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How Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment is Killing Kmart USA

Logistics Bureau

At the next Logistics Bureau Free Executive Breakfast (which will take place in August), I’ll be discussing the alignment of supply chain and business strategy along with eight other important levers for supply chain performance improvement. The Failing Kmart Business Strategy. The first Kmart store opened way back in 1962.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The End of Made In China Manufacturing

GlobalTranz

The erosion in the cost advantage has been driven by a confluence of sharp wage increases, lagging productivity growth, unfavorable currency swings, and a dramatic rise in energy costs, states the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) based on a study of 25 nations that account for nearly 90 percent of global exports of manufactured goods.

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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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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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Will your China Strategy Get Stung By ASP Technology?

Blog on Log

“… High-performing Chinese supply-chains of the future will integrate today’s legacy and server based applications with future technologies inherent to the Internet …” Logistics Technology in China Infrastructure Chokepoints and Investments FY 2004, container volume in China’s ports increased over 28% (from previous year) to over 59 million TEUS.

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C4T appoints new CEO

Logistics Business Magazine

Chief Revenue Officer Jo Buvens, ex-Salesforce and Chief Product and Technology Officer Oliver Conze, ex SAP join Spiegelberg to drive C4T management and its digital platform CAS in a new direction to accelerate growth in 2023. Werner Koninckx will represent the founders on the board.

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

– Chief of Army LTGEN Peter Leahy, 2004 [1]. An unprepared military offers political leaders few options, corrupts strategy, is inefficient and ineffective, and poses a national risk. Supplying War , 2 nd edition, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2004, p 236. [7] 3] Galvin, T., 4] Betts., 6] Van Creveld, M.,