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10 Books Logistics And Supply Chain Experts Need To Read

Freightos

I threw in a healthy dose of interesting (globalization, shipping trends and the business of logistics), a dash of history (the evolution of longitude), a sprinkle of next generation manufacturing (lean manufacturing) and some great company success stories (FedEx, Walmart. I think you’ll like the list too.

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Procurement Technology: An Update from Spend Matters in Baltimore

NC State SCRC

Today I travelled to Baltimore to attend the ISM/Spend matters Global Procurement Tech Summit. This leverages Amazon fulfillment (90,000 full time employees working in fulfillment centers, including robots and other technology.) Same day shipping is now in 16 metro areas.

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Walmart Rolling Out Four High-Tech FCs

Multichannel Merchant

The company is reportedly patenting a five-step unload/receive/pick/pack/ship process leveraging Knapp technology, which took 12 steps under a manual fulfillment model. Walmart offers free two-day shipping on orders of $35 or more, or unlimited free shipping plus other perks for members of its $98-a-year Walmart+ program.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 28 – October 2, 2015)

Talking Logistics

It will be available soon in New York, Baltimore, Miami, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Indianapolis, Atlanta and Portland. Meanwhile, Cloud Logistics introduced its Same Day TMS program “designed to allow shippers to start shipping – and saving – the day they start the project.” You can work as much or as little as you want.

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 1.28-2.1

Freight Plus

In May, DHL Americas Innovation Center will open in Chicago. Truckers protest Baltimore port delay times. They work the ships hard and heavy because if they don’t turn them in a timely manner, then they get fined, or the ships won’t come here,” Miller told The Baltimore Sun, “But they let us sit in there for hours on end.”