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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Spire provides real-time information and analytics based on global maritime automatic identification system (AIS) technology—Spire’s constellation of small satellites captures the courses and current status of container ships across the globe. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86 ” An expected global surprise.

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Crisis is an opportunity for speeding up Digital Transformation to enhance Agility, Resilience and Productivity – LogiSYM September 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

through this they can reduce their carbon footprint and prompt sustainable business practices. It is important for a business to be sustainable as consumers are increasingly supporting businesses which adopts/prompts sustainable business practices. This advancement has helped our clients to save few hundred dollars every week.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Attracting Millennials to Manufacturing: Understanding Millennial Experience in Order to Gain Talent

GlobalTranz

Editor’s Note: As an older Millennial who landed in Transportation Management & Logistics marketing, our target audience are manufacturers who ship freight. But, I would say that the collision of these two things, Manufacturing and Millennials, are truly vital to our economic sustainability.

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What is a 3PL?

6 River Systems

3PLs aren’t used exclusively by major enterprises; in fact, smaller companies often find it more financially sustainable to outsource activities such as warehousing and distribution to 3PLs compared to building and maintaining in-house business units dedicated to these functions. Some 3PLs even handle retail distribution and returns.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 27 – September 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

The retailer is taking a minority stake in Sustainable Beef, which plans to open a processing facility in North Platte, a small town in west-central Nebraska that is home to the former ranch of storied Western showman Buffalo Bill Cody. With nearly two open jobs for every unemployed worker, employers are bidding up wages: Total U.S.

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The Ultimate Guide to Beer Profit Margins & More

Unleashed

Euroboozer, a UK importer of craft brewed beers, states that for a London pub or bar gross profit has to be around 70% in order to be sustainable. Brewery software will capture all the costs of production, from raw materials to freight costs. It was popular in the 1970s but sales gradually dropped, until it hit a low in 2001.