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Container-Weighing Rule: And You Put the Load Right On ... Who?
Just who's responsible for weighing that ocean container? After several years of thrashing out a rule to combat the problem of misdeclared weights, regulators and rulemaking bodies still can't seem to agree.
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Sharks vs. Jets on the West Coast Waterfront?
Here's a question for U.S. exporters who were grievously harmed by the West Coast longshore labor slowdown in late 2014 and early 2015: Would it make you feel any better to learn that you were the victims of "a street brawl"?
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So Your S&OP Initiative Isn't Working Out? Here's Why
A lot of companies are falling short in their efforts to derive full value from the sales and operations planning (S&OP) function. But the main reason for their failure might surprise you.
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How Retailers Can Meet the Challenge of Amazon
The outsourcing of logistics is supposed to save businesses big money. They pay only for the services they need; they turn over complex operations to a pro, and they get expensive assets off their books. It all makes eminent sense - unless your name is Amazon.com Inc.
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TPP: A New Era of Trade, or the Monster Spawn of Nafta?
Can we predict the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by examining the track record of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta)? Well, maybe.
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Responsible Supply Chains: Are We Willing to Pay the Price?
Are consumers really willing to pay more for a product that's environmentally sustainable and socially responsible? Depends on whom you ask.
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A Port With Too Much Container Space? Welcome to the Bizarro World
In the Superman comics, the Bizarro World is a planet where normal people and events become strangely inverted. Which, in the world of global trade and supply chain, appears to be happening with increasing regularity.
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Unprepared Supply Chains Are 'Driving Blindfold' Toward Disaster
What's the biggest risk to global supply chains today? Natural disasters? Terrorism? Supplier failure? Port strikes? How about ignorance?
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How Does a U.S. Materials Manufacturer Compete? By Bringing the Pain
It's tough for a U.S. materials manufacturer to keep pace with foreign competition - especially when it's burdened with "tools from the stone age."
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Freight Regulation and Profitability: Can We Strike a Balance?
Want to get a sense of how new federal regulations will affect transportation tomorrow? Look at California today.
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Big Ships, Small Infrastructure: A Recipe for Disaster
By the time you read this, the largest containership ever to call a U.S. port will have visited the ports of Los Angeles and Oakland. It won't be the last. But will regulation and environmental pressures prevent carriers from developing the infrastructure needed to handle these seagoing behemoths?
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When Your Supplier Becomes Your Competitor
How would you like to spend substantial amounts of time and money on establishing an overseas supplier to manufacture your product - only to see that partner start competing against you with its own brand?
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