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Real-time Information Increasingly Important for Manufacturers

QAD

Digital transformation strategies are delivering more responsive solutions and real-time information to change the way organizations operate. This access “reduced the time information travels from Chicago to New Jersey by just four milliseconds, from 17 to 13 milliseconds.” . Manufacturers Thrive on Timely Information.

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The 2022 Chlorine Shortage: Another Year of Poolmageddon

ToolsGroup

A combo of pandemic-related increased demand, and the tragic destruction of a key chlorine manufacturer have led to 2022’s swimming pool chlorine shortage. Image source: Cape Analytics. Image Source: Nola. Chlorine production was burned again in January 2022, when yet another fire damaged a pool supply plant in New Jersey.

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NRF 2022: 4 Big Session Themes from Retail’s Big Show

ToolsGroup

Download guide: 8 Winning Strategies to Combat Supply Shortages ? The new infrastructure bill invests $17 billion for shipping ports , but Ruda maintains “We can’t build our way out of this problem. New Era of Sustainability. Target will provide alternatives. Consumers vote with their wallets and footsteps.”

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This Week in Logistics News (May 27 – June 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. manufacturers re-evaluating their reliance on China. manufacturers re-evaluating their reliance on China. Walmart added new functionality that lets sellers purchase shipping labels for domestic orders on its marketplace.

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Maybe its time for consumers to consume less…Market Satiation as a new supply chain strategy

NC State SCRC

The current set of supply chain disruptions is being set off by a combination of COVID cases and energy disruptions in manufacturing hubs around the world, labor shortages, lack of capital infrastructure investment, misaligned transportation resources ( a lack of containers, ships, and trucks), and surges in consumer demand.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up- August 17 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Added Manufacturing Disruption in China. Last week after a series of manufacturing and product design flaws impacted the deliveries of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner wide-body aircraft since 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cleared the way to resume airline deliveries of previously ordered aircraft.

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The Real Winner at the 2022 World Cup? Supply Chain.

BlueYonder

million and a land area of nearly 4,500 square miles — about half the size of New Jersey — Qatar is about to become an epicenter of global logistics. As conditions inevitably change, collaborative scenario planning resembles the half-time meeting in the locker room where everyone revisits and updates the strategy.