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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

The service will soon expand to a third Walmart store in the same corner of Arkansas. The words “avian flu” often trigger alarm bells for the majority of the population, as was evident with the avian flu outbreaks in the US that led to the culling of hundreds of thousands of chickens and turkeys in 2015 and 2017.

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Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

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And on the subject of sustainability, SCDigest.com covered Walmart’s 2015 Sustainability report : Walmart, the world’s largest corporation, is fresh out with its 2015 sustainability report, the eighth such document it has produced. Sources: “Annual Financials for Wal-Mart Stores Inc.” ” Walmart states early on.

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24 supply chain experts & business leaders reveal the #1 challenge of supply chain management (and how to solve it)

6 River Systems

“They have multi-sourced key commodities or strategic components to reduce their reliance on any one supplier, and they had considered inventory strategy to buffer against supply chain disruption.” These risks come from a variety of sources, such as demands from the customers, a swinging political agenda and global sourcing.