Logility

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In the interactive “ Top Halloween Candy by State ” map, CandyStore.com shows my beloved candy corn is the favorite candy for trick-or-treaters in Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Iowa, Michigan and Alabama. I have to believe dentists see this number as both scary and job security.

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Cathy Roberson

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Even today when one reads the numerous articles about the benefits of manufacturing or assembling in Mexico, most of them highlight Mexico's low-cost labor and, of course, its proximity to the US market. But what does it all mean for those shippers and manufacturers that rely on cross-border trade between the two countries?

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

For example, the Sierra Nevada Brewing company composts its waste into fertilizer for its on-site gardens, diverting 99.8% From assembly floors to office spaces, American manufacturing businesses alone generate an estimated 7.6 Manufacturers have begun meeting customer sustainability demands by re-using their waste.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 25, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights a breaking news development involving Tesla’s existing Nevada based Gigafactory that will be of interest to Automotive EV manufacturers and their supply networks. Tesla Announces Added Investment in Gigafactory Nevada Electric auto maker Tesla has announced a reported $3.6

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AFFLINK

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

With manufacturers using more than 30% of the nation’s energy, corporate sustainability and global warming have been hot issues for years. The company’s 10 million square foot factory in Nevada is 100% powered by renewable resources. These clean energy savings can later be passed on to your consumers. Take Tesla Motors as an example.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 5, 2015

We take a look at how new vehicles are changing the manufacturing game. With its new gigafactory centralizing the manufacturing process, Tesla Motors is one of the largest automotive employer in California. Other automotive manufacturers have announced their intentions of developing their own electric cars. Source: PC-Tablet.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Hybrid powered Class 8 heavy duty tractor designer and manufacturer Nikola Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week. In the declaration filed in bankruptcy court, company CEO Steve Girsky indicated that Nikola has curtailed manufacturing of new trucks as a means to conserve cash ahead of the bankruptcy.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2025

Supply Chain Focused Businesses From a supply chain audience perspective, Panasonic is best known for being the primary battery supplier to Tesla and jointly operates the termed Tesla Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada. A new battery production facility to boost capacity is planned for Kansas.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Today, there are 8 states in the country, including Nevada, California, Michigan, Florida, North Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and Arizona that are allowing the testing of self-driving vehicles on certain roadways.”.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2015

Here are some details from the press release: The Freightliner Inspiration Truck underwent extensive testing before the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles granted it a license to operate on public roads in the state.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 14, 2022

Laura Kelly jointly announced yesterday that the state of Kansas will be a new location for a proposed US-based lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility, pending approval by Panasonic Holdings Corporation Board of Directors. Other battery manufacturers that have elected to invest in U.S. location.

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QAD

APRIL 18, 2024

This deliberation highlights the acute pressure original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) face in meeting near-term objectives, particularly those for 2026, deemed pivotal in the transition towards battery electric vehicles (BEVs). manufacturing prowess and reduce dependency on foreign components, particularly those sourced from China.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 12, 2024

In a prior Supply Chain Matters posting we called attention to a published CNBC report in mid-December indicating that Tesla informed production workers at the company’s gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada that certain set-rate hourly workers will be granted upwards of 10 percent wage increases in early January 2024. up to $34.50 up to $34.50

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AB&R

JANUARY 10, 2019

In addition, several agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) require unique device identifiers (UDI) usually in the form of barcodes to contain information such as manufactured date and lot number to provide traceability. Massachusetts. Mississippi. New Hampsire. New Jersey. New Mexico. North Carolina. North Dakota.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 26, 2022

manufacturing facility somewhere in Oklahoma as well. These developments come five years after Panasonic began production of lithium-ion batteries at Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA) , referred to as Tesla’s Gigafactory , in Sparks, Nevada. . Part of Broader North America Based EV Supply Network Investments.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In India, the national Production Linked Incentive (PLI) is set to encourage domestic EV manufacturing—and this is just a glimpse of the latest policies worldwide. In contrast, the United States has made a significant breakthrough with the discovery of a massive lithium deposit along the Nevada-Oregon border.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 30, 2023

The company established a partnership with Panasonic Energy of North America in 2019 and since then, battery cell production scrap coming from the Tesla Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada (in which Panasonic is the battery cell manufacturer) has been recycled by Redwood. In February of last year, the tech provider announced plans for a $3.5

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

The lithium boom signals a shift in manufacturing and energy in the United States—but the popular mineral is facing some obstacles when it comes to heavy air and rail regulation. manufacturing. Companies like Tesla, using the gigafactory, could source lithium from local suppliers in Nevada for a fully closed supply chain.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 26, 2014

