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This Week in Logistics News (October 29 – November 4)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Canoo to build battery manufacturing facility in Oklahoma. Logistics industry growth slowed in October. Electric vehicle startup Canoo Inc said on Wednesday it would build a battery manufacturing facility at Pryor in Oklahoma with a capacity of 3,200 Megawatt hours production.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St.

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Qualcomm’s Answer to the Chip Shortage and Digital Transformation Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

In May, I attended the Kinaxis Kinexions event in San Diego, CA. As Brent mentioned in his introduction, it has been a challenging few years for semiconductor manufacturers. Qualcomm turned to more automation in its semiconductor manufacturing. One of the biggest issues was the labor shortage during Covid.

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Does Geography Matter in the Digital Age?

Enterra Insights

Academics from the San Diego State University note, “With the rise of the Internet and the new era of globalization, some have argued that the world is flat — geography is dead.”[2] ”[5] The cost-benefit analysis resulted in many companies moving manufacturing processes to Asia, primarily because labor was cheap.

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Kinaxis Kinexions ’22: Ready. Together.

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week I attended Kinaxis Kinexions ’22 in San Diego, CA. It began with the sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution of necessities for life. can create an agile plan for business and minimize costs (transportation, manufacturing, holding), while maximizing value (revenue and margins).

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One Multinational’s Supply Chain Transformation Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

It started in manufacturing and spread, step by step, to improvements in the way the company runs its supply chain. This manufacturer already has business continuity plans in place. With the addition of the SCRM solution, this manufacturer believes they have achieved mature Control Tower capabilities. A Transformation Journey.

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Logility acquires Halo Business Intelligence to expand advanced analytics

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

provider of collaborative supply chain optimisation and advanced retail planning solutions, has acquired privately-held Halo Business Intelligence, a San Diego-based supplier of advanced analytics and business intelligence solutions for the supply chain market. Logility, Inc.,