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Alexander Graham Bell and the Evolution of Communications

QAD

And the effects of the use of mobile devices and enabled communications on manufacturing, for example, have been staggering. During his funeral, every phone in North America was silenced for one minute to pay tribute to him. The Evolution of Communications in Manufacturing. Who was Alexander Graham Bell? .

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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

Data published at the end of March indicates that for movement of ocean container shipping transit from Asia to North America , the average time had declined to 108 days, upwards of 15.4 The index that tracks ocean container movement from Asia to Western Europe increased to 116 days, reportedly a new record. US Logistics Index.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

That assessment comes as a result of 10 months of subdued demand, inventory de-stocking, and high interest rates, the New Jersey-based company said in its “The GEP Global Supply Chain Volatility Index.” The logistics provider has already deployed 3,000 AMRs globally with over 2,000 in North America.

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Podcast: Scott Donachie and Daniel Robin on the Evolution of Zero Waste

Requis

I saw the struggles a friend of mine had with his door-to-door compost collection business in New Jersey. I did a lot of research and found out that in New Jersey alone there are over 400 dormant landfills, and there’s a huge issue with waste. Maybe 15, 16 years ago it was seen as a wild new frontier.

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An Interview with Reshoring Initiative’s Harry Moser

CH Robinson Transportfolio

I’m speaking, of course, of the growing number of companies who are either making a choice to manufacture in America by never offshoring in the first place or moving manufacturing back to America from overseas. Moser: I’ve spent 45 years involved in the manufacturing industry in one way or another.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

In addition to cutting the need for outsourced manufacturing, this move could give the company a leg up on the competition by making it possible to get products in the hands of consumers faster. Additionally, the company’s manufacturing expertise will enable the reduction of production costs. manufacturing facility in 2014.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 29 – February 4)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act adds a presumption under the US Tariff Act that goods sourced from or produced in Xinjiang—home to many of China’s Uyghur and other Muslim minority populations—are made with forced labor. To import products from the region, companies will have to document that they aren’t sourced from forced labor.