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This Week in Logistics News (February 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

The initiative involves placing RFID tags on packages and wearable devices on employees to eliminate manual scans, reduce misloads, and accelerate parcel throughput in the delivery giant’s warehouses. The Port of Long Beach blamed shifts in consumer demand and shipping patterns for the 28.4

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. It is safe to say that if a warehouse operation is not implementing Lean, it is falling behind its competition. But, it can be overdone. What can you do?

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2021 Supply Chain Challenges: The Top 5 Lessons Learned + Tips from 11 Industry Experts

ToolsGroup

It’s time to re-think how our products are manufactured and distributed. Lesson #2: Finding solutions in warehouses and distribution centers. “We And having multiple smaller warehouses in strategic locations can enable you to do this – especially in the beverage industry.

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The Parable of Walmart, Target Stores and Vertical Farming

Supply Chain Collaborator

Case in point, the Wall Street Journal reports that these three giants (among others) have reshaped their logistics plans to avoid US West Coast-bound ocean routes (and the subsequent OTR and rail routes) due to recent labor-dispute-driven disruptions at ports in Long Beach and Oakland.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Ryder Forms Strategic Partnership with Plug and Play to Support Development of Innovative Supply Chain and Logistics Startups. The nation’s top ports of entry, Los Angeles-Long Beach and New York-New Jersey, in October imported a combined 1,031,127 20-foot-equivalent units…That amounted to a 2.5%

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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

To drive progressive change, I think that we need to rethink supply chain basics and unlearn from the past while driving process innovation. The warehouse was bursting at the seams and the calculation did not seem quite right. Insufficient warehouse capacity and a lack of containers while supply chain shortages make headline news.

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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

To drive progressive change, I think that we need to rethink supply chain basics and unlearn from the past while driving process innovation. The warehouse was bursting at the seams and the calculation did not seem quite right. Insufficient warehouse capacity and a lack of containers while supply chain shortages make headline news.