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Only as Good as Your Data: Why Supply Chain Digital Twins Require Real-Time Data Unification

ToolsGroup

Digital Twin Applications For instance, say you’re a manufacturer or distributor. With a digital twin, you could run scenarios to see how a new distribution center would affect your logistical costs, or how fulfilling an order from your warehouse in Pennsylvania would be more efficient than fulfilling from Kansas.

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Wholesale Distribution: Any Way You Want It?

Logility

The groups on my most listened to playlists include Boston, REO, Rush, Kansas, Styx, Van Halen, Eagles, Foreigner and The Police, just to name a few. Wholesalers occupy a difficult supply chain position between retailers and manufacturers who both face their own set of challenges.

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How the USMA is creating an environment of trade certainty

Resilinc

In its first year in force, the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) has 1) helped to seal foreign investment deals in Mexico’s automotive sector, 2) led companies to build new logistics facilities on the border, and 3) added steam to the merger of Kansas City Southern and Canadian National railways. From NAFTA to USMCA.

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Added Evidence of Emerging Regionalization of Global Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

Prediction Ten indicated that: Government incentives tied to industrial policy are leading to the eventual regionalization of component supply and end production capabilities for deemed essential industries. The authors were Laura Alfaro, Harvard Business School, CEPR and NBER , and Davin Chor, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and NBER.

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XX and XY: A Different World in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

There was no line in the bathroom at the Kansas City CLM conference in 2001, but there will be at the CSCMP conference in San Antonio in 2013. It was before the days of sexual harassment policies, but not before sexual harassment. In fact, it will probably be a long line. The stories were poignant. Corporate Social Responsibility.

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[INFOGRAPHIC, REPORT, & INTERACTIVE MAP] The US Manufacturing Workforce & Making it In America

GlobalTranz

While US manufacturing has been hit hard by nearly two decades of policy failures that have damaged its international competitiveness, it remains a vital part of the U.S. The US manufacturing sector employed 12 million workers in 2013, or about 8.8 On average, non-college-educated workers in manufacturing made 10.9

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Can the Latin America and Caribbean Region Use Nearshoring to Become a Supply Chain Hub?

MIT Supply Chain

As companies look to restructure their global supply chains in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and other disruptive forces, the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has an opportunity to become the next manufacturing and logistics hub. Mexico is particularly strong in heavy manufacturing industries, notably, automotive.