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How to Be a Preferred Shipping Customer: Strategies for the Coming Capacity Shortage

Talking Logistics

Customers with a strict ‘procurement mindset’ overlook important factors like consistency, overall experience or past performance. Mike holds a BS degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Master of Engineering degree in Supply Chain Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Collaborate to Win

ivalua

The need for Procurement to improve collaboration with suppliers, and other stakeholders, has gained broad acceptance in recent years. To Procurement leaders’ credit, they have made significant improvements in collaborating with suppliers. It may seem obvious but it is a major change for many procurement professionals.

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If You Are Not a Step Ahead, You Are Behind.

ivalua

A couple of weeks ago, ISM and Spend Matters had their first Eprocurement Technology Summit in Baltimore, Maryland on the Inner Harbor. My advice to supply chain and procurement executives is to get in step with these trends or be run over by those who are. I attended with a few colleagues from Directworks.

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Port of Baltimore to Reopen

Supply Chain Matters

The governor of the State of Maryland continues to call for full federal funding for bridge replacement which will require bipartisan U.S. Bridge Rebuilding Efforts As noted in the initial and subsequent reports, the long suspension bridge served as an interstate roadway artery for vehicle traffic. Congressional support.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Rockville, Maryland based OCR specializes in content and services related to export compliance and controlled commodities, denied party screening, license procurement and product classification services. © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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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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The Legal Implications of Transport Visibility is NOT Good News for Truckers

NC State SCRC

Maryland has a cap on non-economic damages, but is one of very few states with a cap. Most of these cases are liability/personal injury claims. A question: How much liability are most truckers required to have?