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‘Just Get Me a Box’: Inside the Brutal Realities of Supply Chain Hell
The people in charge of getting packages to your door are battling the pandemic, a labor shortage, and sky-high demand.
17 Sep 2021, 09:32 AM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- It’s mid-August, and logistics manager RoxAnne Thomas’s phone won’t stop pinging. Her faucets, sinks, and toilets are waylaid near Shanghai, snagged in Vancouver, and buried under a pile of shipping containers in a rail yard outside Chicago. As U.S. transportation manager for Gerber Plumbing Fixtures LLC, a unit of Taiwan’s Globe Union Industrial Corp. that’s based in Woodridge, Ill., Thomas is trying to...
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