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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

There can be surprises that potentially offer a better upside: demand is higher than expected, it is possible to raise prices without affecting demand based on what is happening with competitor products, technology has allowed manufacturing capacity to ramp up faster than expected, etc.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

These plants produce various food products, and these new projects’ technologies can be replicated across a wide range of food and beverage manufacturers. According to its sponsors, the bill’s measures would also help to improve another recent attempt to address the issues, the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022.

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How Supply Chain Will be Affected by Hurricane Harvey

Material Handling & Logistics

Hurricane Harvey has struck a significant blow to the Houston, Texas metro area, home to the sixth largest import terminal in the world, as well as all of the shipping lanes in the Gulf Coast area. For manufacturing, those metrics are new orders, production, employment, supplier deliveries, and inventories of input materials.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, E2open is the largest provider of transportation execution solutions. The supply ecosystem connects over 630,000 manufacturers and suppliers. But, if a company wants to work with a new supplier, and that supplier is in the network, metrics on that carrier also exist.

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E2open Releases Annual Environmental, Social, and Governance Report

E2open

Report outlines approach to corporate purpose and sustainability, and the value it provides to clients’ ESG goals AUSTIN, Texas – Oct. The report covers data and metrics for e2open’s 2022 fiscal year (FY22), March 1, 2021, through February 28, 2022, unless otherwise noted. 10, 2022 – E2open Parent Holdings, Inc.

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New Year’s Resolution #1 for Supply Chain Planners: Improve Performance Measurement

Demand Solutions

When measuring order fill rates, many manufacturer and distributors often fudge the numbers to make them look better than they really are. Make it your New Year’s resolution to start using this more granular metric. Using these three metrics, I’m confident you can vastly improve your measurement of supply chain performance in 2015.

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The Increasing Role of Climate Change in Supply Chain Disruptions

NC State SCRC

The Texas freeze and the power outages brought the world’s largest petrochemical complex to a standstill, forcing more plants in the Gulf of Mexico region to shut down than during Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Gulf Coast export PVC prices were assessed at $1,900 a metric tonne for the week of Sept. However, worse was to come.