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This Week in Logistics News (April 29 – May 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

But I also found it interesting that Dick Morley , the father of the PLC (programmable logic controllers to you non-geeks), organized geek pride days in New Hampshire as early as 2001. Why do I find this interesting? Well, ARC Advisory Group , the owner of Logistics Viewpoints, has been conducting research on the PLC market for decades.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 9-13, 2013)

Talking Logistics

They have engineered new strategies for jockeying inventory across the country to avoid overstocks and markdowns and to keep customers from defecting to Amazon, a big problem last year. . on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), which began in 2001, and it’s still not completed. UPS and FedEx. Just saying. imports and exports.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Just-in-time (JIT) inventory management became crucial to the nation’s meteoritic industrial growth, including Toyota’s eclipsing North American and European automakers as the world’s largest automakers for their time. A world transformed. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86 billion metric tons as of 2017.