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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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The Zara’s logistics process

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Nowadays, the fashion industry demands more and more creativity, versatility, and especially agility to compete in the market. This response by retailers to constant market changes takes place within a few weeks, as opposed to the industry average of six months. Distribution 4. Purchasing and production 3.

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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. Kite’s ecommerce division was introduced in 2004 and has been continuously evolving since. The post Industry View: Today is Peak Packaging Monday appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Contractors and strategic logistics advantage in US military operations

Logistics in War

x] Civilian industry can often offer logistic-related services more efficiently and effectively because they have a degree of expertise and can source the equipment, infrastructure, personnel, supplies, and transportation assets from within the theatre or from nearby regions.

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LHoF presents new humanitarian award

Logistics Business Magazine

The 80-year-old US businessman transferred industrial logistics strategies to humanitarian organisations in the 1990s. As early as 1922, Raymond acquired a foundry called Lyon Iron Works in New York State and formed it into The Raymond Corporation, now a subsidiary of Toyota Industries. The award is named after Lynn C.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The End of Made In China Manufacturing

GlobalTranz

Knowing that 3D printers will fundamentally change distribution of plastics and other plastic-related materials, it is likely that the unilateral pouring of low-quality products from Asia to the West will end. In other words, local and regional demand will dictate the scale and scope of industries that rely on mass manufacturing.

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

GlobalTranz

This estimate is according to responses provided by 83 percent of the manufacturing executives who participated in a survey conducted as part of an industry study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting LLP. Nationally, the health care and technology industries have been especially hard hit by the staffing deficits.