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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

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spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. The main take aways from the presentation earlier this year were the following: The auto industry has made supply chain risk management a priority since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

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Reshoring in America: The Future Outlook, Current Hindrances & Issues, and Ways to Stimulate Reshoring

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There were 10% fewer manufacturers in 2011 than in 2008—a record low since 1977, when the Census Bureau started collecting Business Dynamics data. Harry Moser, Reshoring Initiative Founder and President, offered insights to economic developers at the 2013 IEDC conference , including some of the points listed below. manufacturing.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

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As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Early examples of intermodal containers include railroads from 1830s (various sized containers), and Pennsylvania Railroad regular container service (1929). Readers' choice! Did You Know That ….