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What’s Good for Consumer Goods Manufacturing?

USC Consulting Group

What’s on the road ahead for consumer goods manufacturing? Although the industry is multifaceted and varied, encompassing everything from household goods to food & beverage to apparel and more, most arms of the consumer goods industry are facing similar challenges. Supply chain woes.

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[PODCAST] Why Shippers Looking for Capacity & High Service Levels Need the Right Carrier Mix & Logistics Fundamentals Focus

GlobalTranz

On today’s episode we welcome Andrew Lynch, Co-Founder & President of Zipline Logistics, an award-winning logistics service provider that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods and food and beverage products. We hope you enjoy “The Freight Project Podcast.” Download E-Book.

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Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide

Logistics Viewpoints

Witron is especially strong in the development of large-scale, highly automation warehouses for customers in the food and beverage value chain, including manufacturers, distributors, and grocers. From an industry perspective, the company is focused on fashion and apparel, grocery, and industrial and consumer goods. Lee Partners.

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Planning Food Logistics Efficiently in Times of Disruption

DELMIA Quintiq

Planning and optimization software, powered by mathematical optimization, can perform calculations based on all available data sources to generate optimal plans It will help your planners manage existing resources and constraints to meet your business goals.

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Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap

Logistics Viewpoints

DCs can initially deploy a handful of robots as transporters, or add automated lift trucks for a proportion of inbound full pallet putaway without betting their business on end-to-end automation. Ecommerce has thrust DCs into the limelight and elevated distribution as a source of potential competitive advantage, or disadvantage.

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Evans Distribution Systems Launches New Business Intelligence Tool: evans365

3PL Insights

Evans365 accesses and analyzes data sets from Evans’ warehouse management system and other data sources and presents findings graphically. We will continue to improve evans365 by integrating additional data sources and providing even more valuable metrics,” Evans says. This is only the beginning.

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Oil & Gas Companies Focus on Eliminating Supply Chain Waste

Talking Logistics

One area where significant waste exists is transportation management. Simply put, many oil and gas companies manage their transportation operations in a highly decentralized and fragmented manner with little or no technology. Source: “The Future of Natural Gas: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study,” [link].