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Mexico Transportation Risk with Mark Vickers

The Logistics of Logistics

In 2016, he was recruited to join MacroPoint. While Mark was getting Borderless off the ground, he was on the leadership team at Sedlak Supply Chain Consultants where he worked with 3PLs and shippers to optimize their distribution network, technology, and processes including TMS and WMS selection and implementation.

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Freeports: The 2022 Guide

Unleashed

Goods in a free zone can be assembled, broken up, distributed, manufactured, processed, stored, sold, sorted or repacked – and then sent to another free zone or exported. In these zones manufacturing and production accounts for 70% of free trade activity, while warehousing and distribution makes up the remaining 30%.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #5

Supply Chain Trend

We quickly found the shelf stable SKUS were being planned on same system as weekly route distribution fried snacks produced daily and as such had dramatically different lead times of supply. I think the way Amazon sells other suppliers inventory is a simplistic finished good distribution example of S&OP.

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Introduction to Razorleaf, Arena’s Custom Integration Partner

Arena Solutions

That company is mainly based out of … if we had a headquarters, we would say Akron, Ohio, or out of Cleveland, Ohio. And then we also, I’d say well, since about 2016, we’ve had a Razorleaf Government Solutions business. In my example here, I’ll spin up a single job processor. The processor itself does all the hard work.