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This Week in Logistics News (April 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

The made-to-fit boxes, along with other efforts to reduce the use of cardboard, have cut the average weight of packaging used per shipment by 38 percent since 2015. In January, the retailer widened the digital marketplace to 34 more stores in Massachusetts, following its implementation in 70 locations across its footprint.

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New Year’s Resolution #1 for Supply Chain Planners: Improve Performance Measurement

Demand Solutions

Over my next few articles, I’ll share some tips on the kinds of resolutions you can put in place to get your supply chain performance back on track in 2015. When an item is out of stock in their Massachusetts warehouse, they’ll overnight it from their Texas warehouse just to make sure they fill the order.

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The Supply Chain Professional of the Future Will Need These 4 Skills

Logility

Recent interviews of several Gen Z PhD candidates at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory yielded the following insights: “We aren’t separated by great differences in raw intelligence. Gen Z is the newest named generation, and were born between 1995 and 2015.

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6 River Systems named to RBR50 by Robotics Business Review

6 River Systems

6 River Systems was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 2015 by Jerome Dubois, Rylan Hamilton and Chris Cacioppo. To see who was listed in the 2019 RBR50 report, please visit Robotics Business Review. About 6 River Systems. Jerome and Rylan were previously executives at Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics).

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Chipotle: The Latest Example of Why Supply Chain Risk Management Matters

Talking Logistics

Over the past two years, I’ve addressed those questions in various posts (see links below), but you have to look no further than Chipotle’s Q4 2015 financial results for the answers. The fourth quarter of 2015 was the most challenging period in Chipotle’s history,” said Steve Ells, founder, chairman and co-CEO of Chipotle.

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Jerome Dubois of 6 River Systems named a 2019 supply chain Pro to Know

6 River Systems

6 River Systems was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 2015 by Jerome Dubois, Rylan Hamilton and Chris Cacioppo. About 6 River Systems. Jerome and Rylan were previously executives at Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics).

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Globalization? Or Globaloney?

Supply Chain Insights

So, I formally invite you, all of my fellow supply chain gurus, to our Supply Chain Insights Global Summit —September 9-10, 2015 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ—where you’ll get to hear about how the future trends of trade for the global multinational will change your business, your career; and well, your world.

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