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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said it was essential to prevent Tokyo, where the highly infectious Delta COVID-19 variant was spreading, from becoming the source of another wave of infections. This new policy applies to any and all contracts awarded to provide production material for new vehicle projects.

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Top Digital Supply Chain Cities in the U.S.

Material Handling & Logistics

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Is The Creative Class Coming To A City Near You?

Supply Chain Insights

I made a list and wrote Seattle, San Francisco, and Austin. This is more than just birds of a feather flocking together in a few places on the planet (Silicon Valley, Boston’s Route 128, The Triangle in North Carolina, Austin, Seattle, Bangalore, Dublin and Sweden to name a few) and having an impact. Then I thought, dang!

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Prediction- Added Labor Activism Among Industry Supply Chains

Supply Chain Matters

With government trade policies favoring more domestic sourcing of deemed strategic supply networks such as semiconductor devices, there are already indications across the U.S. and Europe for programs to train workers in specialized technical dimensions of such production.

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6 Tips for Creating Private Label Products for Amazon FBA

EMERGE App

Here, I’ll cover private label products first and how you should go about sourcing for suppliers. If you can’t drink caffeinated products there’s little sense in starting a small-batch coffee roaster that sources sustainable green coffee beans. Pro Tip #2: Source Your Product Sensibly. Going to the Source.

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Logistics in the City

Enterra Insights

” Of course, commuter traffic isn’t the only source of urban traffic congestion. Calvert reports, “Seattle is developing an app-based system to help trucks find open loading spaces.” Instead, packages are redistributed outside the urban center to specialized teams that are allowed to enter the city center.”

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Talking Circular Supply Chains with Deborah Dull

Logistics Bureau

For example, I’m sitting in Seattle, not far from the biospheres that the team at Amazon has built, and those are heated with server heat runoff. I will say this is one of the few spaces I’ve ever seen where government policy is out ahead of the business community. There’s lots of money to be had here.