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This Week in Logistics News (October 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

The company says it will be profitable in 2023 and is telling investors it plans to reach $1 billion in sales in 2025. And now on to this week’s logistics news. The timing is particularly bad, with the shipping industry already facing congested supply lines that are delaying deliveries of clothes and toys for the year-end holidays.

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The Importance of Transportation Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

I am working on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2025, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode.

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The Changing Landscape of Real Estate in the Logistics Industry

Logistics Bureau

This article delves into the changes that new commercial business models, customer expectations, and technology are bringing about in the logistics environment, focusing particularly on how those changes are impacting the planning, procurement, design, layout, and operation of distribution centres. The Changing Face of the DC.

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Is Saint-Gobain Serious About Reducing Their Carbon Footprint?

Logistics Viewpoints

Saint-Gobain also has a goal for organic growth of 3 – 5% through 2025. However, their carbon reduction goals for their value chain operations for 2030 will not be changed. To support supply chain operations, Saint-Gobain has a Transport Control Tower. appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints. and Data Science.

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Editor’s Choice: The Ultimate Guide to Reducing Warehouse Travel

Logistics Viewpoints

Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Choice” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. Labor is the single largest operating cost in most DCs and warehouse travel often accounts for half of all labor time, especially in order picking. According to U.S.

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Bed-in-a-box eRetailers Make Fulfillment Sexy

FLEXE

It illustrates the obstacles facing mattress fulfillment and the opportunities with a variable cost supply chain. The bed-in-a-box industry faces a handful of supply chain obstacles that are unique to its industry: Mattresses are big, bulky and expensive to ship long distances. Fixed vs. Variable Supply Chain Costs.

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Blue Yonder Wins AI Breakthrough Award

BlueYonder

Leading logistics teams are leveraging robotics, collaborative robots (cobots), drones, and a variety of automation tools such as picking bots to complement their human capabilities. This may cause disparate views for operations managers to handle, leading to islands of automation within the same warehouse or distribution center (DC).