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Predict and Prevent Freight Damage with Ilya Preston

The Logistics of Logistics

Ilya earned a Bachelor of Science in International Business from the University of Indianapolis. Prior to his time in consulting, Ilya was a Supply Chain Strategy Manager at Cummins Inc, where he oversaw $100M in spend and was responsible for developing the commodity strategy for sheet metal fabrication and raw metal purchases. About PAXAFE.

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How Will You Compete with Amazon with Charley Dehoney

The Logistics of Logistics

Previously, Dehoney served as CEO of Manning’s Truck Brokerage, a 50-year-old, logistics company acquired in 2020 by Fitzmark, Inc. FitzMark is a leading Indianapolis-based transportation and logistics provider. Fitzmark has warehousing locations in Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, and Indianapolis. About Fitzmark.

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Addressing Labor Shortages in Warehouse and DC Operations

NC State SCRC

facility at an Indianapolis, Ind., Contingent workforces are also a trend occurring in the general industry, as a study by Intuit showed that by 2020, 43% of the American workforce (7.6M) would be independent contractors (contingent workers). Those skills led him to a part-time job at a FedEx Corp.

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Walmart Rolling Out Four High-Tech FCs

Multichannel Merchant

Successive FCs will open next spring in McCordsville, IN, near Indianapolis; in Lancaster, TX near Dallas in the fall of 2023; and in Greencastle, PA, about 100 miles northwest of Baltimore and Washington, DC sometime in 2024. It launched in the fall of 2020 after some false starts. in a blog post.

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COVID Variant Surges and Labor Shortage Lead to FedEx Freight Suspension, Heighten Need for Freight Bill Auditing Services

Intelligent Audit

They were also the highest numbers since the agency started taking the survey in April 2020 — well over last January’s peak of 6.6 The storm’s effect on the Memphis and Indianapolis hubs created hazardous operating conditions, according to FedEx. million workers out.”

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Stord Partners with IPG to Launch New Warehouse Collaboration After Centralizing eCommerce Operations with a Single Integration to Connect Their ERP to Stord’s Omni-Channel Distribution Network

Stord

ATLANTA, September 30, 2020 -- Stord announces this week the recent completion of Intertape Polymer Group Inc.’s Then the IPG team was introduced to Stord, who set up a forward stocking location for IPG in Indianapolis.