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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up September 1 2023

Supply Chain Matters

The development is resulting in building multiday backup of ships waiting to traverse the canal. The storm then rapidly moved up to the coastal regions of Georgia and South Carolina , to include coastal areas that include the Ports of Savannah and Charleston.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- October 10 2023

Supply Chain Matters

OCEMA”) , an industry association consisting of 10 major international container shipping companies. Under its new ownership, CCM will reportedly have a significantly expanded capital base providing the financial support needed for the launch of the new South Atlantic Consolidated Chassis Pool.

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Hitendra Chaturvedi’s Reality Check

Resilinc

There are a lot of hard-headed realists in the procurement and supply chain profession. South Carolina is 11th after years as number one. Chaturvedi: A major question is: What will happen when China is firing on all cylinders, shipping cost come down and COVID is receding in our rear-view mirror.

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

Supply Chain Matters

The aircraft manufacturer also made a prior decision to centralize final assembly of 787 at its South Carolina facility. 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.

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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. Procurement will play a key role in monitoring supply base conditions.

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Florence Et Al.

Supply Chain Shaman

North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia sit squarely in the storm’s path. It is now closed at the start of a busy shipping season as companies prepare for holiday inventory builds. The question was simple, “What will be the impact of Hurricane Florence on the supply chain?”

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From The Desk of the CEO & CTO – 6/27/19

Shipchain

perhaps “25 SHIP per Shipment Tracked” or “5 SHIP per pallet”) because we don’t want the cost of supporting the network to simply become a race-to-the-bottom in a fee market for computing power; if a large amount of “real world value” is transacting on the sidechain, we believe that the fees the network charges should fairly reflect it.