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Reverse Logistics emerging from the "dark side" and into earnings calls

Cathy Roberson

Based on surveys that RLA has done in the past year, most returns are handled in-house and are often done in the same distribution centers where store/e-commerce inventory is kept. billion pounds since 2009. Since 2009, we have reduced our carbon emissions by 62% through investments in renewable energy and operational improvements.

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Coronavirus reminds us to review supply chain continuity plans

NC State SCRC

Real estate, travel, and professional services will be impacted, as people are quarantined and can no longer travel for professional conferences and busieness meetings.

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Supply Chain Management:Growing interest in sustainability from.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Logistics and Distribution. Distribution. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. April 2009. March 2009. February 2009. January 2009. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare. Hospitality and Leisure.

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The Challenges of Earning the Made in the USA Label

RFgen

GlobeSt.com, a real estate resource, reported that many companies want to use domestic options for future production. manufacturing increased by 45% between the years of 2009 and 2014. The price of raw materials, location of each process, distribution history and nationality of suppliers all play a part in the labeling decision.

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The Challenges of Earning the Made in the USA Label

RFgen

GlobeSt.com, a real estate resource, reported that many companies want to use domestic options for future production. manufacturing increased by 45% between the years of 2009 and 2014. The price of raw materials, location of each process, distribution history and nationality of suppliers all play a part in the labeling decision.

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Panama Canal Expansion

3PL Insights

But in reality, there has been much more vessel traffic than anyone ever envisioned: in 2009 alone, the traffic in the canal reached a whopping 299.1 The post Panama Canal Expansion appeared first on Evans Distribution. In 1934, experts estimated that the canal could accommodate a maximum capacity of about 80 million tons each year.

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Cloud-based Solutions Rise to the Top in This New Era

Arena Solutions

Since 2009, cloud computing spending has been reported to grow 4.5 One of the most common analogies used to describe the differences between the two is the “real-estate” example. In short, the Cloud shifts hosted data from on-premises servers to remote servers hosted on the internet—in the Cloud.