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

Logistics Viewpoints

The port handles about 11 million tons of cargo per year, including automobiles, containers, coal, and farm products. According to a widely cited framework by Christopher and Peck from “Building the Resilient Supply Chain” (2004), supply chain resilience consists of four dimensions: robustness, agility, redundancy, and flexibility.

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Toilet paper and total war – the psychology of shortages and what it means for resilience

Logistics in War

The difficulty experienced in obtaining basic household products – toilet paper for example – as consumers buy in preparation for a state of quarantine that may never come, as trite an issue as it may be, starkly demonstrates how critical human behaviour is in the calculus. We’re waiting to find out what happens next.

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Deliveries are Booming, but so are Fuel Prices

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In fact, the recent surge in oil prices is the biggest since 2004. For example, last year Tesla announced the Tesla Semi, the automaker’s electric truck which is currently being tested ahead of production. Fuel prices in the US have increased by more than 30 percent over the past year.

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

– Chief of Army LTGEN Peter Leahy, 2004 [1]. For example, it is widely accepted that the Australian Defence Force (ADF) had little logistics capacity to sustain a large second-rotation force after intervening in East Timor in 1999. Supplying War , 2 nd edition, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2004, p 236. [7]

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Attracting Millennials to Manufacturing: Understanding Millennial Experience in Order to Gain Talent

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They have little experience to know what it means for a product to be “Made in America,” with a few exceptions, and many of them have never set foot inside a textile, or manufacturing plant. In 2004, Facebook was founded, and the future of inter-connected millennials would never be the same. Role of Social Media.

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PINC Named 2020 Food Logistics’ Top Green Provider

PINC

UNION CITY, CA —July 16, 2020 — Food Logistics , the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain, has named PINC to the Top Green Providers list for 2020. Each year, the criteria for earning a spot on the list become more stringent for applicants.

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

Industry data for 2004 - 2013 shows an annual loss of at least $17 billion due to vacant positions, with shocking losses of around $45 billion in both 2012 and 2013. skilled production workers. For example, job training grants totaling $450 million were distributed among approximately 270 community colleges in 2014. researchers.