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Lessons Learned from Black Friday/Cyber Monday

Ship Monk

Interest rates have not been this high since 2007. Did you experience any supply chain issues, fulfillment problems or shipping delays? Proceed With Caution We realize that the holiday shopping season isn’t over and there’s a lot more analysis to be done. Will inflation put a damper on holiday sales?

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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

If you were to tell me that your company had never looked at its supply chain costs and sought to deliver reductions, I would be mightily surprised. On the other hand, if you told me your company hasn’t been able to sustain any progress in supply chain cost reduction, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

Yossi Sheffi of MIT is certainly one of the most influential and I would add interesting figures in supply chain today. Of late, about every three years he produces a new supply chain-related book, the last two being complementary takes on supply chain resilience and risk management.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

An off-cited analysis from McKinsey in late 2017, for example, found automation could destroy as many as 73 million US jobs by 2030, about one third of all jobs in the country. Maybe a software robot will be writing columns on supply chain topics before too long too. In comparison, in 2000-2007 the U.S.

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Will We See a Similar Downturn in the Market as We Did During the 2008 Shipping Crisis?

MTS Logistics

At its height, the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) was over 11,000 points and daily earnings were high as $157,000 at the peak (Danish Ship Finance, Shipping Market Review 2nd Half 2007). Even though supply was not meeting demand, they took a much more conservative approach to adding new vessels to their inventory. Leaning From the Past.

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How Manufacturing in the US Continues to Grow Despite Fears Over Higher Costs, Lower Percentage of GDP & Election-Year Woes

GlobalTranz

According to Bureau of Economic Analysis, the U.S. The first recovery was from 2001 to 2007, but it was halted with the Great Recession of 2008. Some of these measures, reports Supply Chain Digest, include the following: Focus on Research and Development – U.S. reports Chriss W. Street of Breitbart. Since 1991, the U.S.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling and Logistics

MH&L’s Editorial Advisory Board tackles some of the toughest topics facing the supply chain today. That’s why we went to the experts—the members of the MH&L Editorial Advisory Board—and asked them to weigh in on that subject, and on several other of the most pressing concerns to supply chain professionals.