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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Last night, I took my 13-year-old son to see the movie Air, which tells the story of how Nike pursued basketball rookie Michael Jordan in 1984 to sign with the company. That move, and Michael Jordan’s incredible talent and business acumen, has turned the Jordan brand into a multi-billion-dollar business.

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How E-Commerce Is Reinventing the Humble Warehouse

MIT Supply Chain

Nowhere are these changes more evident than in warehousing. The warehouse, a mainstay of supply chains, is getting a makeover as retailers move closer to customers so they can fulfill buyers’ unquenchable thirst for instant gratification. This is one of many fulfillment strategies retailers are adopting to ride the e-commerce wave.

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COVID-19 accelerates four trends and changes within global supply chains

Proxima

Whether warehousing, automation, freight, retail or e-commerce, business leaders needed to evaluate and address many or all in order to maintain their supply chains and keep up with the demand, which in turn, was drastically altered by the pandemic. What is the right strategy? • How do I integrate the strategy across the business?

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Supply chain & logistics webinar

Proxima

At our recent webinar, held with Supply Chain and Logistics consultancy Hatmill, Proxima’s Simon Geale welcomed Joe Metcalf, Johnathan Foster, Neil Jordan, and Simon Dixon to discuss their advice on the tools needed now to achieve supply chain and logistics success across: warehousing, automation, freight, and reverse logistics.

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Supply Chain Risk Management Highlighted by a Tiny Computer Chip

Enterra Insights

Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley explain what happened next.[2]. Most business leaders intuitively know burying their heads in the sand with regards to risk management is a losing strategy — even if they can’t effectively measure the ROI of preventative and mitigating measures. That assessment turned up a troubling discovery.

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Revealed: The Sectors Cutting Product Lead Times Fastest

Unleashed

One reason is that manufacturers and logistics firms stepped up their digital strategies during this time in response to the crisis. Food (fruit and veg, prepared meals etc) 56.14% Electronics, telecommunication 54.90% Health, medical supplies and equipment 53.69% Office equipment and supplies 51.73% Clothing, footwear and accessories 49.86%.

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Google Express, Its Supply Chain & Viability

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Aaron Kaplan, Eunice Cho, Jordan Sugar, Poornima Nookala, Shoaib Bharmal, Vishal Vibhandik, and Felipe Caro. Amazon offers a similar expedited delivery service to customers through Amazon Prime Now, but it has different pricing and execution strategies compared to Google Express.