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Survey: Most Suppliers Experience "Operational Friction" When Serving Manufacturers

A survey conducted by HICX, a supplier experience platform provider, revealed that most suppliers are struggling to put their best foot forward for major manufacturers.

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Port Stoppages Are Targets for Cargo Thieves. Here’s How to Fight Back

When cargo is at rest, it’s also at risk. As disruptions such as strikes at major U.K. ports continue, shippers are scrambling to keep cargo moving so it’s harder to steal.

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Foodservice supplier saves 25% on data loggers while increasing visibility

Challenge: Client distribution of perishable products across approximately 150 retail stores in 35 states was creating challenges for receiving teams, who struggled to find and download data loggers when unloading trucks. Compliance failures resulted. For recovered devices, a time-consuming download process followed which also required outdated software.

EU Seeks Power to Force Order Fulfillment During Supply Chain Emergencies

The European Commission wants the power to force companies to fill orders within the European Union first during times of crisis, or risk fines.

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Walmart, Ranchers Team Up on Beef-Processing Plant to Ensure Supply

Walmart is taking a stake in a planned Nebraska beef processing plant to help stock its meat sections, one step in a plan to develop a network of facilities to supply its stores.

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How Manufacturers Can Meet the Challenge of the Semiconductor Chip Shortage

Industry and the U.S. government alike are responding to the gap between semiconductor supply and demand.

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Without a Minute to Spare: Time-Sensitive Deliveries Just Got Faster

Challenge: An international building solutions provider needed a better way to deliver concrete to building sites. Avoiding delays and interruptions was essential as concrete is highly perishable with a shelf life of just 90 minutes.

Re-Commerce is Buzzword at Home Delivery World 2022

Ideas about how to more efficiently “re-commerce” returned goods into the supply chain seemed the most fresh and fruitful up for discussion on the first day of Home Delivery World in Philadelphia, Aug. 31.

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Equipment Shortages Snarling U.S. Supply Chains

Logistics executives say sea containers and the steel trailers needed to ferry goods on trucks are in short supply, as efforts to cope with steep inventory imbalances send new backups rippling across supply chains.

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Will Passage of the CHIPS Act Resolve Supply Chain Issues?

Passage of the CHIPS Act came at an opportune time, as chip manufacturers had suspended plans to build new fabrication plants in the U.S., saying they wouldn’t proceed without U.S. government subsidies.

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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Impacts of Inflation?

The manufacturing supply chain has been bruised and battered in the last few years, and the hits keep on coming: the pandemic, extreme weather, geopolitical challenges, the Great Resignation, and a wave of retirements – and now, global inflation.

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U.S. Set to Ship Record Crude Into 2023 as Energy Crisis Deepens

U.S. crude sales overseas are set to hit fresh records through next year as American oil increasingly takes market share in Europe.

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