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The State of Home Delivery: Plenty of Room for Improvement

Logistics Viewpoints

Earlier in 2022, we conducted a survey of 8,000 consumers across North America and Europe to get a better sense of their ecommerce experience and how they were reacting to retailer performance. On one hand, consumers expect to increase their online purchases post-pandemic. Source: Descartes & SAPIO Research.

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REPOST: 3 Emerging Supply Chain Trends with Steve Elwell

The Logistics of Logistics

He is an expert in the growth and turnaround of small and medium manufacturing, logistics, and technology businesses. Areas of focus include new market entry, new product development, sales effectiveness, partnerships and alliances, operational excellence, and financial management. Trend #2: Near sourcing and shorter supply chains.

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“Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste” – Key Insights from the Automotive Logistics

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.” – Sir Winston Churchill Having just returned from the 2023 Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Global conference in Detroit, these words are very fitting to encapsulate the essence of the event. Short-term visibility at the Purchase Order/ASN level is insufficient.

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3 Emerging Supply Chain Trends with Steve Elwell

The Logistics of Logistics

He is an expert in the growth and turnaround of small and medium manufacturing, logistics, and technology businesses. Areas of focus include new market entry, new product development, sales effectiveness, partnerships and alliances, operational excellence, and financial management. Trend #2: Near sourcing and shorter supply chains.

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries. The sourcing centers shipped over 130,000,000 pounds of product last year. The company needs a very complete product line.

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Save $100 Million in Sourcing with GTC Software

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MIC was recognized by Ford Motor Company as a top-performing global supplier at Ford’s 23rd annual World Excellence Awards. The automaker would make sure that no matter what version of the Mustang is made, at least 75% of the content is from North America. GTC Software is not just about Compliance.

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Yards Are Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

Managing yard and warehouse operations has long been one of the thornier aspects of transportation logistics. Create a facilities “Center of Excellence.” He founded FourKites in 2014 after recognizing pain points in the logistics industry and designing elegant and effective systems to address them.