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5 Reasons to Leave Your 3PL with Shane Hanson

The Logistics of Logistics

Shane began his career working with the Wal-Mart Innovation Network, a group dedicated to providing market feasibility analysis to inventors and innovators. Shane completed his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Missouri State University while working with the Wal-Mart Innovation Network.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended the installation of such technologies in all new passenger vehicles. delaying shipments and raising transportation costs. delaying shipments and raising transportation costs. These devices will also be required in all cars sold in the European Union beginning this July.

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7 Innovative Warehouse Management Technologies to Adopt

GlobalTranz

The technology is ideal for retail warehouses that deal with apparel, sporting goods, personal care items, convenience foods, groceries and general merchandise. Innovative technology to consider is the use of a learning management system to train warehouse operators regularly. Lower cost operation. Higher order accuracy.

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

Instead of pushing innovation forward, I see companies using the term “digital” as a path for IT spending. There are many forms of decision support—price optimization, revenue management, transportation planning, spend management, network design. For apparel, it was the transition to cheaper labor in the Asian market. (In

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The $30 Billion Secret: How Amazon’s Logistics Saves You Time & Money

SCMDOJO

The inner workings of logistics at Amazon are a marvel of efficiency, precision, and constant innovation. Services by Amazon Here are some of the key services offered by Amazon: General public: Amazon.com – an e-commerce platform offering a diverse selection of products such as books, electronics, apparel, and groceries.

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Welcome to A Day at ProMat 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

A worker stages the robot in front of container doors, and it autonomously moves forward into the container under its own power and direction as it picks boxes, up to 60 lbs from the face and more weight if picked from the top, and places them onto attached conveyor that transports the loads out of the container.

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Amazon supply chain management pushes retail to the limit

Kinaxis

Amazon supply chain management is driving innovation and change at a pace that’s putting the pressure on other businesses to find a way to keep up, or fold. Failure to innovate in the retail supply chain arena is already having negative financial repercussions for brick and mortar stores, especially when it comes to apparel.