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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

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For those unaware of the term, shrink is an accounting term used to describe when a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded book inventory. The goal is to reduce or avoid one billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gasses from the global value chain by 2030.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 5 – 11)

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The firms are on course to add 115,000 jobs by 2030, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association — but at current degree completion rates, the group says, nearly three-fifths of those jobs could remain unfilled. Texas led the expansion of hiring, followed by North Carolina and New York. The trade deficit contracted 4.1

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

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Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities. Famous Pacific Shipping Group ).

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2014 : hybrid DCs, 3-D prototypes, location-based inventory system, and more. It will allow for the automation of more complex warehousing tasks, such as unloading shipping containers and picking packets or individual e-commerce orders. Warehouse Automation. Media Type. Privacy Settings. Media Type.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 2 – 8)

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The Staten Island facility, known as JFK8, is Amazon’s largest in New York and now has the distinction of being the first in the US to unionize by voting in the Amazon Labor Union. Staten Island workers could challenge the company’s current labor model, which is the backbone of its Prime two-day shipping promise.

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How To Make Your Ecommerce Eco-Friendly

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All aspects of ecommerce can negatively impact the planet — from the product itself to how it is packaged and shipped. Here are the facts: Each year in the US alone, enough cardboard is used in shipped packages that equates to over 1 billion trees (excludes plastic and other forms of packaging). Offer carbon offsets for shipping.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 17 – 23)

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Focal Systems’ solution is integrated with Walmart Canada’s existing inventory systems to automatically detect availability concerns and direct store teams to replenish products. The hiring commitments were announced Monday at an event in New York organized by the Tent Partnership for Refugees, which is pressing corporations to hire refugees.