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The Better Goal: More Fuel Efficient Trucks or Using Fewer Trucks?

Talking Logistics

The other big opportunity, which despite all the talk over the years remains on the table, is reducing the number of trucks required to ship products by eliminating empty miles and backhauls, developing smarter packaging, optimizing trailer loading, collaborative shipping, and other approaches. percent improvement.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. As inventories dwindled, labor issues surfaced and shipping issues proliferated, supply chain teams began to accept that the only new normal was disruption. We will hold the event at the Westin, Dulles in Washington, DC. Lockdowns and Disbelief.

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Will Warehouses Eventually Go Dark?

Enterra Insights

Today’s warehouses are 143% larger than they were in 2007. Robotic systems will replace the labor demands of pickers, and automated packing and shipping will put warehousing on the forefront of technology. According to Patrick, the right kind of warehouse is big and technologically advanced. ” 3.

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Distribution in China takes a detour

Supply Chain Movement

In 2007, the Dutch producer of pushchairs relocated its factory from Taiwan to the free trade zone close to Xiamen in China. Regional DC. It therefore opened a regional distribution centre (DC) for those three countries, based in the same free trade zone as its existing factory. Free trade zone. Bugaboo opted for that solution.

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Supply Chain Leaders, Chained to Tradition, Face the Whip

Supply Chain Shaman

Price of Ocean Shipping Business Continuity. I then told them about working with a Fortune 500 Chemical Company in 2007. We are in the middle of planning for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 6th-8th in Washington, DC. Life for the supply chain leader is more complex. Baby formula. Semiconductors.

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The Top Logistics and Supply Chain Journalists & Thought Leaders to Know for 2020

Shipchain

Patrick Burnson is the Executive Editor at Logistics Management and Supply Chain Management Review, a role he’s filled since 2007. Mitch MacDonald is the Group Editorial Director for DC Velocity and CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly. Her logistics’ interests include digital transformation, intermodal shipping, and cross-border transport.