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Preparing Your Supply Chain for the Holidays

Talking Logistics

Some hire additional workers, others rent out warehouse space or fill stores’ back rooms with extra stock. Following the Great Recession of 2008, unemployment rates have been steadily decreasing, currently resting at 3.7% With fewer people unemployed, more money is circulating around the economy and consumers can purchase more goods.

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The Annual State of U.S. Logistics Report – Added Candidness and Need for More Synchronization

Supply Chain Matters

Since the inception of this blog in 2008, Supply Chain Matters has provided perspectives and takeaway thoughts from each annual report. GDP level, and a level not seen since 2008. Rising Costs of Warehousing. Warehouse vacancy rates reportedly fell from 5.1 Warehouse vacancy rates reportedly fell from 5.1

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Google Will Acquire a 3PL – And Other Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2015

Talking Logistics

made that prediction in 2008 (see the Barron’s article What $300-a-Barrel Oil Will Mean for You ). And its technology assets too, like the Kiva robots Amazon purchased [in 2012] and the data centers that power its cloud computing services. Amazon Inside P&G Warehouses: A Case of “What’s In It for We”. The Google TMS?

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A Conversation with Vittorio Favati, TVS Supply Chain Solutions GFS

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

I had the opportunity to work with several excellent organisations, most notably, nearly 20 years with Ceva (including EGL or Eagle Global Logistcis) and now TVS SCS. We organically manage TVS “Centres of Excellence” where we centralise processes and work that does not need to happen in our branch offices. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Why investors are looking at supply chain technologies in 2020

Requis

You’re going to need to buy more machinery, etc., But if the pitch is around, ‘we have to deploy this because it’s accurately going to predict what’s going to happen for our customers, because if we don’t they’re going to buy from another company’—that will work.”. Excellent potential. and so you have costs going up.”.