Elementum

DECEMBER 2, 2015

China’s Tianjin port suffered a devastating explosion in August which left many manufacturers, insurers and shipping supply chains crippled. To mitigate the investment and production loss in Tianjin, JLR has planned new production centers in continental Europe and South America. Supply Chain and Shipping.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Its growth—use increases by 11% per year—has ignited a battle among companies to produce the cheapest alternative source: batteries. Companies like Tesla, using the gigafactory, could source lithium from local suppliers in Nevada for a fully closed supply chain. Does lithium need to be transported far? What are the next steps?

Transportation 60

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

Given that some Asian and South American countries have no compunction about continuing to do business with Russia, and that many companies in the West have trade relationships in Asia and South America, the sanctions have caught many Western companies’ supply chains in a stranglehold. But the problems don’t stop there.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 98

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Elementum

OCTOBER 8, 2015

We examine the benefits and obstacles to e-commerce in Southeast Asia, South America, and Africa. In 2011, Nigerian startup Mall for Africa, which ships American brands to Nigerian consumers, took in $17 million in 2014. Sourcing from multiple countries can present a headache. Why Developing Economies are Clicking “Buy”.

Kenya 60

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Resilinc

MAY 16, 2023

And in 2021, Apple reported that 13% of cobalt shipped in its products came from recycling. Some sources predict future lithium shortages due to the large quantities of water required for lithium production, which is taxing for areas like South America and Australia that are prone to drought.

Chile 62

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Intelligent Audit

APRIL 1, 2021

While each shipping mode presents more complexity for managing the freight audit , having a single validated source of truth across your supply chain opens up endless possibilities for shipment and cost optimization. Some of these fees are unknown at the time of shipping. Accessorial Cost Add Up. Download the White Paper.

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Global Trade Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. As manufactures and retailers increasingly depend on extended rosters of sourcing companies, the resulting networked supply chain requires improved visibility. Subscribe To.

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Shipchain

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

With that being said, we are in ongoing discussions and have active pilots and customers in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America outside of the US. Fairly early on, we determined that traditional API data integration services would meet our needs by providing a scalable, cost-effective, and predictable means of data sourcing. .

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Global Trade Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. Prosecutors say a Dutch-based trafficking group hid cocaine and heroin among legitimate cargoes, including timber and bananas shipped in containers from South America.

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Freightera

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

. “In a highly fragmented brokerage market such as North America, several brokerage solution providers are expected to share market opportunity rather than domination by a few such as in China, India, and South America where the number of brokerage houses are small and owner-operator population is the main carrier type.”

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 15, 2019

In the past year alone wildfires have ravaged California, multiple hurricanes have hit South America, and Indonesia has been rocked by a deadly earthquake and tsunami that caused thousands of fatalities. Digitizing your supply chain management processes can enable you to do just that. To put it simply, context matters.

Supply Chain Planning Software 87

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Resilinc

APRIL 20, 2021

“What’s going on is a re-balancing … An imbalance was created, one that leaned too heavily on China and other Asian countries, because sourcing was driven by one priority: reducing labor costs.” This approach cut costs but added time in shipping, which often inflated balance sheets. and near-shoring (moving it closer).

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2023

West Coast dockworkers incurring job actions that are hindering container ship unloading among various port terminals. But shipping industry sources now indicate that negotiations deteriorated last week over the scope of expected dockworker wage increases. Further, as we indicated in a prior commentary, the U.S. Gulf or U.S.

Los Angeles 52

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Passages, capes, and straits are defined as geographical areas through which international shipping routes must transit. These routes are typically found connecting important marketplaces with active commercial trade systems, such as Western Europe, North America, and East Asia. Potential for closure or interruption.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 8, 2024

Deep Impact (1998) In Deep Impact , a comet strikes the earth, creating a mega-tsunami that devastates the Atlantic coasts of North America, South America, Europe, and Africa. A nuclear disaster, as depicted in the film, would likely result in a reassessment of nuclear power as an energy source.

Los Angeles 103

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Central and South America have the young workforce that can staff the ecosystem of cost-effective suppliers U.S. Shipping by land can be less costly and more efficient than the ocean shipping from Asian countries on which the U.S. America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). supply chains. now depends.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 26, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters editorial commentary we address the dichotomy of revisiting supply chain strategic sourcing strategies in the wake of a rapidly changing l landscape of challenges. Strategic Sourcing Shifts Away from China. Basis of Materials Strategic Sourcing. Background. The rest, as they often say, is history.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

At the same time, we’ve made ourselves vulnerable to these tactics by outsourcing so much of what we used to produce domestically or source from reliable allies. They’ve built ports to depths greater than those needed by container ships across the globe, presumably to accommodate their large naval ships and submarines.

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