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Offering Prayers While Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Supply Chain Shaman

The city of Philadelphia is eerily quiet this morning. I live in city-center Philadelphia. There is no focus on payment based on outcomes or purchase at the point of consumption. Instead, it take active sensing, tracking and pattern recognition of shipping, chain of custody and quality information.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

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Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Revenue: JPÂ¥ 1,829 billion/ $16.5

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When The Wheels Fall Off

Supply Chain Shaman

For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. Today, there are forty-five large ships off of the port of Long Beach. Expect the longer unloading times at ports to reduce fleet capacity by 10-20%, increase lead time by 20-30%, and double the ocean transport cost.