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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

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Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well. Even Amazon used third-party logistics companies when the company first started, until reaching sufficient scale to have a logistics arm of its own.

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Supply Chain Risk: It’s Not Whether Severe Weather, but When

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”[1] To learn how much of a concern climate change is becoming for supply chain operations, Resilinc partnered with the University of Maryland and other academics to answer questions like: “How exposed is our global supply chain network? Which critical sites have the highest exposure in terms of revenue impact?

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Accenture Acquires Global Logistics Consulting Firm Flo Group Global based consulting and other services firm Accenture has reportedly acquired European based global logistics consulting services firm Flo Group. The deal reportedly will further enhance Oracle’s logistics software deployment capabilities across Europe.

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Thanksgiving 2018

Enterra Insights

At the original Thanksgiving feast, the pickings were much slimmer and all ingredients were sourced locally. 1] She note there are only two known historical sources describing the three-day long feast shared by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag natives at Plymouth Colony in 1621.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

However, for one man in Maryland, none of that matters. The 65-year-old Accekeek, Maryland man bought 15 identical tickets for the same lottery drawing. And now on to this week’s logistics news. The company in the past year revamped its logistics network, enabling faster and more efficient deliveries.

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Find the Money – How a Transportation Spend Diagram Can Help

Talking Logistics

Typical sources of this data are the accounts payable department, which could or should be capturing comprehensive information from the carrier invoices. In most cases, you will build the Spend Diagram using data from all of the sources above. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

I saw an interesting story earlier this week about how a police department in a small Maryland city is using drones in its effort to thwart illegal dirt bike riding within city limits. And now on to this week’s logistics news. The logistics provider has already deployed 3,000 AMRs globally with over 2,000 in North America.