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Achieving Significant Transportation Savings through Improved Demand Forecasting

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to distribution, primary distribution involves getting big bulk deliveries by pipeline and truck to their manufacturing sites. Secondary distribution involves using their trucks to deliver propane from their manufacturing and intermediate storage facilities to the customer.

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

Orders are typically placed by different factions within a single facility, and fulfilled by multiple manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors. Centralisation then, is all about taking procurement and logistics out of the hands of medical professionals and placing it under its own governance structure. Self-distribution.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 27 – March 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

Walmart drops $35 minimum purchase for 2-hour delivery. Part of the reason for the new timeframe is the partnership announced by Merck and Johnson & Johnson to manufacture the vaccine. Lawmakers have also urged the White House to pressure chip manufacturers to boost the auto chip supply. Descarets acquires QuestaWeb.