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TikTok Creating Fulfillment Network in U.S., Globally

Multichannel Merchant

TikTok is looking to create a global logistics infrastructure, including in the U.S., from Seattle to Austin to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Mountain View, CA and Washington, D.C. Cities where the postings are located include 36 in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2018

Talking Logistics

Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Conferences are a great example of peer-to-peer learning in action, but with so many supply chain and logistics conferences available, how do you decide which ones to attend?

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Supply Chain Risk Hits the Big Time

Enterra Insights

A survey of 1,300 senior IT decision-makers and security pros from the US, Canada, UK, Mexico, Australia, Germany, Japan, and Singapore found two-thirds of them reported their organizations had “suffered a supply chain attack in the past year.”[1] ” How big is this concern? . ”[3].

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What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Guest Post by Arun Gupta, PhD

Supply Chain View from the Field

Arun Gupta recently went to a conference of the TPP in Washington, and was invited to share some insights on his visit and what he learned in a guest blog. Gupta, Ph.D. APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional.

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Staying Ahead of Supply Chain Paradigms – LogiSYM September 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

While leadership and supply chain teams around the world are fighting against the impact of Covid-19, trade and technology 2020, prevented rate increases in certain lists and reduced some tariffs, but since the driven tensions between Beijing and Washington, never went away. Companies can clearly make a dent. Organizational models.

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The Upswing of Chinese Logistics Companies

Elementum

by 2020 globally, the logistics industry is booming. Logistics, the complex operation involving the movements of people, facilities, and supplies, is applied in every industry from manufacturing to retail to trade. The global logistics market is expected to grow from US $8.1T Expeditors International of Washington Inc.,

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Trump’s China Cold War Yields Hard Look at Global Supply Chains

Material Handling & Logistics

This is the struggle of our times," said Paul Triolo, head of global technology policy analysis at Eurasia Group in Washington. The push by some in Washington for a decoupling has consequences for boardrooms far beyond the U.S. And there will be lots of collateral damage.". s largest supplier of electrolytes to domestic battery makers.

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