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A Global Shift for Manufacturers: Industries with Increased Demand

USC Consulting Group

However, with manufacturers and supply chains across the world reeling with the ongoing problems the pandemic has presented, we are seeing a definite shift in the ways business is conducted. Overall, factory shutdown and manufacturing delays have shrunk foreign direct investment by 5-15% , as global trade and supply is interrupted.

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Spectra Energy Supplier Forum: Driving Collaborative Project Management

Supply Chain View from the Field

The meeting was intended to bring together senior executive’s from Union Gas’s top 100 suppliers, in a forum to open discuss how to drive improvement in the major projects that lie ahead in the next three years. What are the opportunities in the sourcing process to improve planning?

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Low unemployment is great for everyone, right? (Not so much in logistics…)

NC State SCRC

percent, followed by North Dakota, 2.5 I was exposed to this thinking when I recently had the opportunity to meet with Tara Greene, from The Greene Group in Charlotte, NC. There is an estimated shortage of 50,000 truck drivers at any given time in the US supply chain network. The rates in Arkansas (3.4

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15 – 21)

Logistics Viewpoints

While still in the early stages of development, the emerging technology will instantly transport an item once it is picked at a warehouse or store to your living room. According to Dr. Myles Dyson, Chief Scientist at Cyberdyne, the technology will be live by late 2017, or “Judgement Day” as they have named the project timeline.