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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

Of course, a high stock price enriches those people who already own shares, and makes options and stock grants more valuable, but they didn’t get into that either. ” The result was a 32 hour course that ran two days, then a break, then two days the following week. Elimination of waste: Focus on adding value.

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What the Trucking Industry Could Look Like in 2021

Shipchain

That last few years have been nothing short of eventful for the trucking industry. This, of course, left some large shoes to fill, and unfortunately, 2019 could not meet the mark, with freight rates falling by 27 percent as per Camino Financial. A Brief Recap on The Trucking Industry’s Recent History.

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Port of Los Angeles Reports Near-record Level Cargo Volumes in 2019

Logistics Manager

The Port of Los Angeles moved near-record cargo in 2019 with a total of 9,337,632 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs), just short of the second-best year in its 113-year history. It’s time for the courage and long-range vision to imagine what this Port will look like in the years ahead and set a course in that direction.

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Key Takeaways from Pestworld 2019: Moving Beyond Service Delivery

WorkWave

Here are just a few of my observations and thoughts from this year’s event. Strong data governance requires good data to begin with, of course. The post Key Takeaways from Pestworld 2019: Moving Beyond Service Delivery appeared first on WorkWave. Sophisticated Marketing Is Now the Norm.

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Toilet Paper Shortages, Empty Shelves, and Panic Buying: Just How Bad Did the Grocery Supply Chain Perform in 2020?

Logistics Viewpoints

For companies trying to predict demand in March of 2020 as the world was descending into lockdown and everything was being turned upside down, what happened in March of 2019 had little to no relevance. These extreme error events “are the supply chain equivalent of the highway washout or bridge closure.”

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Analysis: Why the Biden Administration is Not Being Honest About Supply Chain Issues

MTS Logistics

In politics, it can of course be necessary at times to portray events as relatively simple in order to reach a wider audience. 23 of the quarters out of 48 from 2008 through 2019 saw the industry have a negative EBIT margin. As many noticed, the supply chain came into the prime spotlight when it was prominently mentioned in U.S.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

The shift to full end-to-end integration, of course, leaves no one else in the middle. The first is size , of course, with Maersk running over 17% of global ocean capacity , but also selling land-services to just under 20% of those same customers. Maersk 2019 Annual Report. Driving the Maersk Shift. It’s worked.