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Securing the Pickleball Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

The finished products are then ready to be shipped to big box retailers like Target, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Walmart. They also ship to Amazon to support ecommerce sales. 40% of the finished goods are shipped directly to retail clients by their contract manufacturers. Securing the Pickleball Supply Chain Today, Ms.

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Painless Retail Returns with Christian Piller

The Logistics of Logistics

Christian Piller and Joe Lynch discuss painless retail returns. Christian is a co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Pollen, a technology platform revolutionizing the reverse supply chain for retailers with pickups from consumers’ doorsteps for less than a standard return shipping label. He is Purdue University’s Mitch E.

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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

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Retailers know firsthand how quickly the market can change. Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. The retailers feel the impacts of the recession fast and deeply.

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Peak Shipping Season Update: What’s Driving Change in the Industry?

GlobalTranz

The long and unpredictable peak shipping season continues to challenge supply chains. A 2021 Peak Shipping Season survey conducted by Edelman Intelligence found hiring to be a strong concern among supply chain decision makers with 90% having a strong need to increase hiring to account for peak season and beyond. Higher freight volumes.

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Containerized shipping joins modern financial world with CME futures

Freightos

The futures market is about far more than speculation – it’s how airlines can protect themselves against rising jet fuel costs or how international retailers protect against exchange rate fluctuations. And throughout it all, retailers and consumers paid the price. Take a global manufacturer and retailer of mattresses.

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Kimberly-Clark’s Digital Transformation of Shipping

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Weisenberger is leading their digitally enabled shipping initiative, she works in distribution operations rather than transportation. This is one of the company’s first steps to their digital transformation in shipping. Why does a driver have to get out of the truck and go into the shipping office and sign a shipping document?

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This Week in Logistics News (April 27 – May 3)

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Amazon in the news: Amazon’s Prime orders are getting delivered faster and faster Hawaiian Airlines slowly adds freighters for Amazon business Walmart in-store AI is giving employees advice on how to sell products USPS delivery unit proposal sparks service, cost concerns for shipping partners White House earmarks $1.5B