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This Week in Logistics News (January 22 – 28)

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Ortiz was a larger-than-life figure in the Boston sports scene for 14 years, with more memorable moments than anyone other baseball player I can think of. And of course, there was his famous speech following the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, where he declared “this is our f—— city and nobody is going to dictate our freedom.”

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This Week in Logistics News (January 28 – February 3)

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As a Boston fan, Tom Brady forever changed my sports landscape. The Boston sports landscape shifted after that first Super Bowl and became the city of champions, with 12 total championships (6 by the Patriots, 4 by the Red Sox, and 1 each by the Celtics and Bruins). This time, however, he says it is for good.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

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This is leading to an inventory pile-up of processors and memory chips used in PCs. Some retailers are learning to love bulked-up inventories. The companies building their inventories are looking to ensure they have items on hand at the right moment. Walgreens takes its delivery service round the clock.

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29 warehouse & automation experts share insights on how warehouse robots will impact industry employment

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It also allows existing employees to spend less time lugging boxes or finding inventory and more time doing the more complex parts of their job that are difficult to automate. Those inventory systems require more attention because of this (a human gig), as do programming and maintenance.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 30 – November 5)

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Biden announces partnership with California on port upgrades. To prevent shipping logjams that have recently stymied the country’s supply chain, the Biden administration and California officials said Thursday that billions of dollars in infrastructure improvements are being fast-tracked for the state’s largest ports.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 29 – February 4)

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It’s hard to believe that after so many years, a legend of Boston has officially called it quits. The Bosstones were a classic Boston band that somehow even featured a member that simply known as the Dancing Bosstone. Sam’s Club rolling out inventory accessory for cleaning robots. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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28 supply chain professionals share the biggest challenges of supply chain management

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All of the above (and other down-stream KPIs and processes) are heavily influenced by the accuracy of a demand forecast: if the demand forecast is much more accurate, a company is more likely to have the right product, in the right quantities in inventory and will have less of the products in inventory that is not required.