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This Week in Logistics News (September 5-9, 2016)

Talking Logistics

The kids are back at school, we have air conditioning again, and North Korea tested a nuclear bomb yesterday. “If JDA Powers the Always-on Supply Chain with Latest JDA Manufacturing Planning Release. According to the press release: The new Matternet M2 drone is completely autonomous [and] can transport up to 2 kilograms (4.4

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Harvey’s Impact on the Global Supply Chain: The Role of Analytics

NC State SCRC

Entire warehouses full of products, as well as significant links in the global supply chain could be affected, as well as transport and other nodes. Houston is a center for plastic resin due to the string of refineries in Texas and Louisiana, and the kind of commodities that are impacted include all plastic parts manufactured in the US.

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Sorry, I’m Not Sure: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2018

Talking Logistics

North Korea : The more missiles North Korea launches and tests, the greater the risk for military conflict — or worse. In short, relations between the United States and North Korea have significantly degraded this past year and it doesn’t look like things are going to improve anytime soon.

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I Will Be Wrong Again: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2017

Talking Logistics

companies that move manufacturing operations overseas? If they actually follow through on their promise and oil prices continue to rise next year, how will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in response? Will he impose tariffs on imports from U.S. Will he declare China a currency manipulator ?

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Thoughts on Supply Chain Impacts (After Listening to Trump’s State of the Union)

NC State SCRC

Trump emphasized the growth of manufacturing in the economy. One of the truths of manufacturing is that many operations are increasingly automated, and that robots are increasingly performing many of these jobs , particularly those related to repetitive manufacturing. So will there really be 200,000 manufacturing jobs?