyWarren ), a board-certified clinical psychologist and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, insists, “Humans are masters of self-deception. In fact, we lie to ourselves about just about everything. It underpins most digital transformation efforts.”