The Supply Chain Matters blog comments on Amazon’s recent announcement to hire an additional 75,000 warehouse and customer fulfillment workers including a sign-on bonus. Further announced is that Dr. Robin Gaster, author of the book, Behemoth: Amazon Rising, will be our conversational guest in the upcoming Supply Chain Matters podcast.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog provides a capsule of noteworthy updates to prior global supply chain news developments. Included companies in this update are shipping line Hapag-Lloyd, Canadian National railroad, trade group National Retail Federation and fitness equipment provider Peloton.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights Apple’s announced $430 billion in U.S. investment, but beyond a lot of veneer, the company’s supply network likely remains anchored in Asia.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog amplifies the growing list of component and material shortages that are becoming far more visible across the United States in just a matter of one week.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog surveys recent financial and operational performance of some bellwether companies’ indicative of ongoing industry supply chain disruption. We focus on indicators of how certain industries, companies, key services providers and customers are faring during this unprecedented 2021 global supply chain surge of activity. In this blog we focus on container shipping industry leader Maersk.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog surveys recent financial and operational performance of some bellwether companies’ indicative of industry product demand and supply networks trending. Our goal is to share indicators of how certain industries, companies, key services providers and customers are faring during this unprecedented 2021 disruption.
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In this Supply Chain Matters blog commentary we share perspectives on the ongoing post Suez Canal disruption impacting multiple-industries, and how today’s Cloud based logistics and WMS technology capabilities can aide in mitigation. We include highlights of a conversation with an Oracle WMS technology executive.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights April 2021 global manufacturing and supply chain activity level reporting and current trending relative to product demand and supply network activity levels. The message remains that global supply chain activity is now at full throttle and disruption abounds.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog shares highlights and perspectives regarding Amazon’s latest quarterly financial and operational performance and its implications.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog features our latest This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech, a synopsis of noteworthy technology focused investment developments. Providers mentioned in this update include: DSV Panalpina, Lineage Logistics, Kuehne+Nagel, PlusAI, Arrive Logistics and Walmart.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog provides commentary to the latest quarterly financial performance of global parcel carrier UPS and its implications to small and medium businesses.
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The Supply Chain Matters blog updates readers to added developments in efforts of two separate Canadian railroads, Canadian Pacific and Canadian National, seeking to merge with a smaller U.S. rail carrier, Kansas City Southern. The stakes are a transcontinental North South rail network.
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