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This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

Micro-Warehouse Provider Pivots as Retail Consumer Market Shifts. In 2017, Flytrex successfully launched the world’s first fully autonomous urban drone delivery system in Reykjavik, Iceland, and we covered that initiative in these pages on June 15, 2018. the Nike article reminded me of it). Philly Cheesesteak Delivered by Drone?

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Supply Chain Resilience Core Capacities

MIT Supply Chain

For example, the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption in Iceland caused a primary loss of freight transportation capacity, but that loss also robbed many companies of supply capacity. For example, replacing lost ocean transportation capacity can be time-consuming owing to the dynamics of the ocean market. Source: James B.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Later in this article we’ll look at some examples of functional and cross functional KPIs. Warehousing. Transportation. At the beginning of this article, I stressed the importance of not having too many KPIs. Broadly speaking though, the following areas are those where KPIs will be necessary: Order capture.

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