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Labor Strike Targeting U.S. Automakers- Update Five

Supply Chain Matters

Upwards of 4,000 UAW workers at Volvo’s Mack truck manufacturing facilities in Florida, Maryland and Pennsylvania went on strike after rejecting a tentative five year contract agreement that included a reported 19 percent wage increase. Parallel Developments Other parallel developments have occurred since our last update.

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Analyzing Supply Chain Risk

Enterra Insights

Suresh Acharya, a Professor of Practice in the Online Master’s in Business Analytics at the University of Maryland, insists, “A thorough understanding of how to leverage data analytics to address supply chain disruptions and strengthen overall processes can help to soften that blow considerably.”[5]

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Thanksgiving 2018

Enterra Insights

Other states with significant turkey production include Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Dakota, Utah, and California. Minnesota leads the nation in turkey production followed by North Carolina, Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, and Virginia.

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What is Supply Chain Compliance and Why is it Important?

AB&R

Pennsylvania. Massachusetts. Mississippi. New Hampsire. New Jersey. New Mexico. North Carolina. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Carolina. South Dakota. Vermont.

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Outbound Tender Rejections Increase for the First Time Since March Peak

Zipline Logistics

The governor of Maryland instituted a closure of all businesses in the state on March 23. Shippers could face some supply chain difficulty in Maryland. Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has announced a graduated reopening plan that will allow less affected areas to open first. Status: Restricted.

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Logistics Market Stays Flat as May Begins

Zipline Logistics

Maryland . The governor of Maryland instituted a closure of all businesses in the state on March 23. Shippers could face some supply chain difficulty in Maryland. . Pennsylvania . Shipping into or out of Maine should be mostly unrestricted. . Status: Restricted . Massachusetts . Status: Restricted .

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3 Ways to Get the Supply Chain Ready for Disaster

RFgen

The shortest of the top six took place in Eastern Pennsylvania and lasted almost 224 hours. A large thunderstorm impacting Maryland and West Virginia caused an almost 193-hour outage that affected 145,000 people. It took nearly 2,000 workers and contractors nine days to restore power to more than 270,000 people impacted by the event.