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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

The Cooper University Health Care Supply Chain Cooper University Health Care is the leading academic health system in southern New Jersey. Everything from contrast dye, to tubing, to medical devices with embedded semiconductor chips would suddenly become difficult to source. Then the risk solution fills in the gaps.

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Maybe its time for consumers to consume less…Market Satiation as a new supply chain strategy

NC State SCRC

The current set of supply chain disruptions is being set off by a combination of COVID cases and energy disruptions in manufacturing hubs around the world, labor shortages, lack of capital infrastructure investment, misaligned transportation resources ( a lack of containers, ships, and trucks), and surges in consumer demand.

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Continued Disruption and Added Cost Inflation Reflected in Key Global Transportation and Logistics Indices in March and Q1 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Global Shipping. The World Container Index , assessed by Drewy Consultants, is a compilation of eight major shipping routes to and from the United States , Europe and Asia. For the specific routing of Shanghai to New York , the index was $11, 531, reflecting a six percent decline. . Shipping Transit Timeliness.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up- August 17 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Across the United Kingdom , all eyes are on a threatened work stoppage involving dockworkers at the Port of Felixstowe , the country’s largest container shipping port. Bloomberg reported that shipping lines such as Maersk have already announced contingency plans for vessels e=scheduled to call on Felixstowe.

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech June 28 2022

Supply Chain Matters

indicate that both are building a data platform that aims to predict shipping delays and prescribe alternative plans for their customers. The new supply-chain intelligence platform, termed FourKites X, aims to combine data from FedEx’s network of more than 16.5 million daily shipments.

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Port of Baltimore Bridge Collapse Update

Supply Chain Matters

It has been just over two weeks since a container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon of Baltimore, Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning hours of March 26. miles to partially collapse into the Patapsco River , blocking the main shipping channel that leads to the Port of Baltimore.

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Q: Why so many product shortages? A: The Perfect Storm

NC State SCRC

COVID has also hit a number of key ports, like the port of Yantian , which is a major outbound port for shipping products to the US. Once a port shuts down, ships and containers back up, and this bottleneck is difficult to catch up with. There aren’t enough workers to unload the ships. Then there are the container issues.