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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Expand the “FLOW” program for logistics information sharing to forecast transportation flow. The result was restatement. My conclusion?

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St.

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Ferguson’s Commitment to Supply Chain Excellence Drives Customer Satisfaction

Logistics Viewpoints

The company sources goods from 36,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. We also opened one in Toronto and we have one opening up in the next several months in Nashville. In Nashville, we are looking at adding a second level of robotics, a shuttle system manufactured by TGW. 22,000 containers move annually through 52 ports.

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Reverse Logistics emerging from the "dark side" and into earnings calls

Cathy Roberson

I missed sending out a post last week and really am sorry about that but…here’s my excuse…I was at the Reverse Logistics Association (RLA) Leadership Conference last week. Reverse logistics is a fascinating part of supply chains that tends to get overlooked by many. Hey there! by industry and lots more.

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RLA Inaugural Startup Pitch Contest

Cathy Roberson

The biggest retail challenges from the NRF and Appriss survey include the following: Self-service returns Damaged returns or policy abuse Re-processing goods at a warehouse on digital returns Indeed, a lot of work still needs to be done in reverse logistics. Tompkins Robotics – Expanded its reverse logistics capabilities in 2018.

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Singing the inventory blues

Cathy Roberson

Consumers have not necessarily put the brakes on buying stuff, and it's just that some consumers are being more mindful of what to purchase thanks to inflation. We already have a number of initiatives underway to reduce our inventory, and we expect by year-end that our inventory units will be below last year's level.

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Top 10 Companies with Best Corporate Responsibility Records

Material Handling & Logistics

Also in 2017, 76% of the company’s 10 priority ingredients were sustainably sourced. They plan to produce/procure 35% of electricity from renewable sources by 2020 and aspire to power all facilities with renewable energy by 2050. Smokeless Tobacco canning process taken at the Nashville, Tenn. manufacturing facility.