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

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Baltimore is one of the busiest ports on the east coast, and the bridge collapse was not only a tragedy, but a reminder that supply networks remain fragile and disruptions are not always anticipated. The port’s closure could have significant economic and environmental impacts, as well as implications for national security and defense.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 21 – 27)

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Although virtual conferences do offer convenience, they lack a personal touch and the ability to network with others in person. Walmart and Symbotic Expand Partnership to Deploy Automation System. This builds upon a prior agreement for 20 regional DCs, some of which have already begun implementing Symbotic’s technology.

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Amazon’s AWS Supply Chain Joins the B2B Supply Chain Platform Race

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech highlights yet another Cloud based B2B supply chain control layer platform announcement, this time from Amazon’s AWS Cloud computing division. East ( Northern Virginia ), U.S. This application is described as providing the ability to: “.automatically

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Episode 90 – Digital Supply Networks with Dr. Ednilson Bernardes

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Bernardes is a professor and coordinator of the Global Supply Chain Management program at West Virginia University. He is an expert in process transformation and supply networks innovation. And He is also one of the authors of the recently released book, Digital Supply Networks. The dynamics of a DSN.

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Episode 90 – Digital Supply Networks with Dr. Ednilson Bernardes

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Bernardes is a professor and coordinator of the Global Supply Chain Management program at West Virginia University. He is an expert in process transformation and supply networks innovation. And He is also one of the authors of the recently released book, Digital Supply Networks. The dynamics of a DSN.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 18 – 24)

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Jassy wrote: “I’m also optimistic that this shift will provide a boost for the thousands of businesses located around our urban headquarter locations in the Puget Sound, Virginia, Nashville, and the dozens of cities around the world where our employees go to the office.” ” And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- May 12 2023

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our May 12, 2023 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis capsule of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news. In this edition, we include six added news capsule events that has occurred across the supply chain technology spectrum: Livent Corp.