 | Is the US transportation infrastructure in crisis or not? How much does the answer really matter to shippers? Supply Chain Digest addresses these questions and more, stemming from a forum at Georgia Tech that focused on capacity and infrastructure challenges for the supply chain. |
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| Supply chain transformation happens for all kinds of reasons. In the case of Coats North America, a dramatic change in its customer base due to low cost country sourcing meant its supply chain network was badly misaligned. The company took that opportunity to not only reconfigure its supply chain network, but to transform to strategy, processes and technology to move from push to pull. |
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| SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore attended the annual Warehouse Education and Research Council (WERC) conference in Nashville. He found the conference and material, which focused almost exclusively on warehousing and distribution topics, to be excellent. We review the conference, and summarize a few of the most interesting sessions we attended. |
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| Deal with Barry Callebaut Company Signals End of an Era, and the Powerful Allure of Outsourcing Strategies |
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| Most companies are pursuing global supply chain strategies, but how many are really doing it well? SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore continues to talk to companies that just aren't getting what they hope to from global supply chain initiaitives, and he offers some perspective on the challenges, as well as announcing a new report of Global Logistics from Supply Chain Digest. |
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| Work Going to Central America and Mexican plants, not China |
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 | In this informative presentation from Supply Chain Digest and The Supply Chain Television Channel, we explore recent trends that are showing that near shore suppliers are becoming net beneficiaries of Low Cost County Sourcing initiatives when companies calculate total acquisition cost early in the sourcing process. This is leading to an increased focus on sourcing from Mexico and Eastern Europe, rather than just Asia. |
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