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This Week in Logistics News (April 22-26, 2019)

Talking Logistics

link] pic.twitter.com/d9AjhfPNN1 — Daniel Sinclair (@_DanielSinclair) April 25, 2019. Here’s a video of the drone in action: This news follows last month’s announcement by UPS that it is collaborating with Matternet to deliver medical samples via unmanned drones at WakeMed’s flagship hospital and campus in the Raleigh, N.C.

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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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Procurement Leadership Program can help individuals market the real value of procurement to the enterprise

NC State SCRC

The four day workshop, being held December 9 – 13, 2019 in Raleigh, will focus on how procurement and supply chain leaders need to better sell the value of procurement to the organization. And when I say value, I mean more than just cost savings, or the infamous “purchase price avoidance” metric.

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Advantages of Basing Your Distribution Center in North Carolina

Kanban Logistics

In 2019, FORBES Magazine ranked North Carolina the “ Best State for Business ” for the third year in a row. More rural locations such as in the Eastern part of the state have even lower costs – despite their ideal logistics footprints – than Raleigh and other metropolitan areas. North Carolina business at a glance.