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This Week in Logistics News (April 13 – 19)

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Some of the robots zip around the hulking facility transporting pallets of merchandise fresh off delivery trucks. But Amazon is on track to purchase by next year as much electricity produced by solar, wind and other carbon-free sources as it uses to power its operations. A third group are labelers.

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When The Wheels Fall Off

Supply Chain Shaman

For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. When the repair estimate was 5X the cost of the car, I wrote the dealer a check and drove off in a 2019 Lincoln Nautilus with 4,200 miles. Transportation Reliability. The global supply chain assumes wide availability of transportation.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. In a similar vein, a major 3PL that I spoke to last week at Eye for Transport is considering discontinuing the traditional storage of spare parts and initiating a new service to do 3D printing of parts on demand. These tools allow us to look at sell, source, make, and deliver together.

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Maryland Department of General Services Announces eMaryland Marketplace Advantage Goes Live

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BALTIMORE, MD – The Maryland Department of General Services today announced the Office of State Procurement launched the state’s new e-procurement system eMaryland Marketplace Advantage (eMMA). eMMA will allow buyers to collaborate with vendors from the bidding and contracting process all the way through the purchasing process.

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