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2021 Cold Storage Warehouse Industry Update
The COVID-19 Pandemic: The One-Two Punch for the Cold Chain As the pandemic began, then raged on, consumers were locked down, trapped in their homes with their families. The supply chain struggled to adjust to the dynamics of the pandemic. With restaurants,...
The Friday Report: July 2, 2021
Amazon Invests in New Disaster-Relief Hub Amazon currently owns over 800 warehouses and has increased its real estate footprint by 50 percent from 2019 to 2020. In its usual forward-thinking capacity as a supply chain industry leader, Amazon has learned from the...
The Friday Report June 25, 2021
Wood Wields Power over Housing Starts and Renovation As with numerous industries, the lumber industry experienced supply chain disruptions due to mill closures during COVID as well as a rampant escalation in demand for which the industry was not ready. The lack of...
The Friday Report: June 18, 2021
New Bipartisan Bill Offers Incentive for U.S. Chip Production New legislation originating from the Senate Finance Committee provides a 25 percent tax credit to semiconductor producers that manufacture their silicon in the United States. This incentive would apply to...
The Friday Report: June 11th, 2021
UPS Leverages COVID Infrastructure Investment to Ramp Up Pharma Cold Chain Service Building the infrastructure needed to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine, including freezer farms, dry ice production and tracking technology is about to come in very handy for UPS. With...
5 Reasons: 2021 Semi-Conductor Shortage
Since last year, semiconductors have been in short supply across the globe. Initially anticipated to only last a short time, now the semiconductor shortage is at pandemic proportions, impacting industries from electronics to home appliances, cell phones and...
The Friday Report: June 4th, 2021
Supply Chain Problems Are Not Limiting U.S. Economic Growth Although supply chain disruptions held back supplies needed for manufacturing, the United States economy grew at a slightly faster pace in both April and May 2021 according to a Federal Reserve report. ...
The Friday Report: May 28th, 2021
Chinese Burst Steel Bubble Is a steel shortage creating a bubble? With steel in short supply, steel stocks are rocketing to the moon. U.S. Steel is up 200 percent in only 12 months and Nucor is up 76 percent just this year. The pandemic last year forced...
The Basics of Omnichannel
What Is Omnichannel? You undoubtedly have heard of omnichannel. The word is widely used when talking about everything from mobile devices, customer loyalty, online marketplaces, and digital channels to the customer experience. Do you really know what omnichannel is?...
Supply Chain Shortages, COVID-19, and Rising Prices
Supply Chains Disrupted by COVID Still in Flux When one stops to think about the complexity of today’s supply chains, disruption almost seems inevitable. Supply chain disruption and product shortages seem to be the hot topic of the day. From the sourcing and...