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Supply Chain Risk: It’s Not Whether Severe Weather, but When

Enterra Insights

”[5] Austin Becker, a maritime infrastructure resilience scholar at the University of Rhode Island, told Leslie, the pandemic is “a temporary problem,” while climate change is “long-term dire” problem. The previous record for billion-dollar events in a year was 16, in 2017 and 2011. In 2021, the U.S.

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Target Expands Curbside Pickup to 1,550 Stores for Back to School

Multichannel Merchant

Markets being added to Drive Up service include Massachusetts (Boston metro area, Springfield, Worcester), Rhode Island (Providence/Warwick), Maine (Portland, Augusta, Bangor) and New Hampshire (Manchester, Concord, Keene). The service was first introduced by Target in 2017 in its native Minneapolis, and has been growing ever since.

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Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Logistics: Insights from the Annual WERC Conference

FLEXE

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the annual WERC (Warehouse Education Research Council) conference in Providence, Rhode Island. We look forward to seeing everyone at WERC 2017! I’ll wrap up by sharing this side-by-side comparison presented at the conference.

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Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Logistics: Insights from the Annual WERC Conference

FLEXE

<p>Last week I had the pleasure of attending the annual <a href="[link] target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WERC</a> (Warehouse Education Research Council) conference in Providence, Rhode Island. </p>

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Most Important U.S. Infrastructure to Build is within its Borders

Enterra Insights

The 2017 report card assigns an overall D+ to America’s infrastructure highlighting just how serious the problem is. Annually, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) publishes a report card on the state of U.S. infrastructure assigning letter grades to each infrastructure segment. Bridges: C+.

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What a Biden Presidency Could Mean for the Automotive Industry

QAD

When Donald Trump took office in 2017, he promised to reduce and reverse automotive regulations set by the Obama Administration and lighten the compliance requirements for the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and Green House Gas (GHG) programs. environmental regulations’ ambition. . From Trump to Biden. The Future with Biden.