I was chatting with Ben Spilger from our Reno office about this when he said, “I can’t count the number of people I’ve met in Nevada with friends or family at least considering moving to North Dakota.” A neighbor of mine’s relative was recruited to the Bakken to help develop manufactured home communities.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2023

That is not good for retailers and manufacturers, each under the looking glass to reduce not only transportation but also inventory carrying costs. percentage points below the February value of 54.7, percentage points down from the January reading of 57.6.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The takeaway for September was that global manufacturing activity officially fall below the 50.0 As we have noted in our September and Q3 PMI highlights commentary, more manufacturers and retailers will be focused on efforts to offload excess inventories over this final quarter. up from an August reading of 59.7.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2023

billion investment in its existing Gigafactory complex located in Sparks, Nevada. Because of that, Lopez reportedly insisted that Tesla initiate the use of recycled water throughout the planned Monterrey manufacturing complex which CEO Musk reportedly agreed to do. Supply Chain Matters recently highlighted an announced incremental $3.6

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2023

Other insights pointed out in the May LMI report are that the current rate of contraction is strongest in upstream firms, namely manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors, compared to their downstream retail industry counterparts. The reported May value of 47.3 compared to the April value of 50.9,

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 14, 2018

The first major snag was at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Reno, Nevada, where software defects caused robots to fail, meaning that thousands of cells had to be pieced together by hand. Musk’s claim is that once the process is tuned, the company will set a new standard for speed, precision, and scalability in manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

According to the report, Tesla intends to utilize a more environmentally friendly process for producing the battery friendly raw ore and ship that ore by truck or rail to Tesla’s various other battery manufacturing sites. can spur added interest in battery manufacturing circular networks. or by free-trade agreement partners.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2022

The authors specifically make mention of geopolitics along with the ongoing effects of the pandemic impacting many manufacturing regions in China. This index reportedly rose to 3.29 , up from a reading of 2.8 in March, suggesting a worsening of global supply chain conditions. after reaching an all-time high of 76.2 in March.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2023

Implications The June report’s narratives and implications can be viewed from two increasingly different frames of reference, one being the logistics and warehousing services industry, the other being manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers and businesses that are anchored in supply chain cost sensitivities. The June value of 45.6 declined 1.7

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights February global manufacturing and supply chain indices and challenges relative to product demand and supply network imbalance levels in the first quarter of 2022. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. The IHS Markit Manufacturing PMI™ reported a value of 57.3

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The company’s Sparks, Nevada based gigafactory can also produce megapacks. Reportedly, the megapack to be produced in Shanghai can store 3.9 MWh of energy. In 2021, Tesla acquitted a former JC Penny distribution center located in Lathrop, California for the initial production of megapacks.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

The Logistics Managers Index Report® , compiled by researchers at Arizona State University, Colorado State University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rutgers University and the University of Nevada Reno , and in conjunction with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), reported an April 2023 value of 50.9,

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2020

AB InBev partnered with Somnis Bedding , a Belgian mattress manufacturer, to buy and operate a custom-built machine to produce face masks for employees, customers, and partners. Data-driven decision making in beer manufacturing [expert Q&A]. Currently, 850 breweries from 53 countries are participating in the initiative.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Global Production Stabilization In our recently published monthly summary of November’s global PMI reporting , our research arm noted that with one month remaining, the year 2023 will likely be depicted as one of global manufacturing recessionary conditions. The reported November value of 49.4 declined a significant 7.1

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 8, 2022

The overall takeaway from the July data was that global production momentum had begun to stagnate and in some regions such as the Eurozone, Taiwan, and to some extent , certain manufacturing regions of China, PMI values had reached contraction levels. . Global Supply Chain Pressure Index.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 21, 2022

He graduated from the Aircraft Maintenance and Munitions Officer Course in January 1993 as an aircraft maintenance and munitions officer at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

Similarly, factories in areas of Shanghai , Shenzhen and Jalin provinces have had to restrict workers to manufacturing campuses in order to maintain operations. Further, 86 percent of manufacturers indicate disruptions to trucking and shipping networks were impacting their supply chains. US Logistics Index.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 4, 2016

Examples include Apple, Google, Amazon, IBM, and many others, that produce very little, but have contract manufacturers such as Jabil, Flex, and others produce for them. Companies have outsourced so many of their processes, through “Business Process Outsourcing”, that many now just sit as marketing companies.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2022

The Logistics Managers Index Report ®, compiled by researchers at Arizona State University, Colorado State University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rutgers University and the University of Nevada Reno , and in conjunction with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) , reported a May 2022 value of 67.1,

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