Tom BurtonCo-Founder, COO and CTO of LeadSmart Technologies

How do we avoid the chaos of another potential dock strike? #supplychain

Name: How do we avoid the chaos of another potential dock strike? #supplychain
Uploaded: 2024-10-07T18:00:00+00:00
Duration: 55 s
Channel: Tom Burton
Description: Tom Burton explains how manufacturers are moving production and warehousing closer to customers across the U.S. to reduce delivery times and shield…

7 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Tom Burton explains how manufacturers are moving production and warehousing closer to customers across the U.S. to reduce delivery times and shield themselves from dock strikes. Companies that were once east-coast based are now opening west-coast facilities as part of a decade-long shift toward shorter domestic supply chains.

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You know, there again there's a number of manufacturers that are looking at different ways to shorten up the supply chain, which has been an issue for it's not like this happened, you know, last weekend. This has been going on for more than a decade. I think, you know, it's so much we certainly hear about a number of our manufacturers just within the 48 states or like we're, you know, we're we're opening up new warehousing or new production facilities on the west coast because we were east coast based and we don't want to make people wait two days to get copper wire or fittings or whatever it might happen to be. So I mean, we're we hear that a lot. And that's going to be again, I think that's going to be a key to some of these problems is shortening up that supply chain, distance from where a product is made to where it gets delivered.