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Driving An Octopus

Supply Chain Shaman

A Focus on Safety Stock Is Too Narrow for Effective Inventory Management. My inbox is full of articles on probabilistic planning to improve safety stock. A manufacturing company’s safety stock is 30-40% of the total inventory requirement. The testing showed great promise, but o9 stopped the testing at the end of 2022.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 27 – February 2)

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Amazon also expanded its same-day delivery service, adding nine new dedicated sites and serving 18 additional U.S. Teradyne , a supplier of semiconductor testing equipment, pulled manufacturing worth about $1 billion out of China last year, a Teradyne spokesperson said on Monday, after U.S.

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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

If I had a magic wand, I would redesign work to transform the planners to become data orchestrators with supply chain planning becoming self-service by business leaders. Only 15% of inventories are safety stock. In my forty years of studying supply chain planning, the groups became larger, but with questionable results. The So What?

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Driver Shortage, Driverless Vehicles, and Other Supply Chain Curiosities

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Throw in regulations regarding medical testing, licensing qualifications and safety enforcement, and it’s not difficult to see – something’s got to give. But the industry is watching as the technology opens new opportunities for safety, savings and speed long-haul, raising curiosity on the strength of a compelling business case.

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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

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Supply chain resilience is crucial for ensuring the continuity of business operations, the delivery of essential goods and services, and the protection of public safety and national security. The port closure also affects the social and environmental aspects of supply chains, such as employment, safety, health, and sustainability.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 9 – 15)

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Amazon on Tuesday announced that the service, which is currently in a pilot test, will be more broadly available later this year. In introducing the service, Walmart said “We’ve all been there. The offering was unveiled this week at Amazon Accelerate, a conference that drew about 2,000 online merchants to Seattle.

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GlobalTranz And Echo Global Logistics Both Report 40% Fourth Quarter Revenue Growth

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GlobalTranz, a logistics service provider, put out a press release on February 23rd where they mentioned that they had achieved 40% growth in revenue, fourth quarter of 2020 compared to the fourth quarter of 2019. GlobalTranz’s main service lines are freight brokerage – less-than-truckload and truckload – and managed transportation services.