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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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This Week in Logistics News (October 21 – 27)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has embarked on an ambitious Net Zero Roadmap, outlining a comprehensive strategy to slash greenhouse gas emissions at the New York/New Jersey seaport. As a result, retailers now have more bargaining power over suppliers.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 10 – 16)

Logistics Viewpoints

However, the most surprising new addition, at least to me is supply chain (the chain of processes, businesses, etc. by which a commodity is produced and distributed: the companies, materials, and systems involved in manufacturing and delivering goods). And now on to this week’s logistics news. Railroad strike averted.

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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. Chlorine production was burned again in January 2022, when yet another fire damaged a pool supply plant in New Jersey. The cause of this tragedy? Image Source: USA Today.

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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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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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Our Customers on How Automation Accelerates Their Omnichannel Fulfillment Strategies

6 River Systems

Things take a lot longer than usual at every step of the way, whether it’s just sampling and courier packages to fabric moving between countries and then the final product coming to New Jersey. When all this started, we were coming off the Chinese new year in February, they added that extra week of shutdown past that.