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

Logistics Viewpoints

The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore being struck by the Dali and collapsing is an unpredictable disruption to the supply chains of several industries including automobiles, coal, and agricultural machinery. Coal industry: The Port of Baltimore is the largest coal port in the country, handling about 20 million tons of coal per year.

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Why Marketing is Your Best Salesperson with Jim Bierfeldt

The Logistics of Logistics

I started it in 2004 and we’re located in Connecticut. I think the way companies buy today is very different from how they bought twenty years ago, and I really don’t think the logistics industry has evolved with that. Logistics companies that I talk to want to move to lead generation before they nail the strategy.

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Industry View: Today is Peak Packaging Monday

Logistics Business Magazine

Businesses widespread are gathering resources and getting their strategies ready as two of the biggest dates in the diary loom ahead. However in contrast, when looking to the high street, analysis firm Springboard discovered that shopping centres and retail parks footfall figures were down 3.6%

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Possible Storm Clouds Ahead for Logistics Industry?

Blog on Log

be honest, I am not buying into this type of analysis just yet. Companies specialising in providing logistics services have done well in recent years, but the future prospects for the industry are not so certain according to independent market analyst Datamonitor's (DTM.L) in 2004 to 2.7%.According What do you think?

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PINC Receives 2020 Supply & Demand Chain Executive Green Supply Chain Award

PINC

15, 2020 — Supply & Demand Chain Executive, the only magazine in the supply chain industry covering the entire global supply chain, has selected PINC, the leader in digital yard solutions, as a recipient of the SDCE Green Supply Chain Award for 2020. This has been an extremely challenging year for the supply chain industry.

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Applying History’s Lessons to New Resiliency Plans

CH Robinson Logistics

Due to lean inventory strategies, many manufacturers only keep 15-30 days of inventory on hand. However, we saw similar supply chain outages associated with the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Japan’s earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Superstorm Sandy was uniquely catastrophic.