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Mexico Transportation Risk with Mark Vickers

The Logistics of Logistics

While Mark was getting Borderless off the ground, he was on the leadership team at Sedlak Supply Chain Consultants where he worked with 3PLs and shippers to optimize their distribution network, technology, and processes including TMS and WMS selection and implementation. Borderless Coverage was acquired by Reliance Partners in February 2021.

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Did the Pandemic Derail the Smart Cities Movement?

Enterra Insights

The staff at the Cleveland Clinic explains, “Your spinal cord is a cylindrical structure that runs through the center of your spine, from your brainstem to your low back. Smart cities ensure efficient transit systems, electricity distribution, and garbage collection through technology and data.”[4]. ”[4].

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Achieving Healthcare Transformation, Powered by Supply Chain

ivalua

Shift towards self-contracting and self-distribution: With health systems gaining significant scale and wanting more control over their supply chain, this shift is accelerating. BSW built up a leading supply chain function and established a self-distribution model, all of which helped to improve overall margins. Share on Twitter.

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What Caused the Baby Formula Shortage + 7 Ways Consumers and Companies are Coping

ToolsGroup

Robert Cleveland, Rickitt’s Senior Vice-President, North America and Europe Nutrition, shared that, in addition to giving plants “unlimited overtime,” they are focusing on shipping at speed: “We normally might pack an entire truck before we ship it. For timeliness, we’re not doing that.

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Retailers receiving inventories any which way they can

Cathy Roberson

Floor & Decor is opening a new transload distribution facility in Los Angeles to allow it to “maximize cargo weight which will lead to fewer containers and drive ocean freight drayage savings,” according to the retailer’s CFO, Trevor Lang.

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Top 5 Markets for Dynamic Warehousing Demand

FLEXE

We’re seeing the highest demand in these cities and metros: #1 Cleveland, OH: With its award-winning port, superior access to interstate highways and highly ranked distribution infrastructure, the Cleveland Ohio area apparently has a lot of appeal for companies requiring warehouse space in the upper mid-west.

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

February 17, 2022, 12:01 AM EST. On the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, where the remains of a 200-year-old canal built to connect Cleveland with Cincinnati snake around new warehouse parks, a modern tributary of the global economy widens a little more with each planeload of goods that roars down its runways. Brendan Murray.

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