This issue features several timely topics, including supply chain management and logistics, plastics, and metalworking and fabricating. In the COVID-19 era, the norms of supply chain logistics have been thrown out, and companies are discovering that the processes that once worked well to keep costs down are actually driving up the cost of doing business. In this issue, we feature several editorials that discuss the new challenges to supply chain, and how manufacturers, suppliers, warehouses and ports and depots are handling these new realities.
As e-commerce continues to accelerate at lightning speed, companies around the globe are innovating to get their products from the warehouse to buyers’ doorsteps faster than ever. With a strategic location at the center of the U.S. East Coast and next door to the nation’s capital, Maryland is in a prime spot to take advantage of this growing trend. more....