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Actualidad: Understanding the Great Supply Chain Reset
Technology is enabling businesses to model different scenarios, respond faster to disruption and make more informed decisions.
Actualidad: The Economist: China is Remaking Global Supply Chains
Chinese industrial parks, ports and airports are springing up all over, from Saudi Arabia and Hungary to Brazil and Indonesia.
Actualidad: Amazon Plans Six-Fold Increase in Drone Delivery Service by End of 2026
The e-commerce giant said this rapid expansion will bring ultrafast drone delivery within reach of tens of millions of customers across the country.
Actualidad: Understanding the U.S. DoT’s American Supply Chain Sovereignty Initiative
The cargo visibility program will need data-privacy protections to succeed, experts warn.
Actualidad: Five Grain Ships Struck Near Russian Black Sea Ports
Russia and Ukraine have stepped up attacks on each other’s commercial ships and ports in the Black Sea area, raising concerns about global grain supplies.
Actualidad: Port NOLA Cleared to Build New Deepwater Container Terminal
The terminal will allow the port to handle massive container ships with 50-foot drafts, which in the past have been too large to navigate to the port’s existing facilities.
Actualidad: Born at the Dock: Plan With Execution Built In
Born at the Dock argues that a supply chain plan is not complete when software approves it; it is complete only when the physical network can execute it and the customer receives the order in full. The whitepaper reframes planning around the dock, where inventory must be found, cases picked, pallets built, shipments staged, trailers
Actualidad: Chinese Shipper Launches First Cargo Service Through Arctic
The 3,500 mile path cuts through the Arctic Circle, and more than halves the time it takes to sail between China and Europe.
Actualidad: Idled Dodge Muscle Car Plant May Be Sold, Canada Union Says
Although Stellantis hasn’t provided formal notice of closing the plant, the company has indicated that it’s open to selling it.
Actualidad: The Marginal Cost of Intelligence Is Collapsing. Supply Chains Will Never Be the Same.
For most of modern business history, intelligence has been expensive. A transportation planner has only so many hours in a day. A procurement analyst can investigate only so many suppliers. A warehouse manager can examine only so many exceptions. A demand planner can explore only so many scenarios before a decision has to be made.