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Why Freight Tech Fails with Mike Wolf

The Logistics of Logistics

His experience is deep in transportation and the CPG / Beverage Industry with particular expertise in leveraging change management skills to ensure changes are adopted and maximize the intended value, including implementing new systems, modes, suppliers or shipping points and carriers. About JBF Consulting.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

I don’t think so; yet, there is an IBM sponsored whitepaper from the University of Tennessee sharing insights from Mondelez leadership in supply chain management. The AMR Research Top 25 was a rocket ship taking off the launch pad. Is this leadership? There is a lot of talk, but little good work to sink your teeth into.

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Is the Food Supply Chain Breaking?

Enterra Insights

Food Dive reports, “While food and beverage manufacturers scramble to keep up with demand as consumers stock their pantries, many now must also contend with coronavirus outbreaks in their factories. 4] Staff, “ Tracking coronavirus closures at food and beverage factories ,” Food Dive , 27 April 2020. [5] They are: 1.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 14-18, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Moving on to 3PL news, FedEx was indicted by the Justice Department for shipping packages from illegal online pharmacies despite being warned from U.S. drug enforcement officials. First, the ongoing push by 3PLs to develop and expand industry-specific solutions.

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Made in America Gifts For the Holidays

Material Handling & Logistics

Goods made in China or India have to be shipped all the way across the ocean to reach American stores, burning fossil fuel and spewing out greenhouse gases with every mile they travel. 7, his signature charcoal-mellowed Tennessee Whiskey. According to a 2015 report from the Economic Policy Institute, the U.S. lost a total of 5.7

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26 warehouse pros reveal the most important factors to consider when moving to an automated warehouse

6 River Systems

Rupy Sawhney is the Heath Fellow in Business and Engineering at the University of Tennessee, combining both fields through his knowledge of lean manufacturing, the optimization of production without a drop off in quality or worker health. Rupy Sawhney. “The types of workplaces that use…” The lights-out method (a.k.a.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

The new facility will allow the company to offer two-day shipping to most (about 90%) of the U.S. When customers order items not stocked at one of Belk’s fulfillment centers, those items are shipped directly from the vendor. PST will ship the same day. In early 2013, Belk launched a vendor-direct program.