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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Not surprisingly, analytics is at the top of the list.

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Ready For the Next Port Crisis?

Talking Logistics

This dispute has left a damaging effect on our industry—causing extreme delays and millions in lost sales,” the American Apparel & Footwear Association said, as reported in the WSJ. “If It said that if it takes two months for the ports to become fully operational, the window for shipping this season’s crop will have closed.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech August 30 2023

Supply Chain Matters

billion Battery Materials Campus to be located in the heart of the “ Battery Belt ,” just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. According to the announcement , this start-up aims to develop breakthroughs in Generative AI , Large Language Models and Business Analytics. for the first time.

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US Retail Sales Miss Forecasts

Material Handling & Logistics

While purchases at food-services and drinking establishments fell 1.8%, the most since 2016, most other major retail categories showed a gain, suggesting consumption ended the quarter on a solid note. Some businesses reported a positive impact from weather, and the bureau can’t isolate the monthly data at specific geographic levels, it said.

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Say Customer Service and Mean It

Supply Chain Shaman

Many of my clients talk about a customer-centric supply chain but rely on useless metrics from an annual survey or a net promoter score. Historic processes are inside-out tightly integrated to orders and purchase orders. The two primary manufacturing sites are located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Irmo, South Carolina.

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Climate Change: Companies Must Step-up as Governments Fail to Act

Enterra Insights

Nevertheless, when candidates participating in the first Republican presidential debate were asked whether humans had contributed to climate change, journalist Neil Vigdor reports that the debate “quickly descended into personal attacks and obfuscation.”[1] Yes, it is. degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).

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Ford’s Announced Plans to Operate a Battery Plant in Michigan

Supply Chain Matters

According to reporting by Bloomberg (Paid subscription required) , this venture is unique in that Ford will own and operate the complete facility while CATL will: “ license its intellectual properties for battery technologies to Ford ”, which is noted as a technology collaboration. states of Kentucky and South Carolina , along with Mexico.