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5 Best Logistics Books to Keep Within Reach

Supply Chain Opz

Then, we use these criteria to rank the books, - Practicality: we look closely at how each book can provide basic concepts and strategies of the "Integrated Logistics Functions", namely, customer service, purchasing, production planning, warehousing, and transportation in a clear and concise manner. He has an MBA from UCLA.

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All Eyes Remain Focused on the Last Mile

Enterra Insights

The exceptions were goods purchased from mail-order catalogs. Andrew Chung, CEO of Innovo Property Group, explains, “[The] explosive growth of online purchasing and competition among online retailers has resulted in a race to reach consumers. The last mile of most traditional logistics’ journeys ended at a retail store.

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How Can Manufacturers Manage Disruption and Improve Productivity?

Logility

Over time, ineffective quality control processes will affect customer satisfaction, buying behaviors, and ultimately lead to lost market share. The term of art is data warehousing. Data warehousing builds a common repository that allows you to work with your information with a myriad of information access and visualization tools.

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10 Wholesale Distribution Industry Trends for 2022 and Beyond

Unleashed

Global supply chain disruption, rapid technological evolution, changing buying and selling habits – wholesale distributors have had to deal with some rapid and radical changes over the past couple of years. In 2017 it showed the world the D2C trend was coming by slashing its 30,000 retail partners down to just 40. What do you do best?

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How Can Manufacturers Manage Disruption and Improve Productivity?

Logility

Over time, ineffective quality control processes will affect customer satisfaction, buying behaviors, and ultimately lead to lost market share. The term of art is data warehousing. Data warehousing builds a common repository that allows you to work with your information with a myriad of information access and visualization tools.

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Amazon’s Freight (Train) Is Coming

GlobalTranz

Editor’s Note: This article is from Steve Bettwy , Vice President – Quality and Business Continuity, Operational Excellence, and Continuous Improvement at Direct Supply. Amazon announced that it shipped 5 billion items through Prime alone in 2017, and some analysts estimate it will ship over 4 billion packages in 2018.

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Leading a Logistics Biz Turnaround with Harry Drajpuch

The Logistics of Logistics

Prior to being appointed CEO at Amware Fulfillment in December 2017, he was COO of the firm, responsible for technology and the performance of 8 nationwide fulfillment centers. These services include: Warehousing: Amware Fulfillment has a network of warehouses across the United States, where it can store clients’ products.