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Editor’s Choice: 4 Factors to Determine if Self-Distribution is a Viable Alternative for your Health System

Logistics Viewpoints

Lucas Systems customer Baptist Health, whose network includes 12 hospitals and more than 150 physician practices and outpatient facilities spanning four counties, adopted a self-distribution strategy in 2015. Healthcare supply chains can also have precise shipping and storage requirements for medicines and other biologically at-risk supplies.

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Doing Business in China

QAD

Key industries include mining, iron, steel, aluminum, coal, machinery, arms, textiles and apparel, oil, cement, chemicals, consumer products, footwear, toys, electronics, food, transportation equipment, automobiles, railcars, ships, aircraft, telecommunications equipment, satellites and commercial space launch vehicles. as of 2018.

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DIM Weight Pricing Explained!

Supply Chain Game Changer

E-Commerce/Last Mile Delivery: Stop Shipping Air and Empty Boxes! The 2014 holiday season marked the last Q4 end-of-year sales period where packages shipped based on actual weight. With the start of 2015, UPS and FedEx instituted a dimensional (DIM) weight pricing structure. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer.

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How Growing Consumer Demand is Reshaping Logistics

Elementum

billion in 2015 to US $548.22 In a recent report, analysts from a real-estate brokerage firm estimated that an increase of US $1 in average hourly wages could add over US $1 million in annual costs to a warehouse operation with 500 employees. million in 2015, up 110% from 2014. e-commerce sales will grow from US $349.06

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The Future of Logistics—20 Trends to Follow in 2017

FLEXE

And second, forward-thinking “in the middle” players will show evidence of long-term viability as they begin to see positive results from in-store pickup, ship-from-store initiatives, and pop-up distribution solutions. This behavior will be rewarded with increased reward programs (free shipping, higher discounts, etc.)

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Dynamic Warehousing Quarterly Pricing Report

FLEXE

It’s an innovative, yet simple concept, that due to its broad-reaching network and data-rich SaaS technology, organically produces a unique dataset that provide insights into important trends in the warehousing, logistics and industrial real estate markets. In Q4 2015, stacked space took the lead by a significant margin.

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The Best is Yet to Come

3PL Insights

In a market where industrial real estate is at record-low vacancy rates; we were able to secure more than 700,000 square feet of additional warehousing space to support new and existing Evans customers. Our quality team worked hard to ensure that all of our facilities, including our new spaces, are ISO 2015:9001 certified.