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This Week in Logistics News (January 20 – 26)

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The Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, which launched in April 2022, is still intent on finding and investing in startups that can help the e-commerce giant deliver goods faster, while improving the experience of customers as well as the employees who work in its warehouses and logistics departments. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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The $30 Billion Secret: How Amazon’s Logistics Saves You Time & Money

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With a wide array of products stored in its fulfillment centers, Amazon can consolidate orders and optimize its inventory management systems. To overcome this, Amazon has developed sophisticated inventory management systems that allow them to efficiently store and retrieve products from their fulfillment centers.

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Freeports: The 2022 Guide

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We answer all these questions and more – including how inventory management software will help you manage your supply chain for your freeport warehouse or factory. In this 2022 guide to freeports: What is a freeport? This helps to improve cash flow cycles and facilitate just-in-time inventory control.

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

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The agreement, sealed after two months of talks, could provide much-needed reassurance for impoverished countries that rely on Ukrainian or Russian grain—and the operators of some 70 cargo vessels currently under blockade in Ukrainian ports. So acute is the shortage of warehouse space that some companies are not merely stockpiling inventory.

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Top 10 supply chain trends for 2020

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Another example from fulfillment might involve things like faster alternate transportation route planning in case of the unexpected, or monitoring cargo temperature for shipments of perishable food or medicines. This example could apply to any collection of physical equipment, like a drilling rig or a refinery.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 6 – 12)

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Freight rates to stay high into 2022. According to a survey of owner-operators and small fleets conducted by Bloomberg and Truckstop.com, shippers will continue to see “robust” contractual pricing for moving their truckload freight heading into 2022 thanks to solid demand and lingering capacity constraints.