Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 27, 2020

With allegations surfacing in the UK of factories paying half the minimum wage or ignoring physical distancing precautions during lockdown, the research found that organisations in the UK did see the correlation between improving visibility and creating sustainable supply chains with business growth.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Change can creep imperceptibly, so sometimes it takes a major event to wake us up. A year later their survey revealed that companies were more likely to have increased inventory than originally planned and less likely to have made other planned changes to suppliers and networks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

According to one survey , only 27% of leaders believe that they have the talent needed to meet current supply chain performance requirements. A skills assessment survey was done to measure potential gaps against a pre-determined skills matrix. The 2017 hurricane season,” Mr. Herzog said, “was a big event on our journey.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One of the biggest impacts of decoupling in the supply chain is that it helps minimize the impact of unexpected events. Spreading production across multiple countries or regions can mitigate the risk of production halts due to unexpected events. What are the impacts of decoupling in the supply chain?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 27, 2023

Concern about supply chain disruptions triggered by the Lunar New Year holiday that began this week is running higher this year than last, according to a survey from the German container logistics platform Container xChange.

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Trinity Logistics

AUGUST 13, 2021

According to a June survey of 84 National Association of Chemical Distributors, nearly 85 percent of distributors report at least one imported item as out-of-stock. Since March 2020, a perfect storm of events has been putting severe strains on the supply of plastic raw materials, base plastics, and compounded plastics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Tesla is ramping up production at its factories in Texas and Shanghai to head off an upcoming ambush of new EVs from legacy automakers. Panasonic plans to resolve the bottleneck in early 2024 when it starts producing the advanced cells at the $4 billion battery factory it’s building in Kansas.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 11, 2020

The trigger for this alarming state of affairs was the December outbreak of the COVID-19 Coronavirus epidemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which prompted authorities to lock down major cities, close factories, and severely limit the movement of individuals. Pinpointing the Industries Hit the Hardest. Pharmaceuticals.

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Locus

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The first event that comes to mind when we speak of global shopping events is, easily, Black Friday. But few know that there is a shopping event even bigger than that. or Bachelor’s Day is currently the single largest event in the world—over double the size Black Friday and Cyber Monday put together.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JANUARY 27, 2021

With the Chinese Lunar New Year approaching in late January 2020, global shippers planned to order stock from Chinese suppliers ahead of the celebration as factories and ports would shut down for two weeks. What they didn’t know is that these ports and factories would remain shut down as the safety restrictions of a global pandemic set in.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Highway and transportation closures, and mandatory 14-day quarantines for people returning home from strongly affected areas, mean that even in places no longer shut down, the return to normal at factories and ports will be slow. . The new trade dynamics mean that even more businesses are looking to diversify their supply chains. .

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

One survey found that 64% of businesses across materials handling, distribution, or fulfilment had forgone business worth more than 25% of their revenue in 2022 because of staffing issues. Those who are not happy or engaged in their work are at higher risk of making a mistake or experiencing mental health problems. Recruitment challenges.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 15, 2018

In theory, the money could be put to work building new factories, increasing output and hiring more American workers. At least one recent survey suggests that the result could be different this time. Under the new tax reform bill , however, that number drops to 15.5 percent — a strong incentive to return the cash to domestic coffers.

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Camelot 3PL Software

JANUARY 14, 2021

But it is possible to reposition inventory to better respond to such events. According to a report by the Geneva-based International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), global warming is not a direct cause of droughts or hurricanes, but it increases the frequency and exacerbates the risks of such events.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Extreme weather events, political crises, pandemics: As general conditions for the economy have changed in recent years, the priorities of supply chain managers have also shifted. If it exists, managers can recognize more quickly which part of the chain is affected by an external event.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 4, 2016

For some manufacturers, having factories and operations in foreign countries is beneficial to foreign customers, but having factories in the US is also beneficial to US customers. Even though these events do not necessarily represent a threat on US soil, consumers want products that are related to safe areas.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2016

These super-intelligent machines are already taking over factory workers, stock traders, data processors, even news reporters. The biggest event in human history. It could be the last event unless we learn how to avoid the risks. We have adjusted to their presence very quickly, haven’t we?

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GlobalTranz

MAY 23, 2017

Or a video shot on the factory floor using a mobile phone or a produced training class about an innovative technology. Google 'percent of B2B purchases that start with a search' and you'll see many studies showing that the number is somewhere around 66% to 93%, and many of these surveys are a year or two old. announce an event.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2016

Factors like the ability to make short “just-in-time” production runs and cut storage costs of packaging produced may make the distribution centre more cost-efficient as a packaging producer than the factory producing the products. However, strategies too must be aligned to relevant events and situations. Multiplying discounts.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Peaks are no longer simply associated with the predictable Christmas or Easter periods, but are now far more frequent and exaggerated, triggered by unexpected events, such as a random remark on Twitter. “Adding to the challenges of finding available warehouse staff, demand for goods in many sectors has become increasingly ‘spiky’.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2018

According to Dharmani the ‘nirvana’ for this technology uptake would be the establishment of an autonomous value chain that sensed change either from the demand side, when a customer changed an order, or on the supply side, when something like a fire stopped production at a supplier’s factory. Digital from the start. Asset tracking.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

A little more than 20 years ago, I was doing some consulting for a company called Indiana Glass, then a division of Lancaster Colony, at its Dunkirk, IN factory just outside of Muncie. Alas, it appears the factory was shuttered more than a decade ago. But there is one image I will never forget from my time there.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

project planned for land to the north of the Nissan factory in Washington. “It ABP ports, another of the UK’s leading port groups, did not provide any comment for this year’s ports survey. The port says that in the event of a hard Brexit without any deal on the table, there will be no period of transition – and therefore some chaos. “We

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

And though it was more of a social issue than environmental one, Sheffi cites the 2013 collapse of an apparel factory building in Bangladesh that killed more than 100, after which a number of brand companies and retailers such as Walmart and JC Penny initially touted that the factories weren’t producing any of their products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Both American and foreign companies that use US technology are being required to cut off support for some of China‘s leading factories and chip designers. When it comes to building new factories, the term “ABC” is being used – anywhere but China. But these events were not predictable. But these events were not predictable.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 26, 2016

Lower costs of producing products overseas led to many manufacturers uprooting factories and placing them in less regulated markets. According to Nancy Huddleston of Precision Manufacturing, 80 percent of surveyed leaders in manufacturers believe a recession is on the horizon.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 17, 2022

According to the annual consumer survey released today by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics, approximately 76 percent of US adults are expected to celebrate Father’s Day. One-quarter of consumers plan to give “gifts of experience” such as tickets to a concert or sporting event.

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