Category Archives: Supply Chains

Supply Chain Efficient Frontiers

Another note from Dan Gilmore on the idea of improving your supply chain. How much can you do it within the current parameters?  Or should you be going after a major shift?  A bit of the research background.

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Fresh Thinking about the Poorly Understood Concept of Supply Chain TradeOff Curves

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Transplace Acquires M33 Integrated

Another merger in the Logistics space.

Acquisition completed by third party logistics provider deepens technology offering, strengthens flexible packaging expertise.

Source: Transplace Acquires M33 Integrated – Supply Chain 24/7

Charleston -‘Top 5’ container port by 2020?

This is ridiculous. Not every East Coast US port can be top 5!!  Last week it was Houston!  And where are Savannah and Miami and Jacksonville?   How many of these investments will be lost?

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Source: Charleston seeks to be ‘Top 5’ container port by 2020 | AS Daily Newsletter | AS Daily | American Shipper

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Source: Port of Virginia on pace for record box growth | AS Daily Newsletter | AS Daily | American Shipper