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Reflections on Hard Hats and Safety Shoes…

Supply Chain Shaman

Manufacturing teams used to manage the supply chain group. Today, in most organizations, the supply chain team manages manufacturing. The irony is that fewer and fewer people within the supply chain team understand manufacturing. Instead, many of these teams just accept manufacturing strategy as a constant.

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Warehousing News Roundup: February 18, 2019

Stord

Import fees on American cars are a problem for many companies, but Tesla’s lack of manufacturing capacity in China makes it unable to shift production to within the country to mitigate penalties. Tesla is scrambling to move Model 3 sedans to China , anticipating imminent tariffs on American cars that would make its product more expensive.

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XX and XY: A Different World in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

It is such a very different landscape than the green mountains of my farm in West Virginia or my city streets in Philadelphia. In preparation, we are finishing up research on supply chain planning excellence, big data and supply chain, supply chain talent, and digital manufacturing. It appears SO barren from my window in seat 4D.

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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

A recent Journal of Commerce survey found more than 65 percent of shippers surveyed said they planned to ship less cargo through U.S. The overreach of the recent West Coast gridlock is impacting the ports’ Eastern counterparts as manufacturers from East and West Asia are opting for longer routes to the U.S.’s

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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

A recent Journal of Commerce survey found more than 65 percent of shippers surveyed said they planned to ship less cargo through U.S. The overreach of the recent West Coast gridlock is impacting the ports’ Eastern counterparts as manufacturers from East and West Asia are opting for longer routes to the U.S.’s