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.
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.
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 For recovered devices, a time-consuming download process followed which also required outdated software.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
