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What is Supply Chain Compliance and Why is it Important?

AB&R

It’s one of our top six trends we’re following in 2019, and we have decades of experience in this area. In addition, several agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) require unique device identifiers (UDI) usually in the form of barcodes to contain information such as manufactured date and lot number to provide traceability.

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Freight Volume Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Zipline Logistics

Volume increases started mid-last week and have steadily climbed since then, exceeding 2019 levels. According to an article published in FreightWaves , “ Tender volumes are racing to the upside and are tracking positive year-over-year in May, albeit off of a depressed 2019 comparison. Arkansas ? . California ? . Kentucky ?

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This Week in Logistics News (March 25-29, 2019)

Talking Logistics

I’ve been trying to learn the basics of the game, and as luck would have it, at the Descartes Evolution 2019 conference this week (more about the conference in a future post), I sat with a Descartes executive who is an experienced rugby player — he even coached the women’s team at his university. For Power Tools Sold In Iran.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 25 – 31)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the spring of 2022, Walmart created a new position among the roughly 15,000 employees who work at its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart originally set the target in the summer of 2019, a couple months after unveiling plans for a new 350-acre corporate campus. crumbling infrastructure and manufacturing.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

Frozen dairy manufacturers reduce packaging footprint. Walmart, along with its partner DroneUp, now operates drone delivery hubs in seven states, including Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Biden climate blueprint promotes modal shift away from trucks. US container imports tumbled in December.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

6 River Systems

“Artificial intelligence is going to have a large impact on logistics in 2019…” . In 2019, gathering unique data will be more prominent in the brains of logistic companies. “Data science can bring great gains for…” Logistics efforts of retailers and manufacturers. Brian Jessup. brianjessup.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

Rivian and Amazon struck a deal in 2019 to hand over 100,000 electric trucks to the e-commerce giant. To that end, it has set greenhouse gas emissions goals, vowing to limit its Scopes 1 and 2 emissions by 50 percent by 2030, using 2019 as its baseline. The company is also working on a forthcoming R2 model and is in need of cash.