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Shipping Containers and Supply Chain Snarls: Is There a Way Out?

Enterra Insights

Much of the finger-pointing involved the movement of shipping containers into and out of port facilities. For the supply chain to work smoothly, a complex and highly choreographed dance, involving both full and empty shipping containers, must be performed. More than 80 ships stretched to the distance — a new record. ”[1].

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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

Solvoyo’s Solution Bugaboo: something that causes fear or distress out of proportion to its importance. Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. Would better forecasting accuracy be a good thing?

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This Week in Logistics News (May 27 – June 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

Walmart added new functionality that lets sellers purchase shipping labels for domestic orders on its marketplace. Ship with Walmart (SWW) was previously available only for cross-border orders. The feature is standard on other major marketplaces, offering sellers reduced shipping rates and integrating with their platforms.

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Trends 2023: Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Steve Banker , a Vice President for SCM at ARC Advisory Group, observes, “The US is greatly expanding its attempt to slow Beijing’s technological and military advances. It is not just US tool manufacturers that are affected. And that could make things even more challenging for the shipping/supply industry on a different level.

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Meet Peter Guinto, Resilinc’s VP of Government Affairs

Resilinc

Peter Guinto capped his 12-year Air Force career in procurement by serving on the federal COVID supply chain task force and becoming head of contracting for the Medium-altitude UAS Division—the unit responsible for keeping the United States’ edge in warfighting drones. In particular, China’s military-civil fusion.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

Ukraine does not have the military might to stop the invasion. FourKites , a provider of real-time transportation visibility solutions, has a big data set around transportation. Those shipments need to go by Ocean or the more expensive Air mode if ship berths can’t be found. The Nord Stream Pipeline.

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A Coronavirus Supply Chain Success Story: Public-Private Team Effort to Get Logistics Tech to 1st Responders

Savi

Currently, Savi is the sole provider for the military’s active RFID-IV (aRFID IV) contract , which Product Lead Automated Movement and Identification Solutions (PL AMIS) manages. government agencies and allied partners with state-of-the-art global asset tracking and in-transit visibility hardware, software and integration services.