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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Retailers like Amazon are chartering private cargo ships, making their own containers, and leasing planes to bypass supply chain disruptions like long wait times for dock space and workers. Retailers short on storage space are buying warehouses rather than waiting for supply chains to straighten out. Forbes ).

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Balance and Segmentation – What the Election Can Teach Supply Chain

Kinaxis

Running polls and media out of only New York and Los Angeles would not tell us what the segmented customers want. “If If your supply chain was set up to service “blue” customers only, how much cash would you lose or revenue would you miss by using “blue” supply chain policies across the entire Figure 4 Map? “.