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Meals on Wheels Case Study

My Office Apps

” In order to produce high-quality meals at this capacity, Meals on Wheels has designed large-scale food storage processes and systems that allows for more food products to be safely refrigerated and stored for use. Knowing exactly what we have on hand and where it is at any given moment is a huge time saver for our staff.

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Trends in Logistics Technology, according to Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. I think we could lose 10% of Capacity in many areas. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

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Fred Smith, FedEx founder and parcel industry pioneer, dies at 80

Freight Waves

In 1977, FedEx purchased seven Boeing 727 aircraft, each with a cargo capacity of 40,000 pounds – almost seven times that of the Dassault Falcon. In 2014, Fortune Magazine named him among the world’s 50 greatest leaders. It kept FedEx alive for one more week, according to a biography.

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1H 2025 Supply Chain in Numbers and Charts

Supply Chain Digest

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. I think we could lose 10% of Capacity in many areas. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

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Gartner on what Execs were Saying at Its 2025 Supply Chain Conference

Supply Chain Digest

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. I think we could lose 10% of Capacity in many areas. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.

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To Plan the Supply Chain, or Not

Supply Chain Digest

“Supply chain planners are often very skilled at mathematics and operational minutiae, but they typically haven’t mastered the storytelling skills required to make business cases for earlier, higher-quality engagement and for making strategic capacity investments to support future demand,” Aronow observes. In comparison, in 2000-2007 the U.S.

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Amazon Soon to Realize Important Robotics Milestone

Supply Chain Digest

market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. I think we could lose 10% of Capacity in many areas. companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S.