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Like the Mississippi River Through New Orleans, Today’s CPG Market is Quickly Changing Directions

QAD

Twisting and turning, changing directions quickly, the Mississippi River winds down the center of the U.S. The focus of this year’s Explore will revolve around the speed of business – for reducing uncertainty and improving the lead time to respond to industry-wide change. through New Orleans and out into the Gulf of Mexico.

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VW Tennessee Auto Workers Approve Labor Union Representation

Supply Chain Matters

After garnering these major collective bargaining gains, the UAW publicly declared that monetary and recruiting resources this year would be aimed at non-unionized auto workers outside of the traditional unionized U.S. Specifically in the U.S. midwestern states, namely across the U.S. southeastern region.

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Peet’s Coffee and the Roasted Bean Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Despite the significant amount of effort involved in going from running a business on Excel spreadsheets to implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP), they are very grateful that their efforts to improve their supply chain agility were underway when the pandemic hit. It happened overnight.”

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Justifying Investments in Risk Avoidance

MIT Supply Chain

How do you put a value on avoiding a problem that seemingly no longer exists because you’ve already spent money on eliminating it? On the other hand, costs incurred – including security outlays – are visible, and often become prime targets for the CFO’s cost-cutting knife. As a result of the measures Sun cut its losses to zero.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

-bound shipments post first annual gain in 14 months in September Teamsters at DHL rally for fair contract The Mississippi River has dropped to a historic low Amazon is introducing an array of new artificial intelligence and robotics capabilities into its warehouse operations that will reduce delivery times and help identify inventory more quickly.

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Understanding Inventory Tax: An eCommerce Merchant’s Guide

Ware2Go

Learn which states collect it, its impact on your business, how to reduce it, and how to leverage fulfillment technology to accurately track and control inventory. The states that currently tax inventory are: Arkansas Alaska Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Oklahoma Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia.

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When the Climate Changes, Can Business Carry on as Usual?

EHS Sustainability Knowledge at Work

To highlight the unpredictability farmers are facing, consider the Mississippi River, which in 2008 flooded just before the harvest period for many crops, causing an estimate loss of $8bn for farmers. Whereas just 4 year later in 2012, the River was at its lowest level in two decades, 30 feet lower than the previous year.