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This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

Micro-Warehouse Provider Pivots as Retail Consumer Market Shifts. since 2004, hit an all-time high of 4,586 points in late March. The cost to transport containerized goods peaked at unprecedented levels in late 2021. And now to this week’s logistics news…. Philly Cheesesteak Delivered by Drone?

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. The list goes on and on.

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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventory, in this time of uncertainty, is the organization’s most important buffer to protect against variability. However, organizations are not good at managing inventory. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle. Inventory. My takeaway?

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The Internet of Things in the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

And all of them expect to be connected to logistics providers transporting goods to and from various supply chain nodes. … Traditionally, inventory counts [have been] a complex exercise done manually about once a year but RFID technology enables retailers to monitor stock monthly bringing accuracy from 60% to over 90%.”

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Walmart Supply Chain: Building a Successful Integrated Supply Chain for Sustainable Competitive Advantage

SCMDOJO

By employing these technologies, Walmart gains valuable insights into customer buying behavior, sales trends, and inventory levels. The ability to analyze this data enables the retail giant to make informed decisions on product procurement, inventory management, and demand forecasting.

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Innovation with Reverse Logistics (Part 1 of 2)”.

ModusLink Corporation

It has its first definition published only in the beginning of the nineties by the Council of Logistics Management (Bri-2004, S. Products are received from the end-customer and transported back to the warehouse in question. 4) and thus still represents a young sector of Logistics.

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PINC Receives Significant Growth Equity Investment From Accel-KKR

PINC

However, with 66% of logistics budgets spent on moving only 10% of total inventory, the remaining 90% of inventory at rest is not optimized for bottom-line impact and efficiency gains. Gartner has estimated supply chain management software to be a $17 billion addressable market growing at approximately 10% a year.