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This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech July 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

battery production site for Panasonic, and completion of Series D funding round for on demand warehousing provider Flex e. The announcement comes five years after Panasonic Group began production of lithium-ion batteries at Panasonic Energy of North America (PENA) , referred to as Tesla’s Gigafactory , in Sparks, Nevada.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

In fact, America’s true refund pioneer was born a century before Hsieh, on a farm in Oklahoma. Liquidity Services operates eight regional warehouse-size facilities in North America. In 1902 he moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming, in order to become a one-third owner of a general store called Golden Rule.

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Automation is here and transforming logistics

Resilinc

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is trying to stop the next round of automation at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles because it will eliminate jobs. Marine terminal automation is “the most contentious issue facing longshore unions on the West and East coasts of North America,” wrote JOC.