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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Boston Marathon is considered one of the worlds “ Big 5 ” marathons. mile journey, with a particularly large crowd in downtown Boston. The 127th running of the Boston Marathon took place on Monday. billion for Bollore logistics unit Retailers Tackle Cardboard Overload With Made-to-Fit Boxes Robust.AI

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Report from Food Marketing Institute Highlights CPG Logistics Challenges

Zipline Logistics

The past 12 months have been a year unlike any other for suppliers and providers in the CPG logistics world. A new report from the Food Marketing Institute and Boston Consulting Group highlights the effects increased demand had on organizations in the CPG marketplace. COVID’s Effects on CPG Logistics . cost per case.

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7 Ways to Strategically Elevate Freight Procurement

Talking Logistics

Transportation has followed the same evolutionary pattern, moving upstream from day-to-day freight transactions to an integral component of top-level corporate planning and procurement strategy. As a strategic process, transportation procurement may still seem very tedious and challenging. Be demand driven. Hire smart data analysts.

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Insights from Elemica reveal 2014 Frankfurt

Talking Logistics

What do the Germany World Cup Team and the Boston Red Sox have in common? Herman Woltjes, Shell Chemicals – “Logistics Execution”. But at the same time, supply chains are challenged by complex logistics, systems issues, legal requirements, and lack of resources.” As I wrote earlier this year in Is Your Business Model Safe? ,

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Team re-building, split of responsibilities/tasks, border closure challenges, quick navigation of stock management, prioritisation of logistics to consumer needs and coordination with partners upstream and downstream. Boston: Springer), pp.413–422. In supply chain, leadership is critical in broad and diverse areas of actions.

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Top Digital Supply Chain Cities in the U.S.

Material Handling & Logistics

Given that the study was funded by an Atlanta-based group, the results are hardly authoritative (for instance, a number of major cities, such as Boston, Charlotte, Denver, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, are not included in the study), but they do offer an interesting view on the supply chain capabilities of seven major regions.

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 11.5-11.9

Freight Plus

“Instead of having conversations about what the detention rates are going to be, I’d rather focus on not having detention at all,” Rob Roberson, director of logistics at steelmaker Nucor, said at the JOC Inland Distribution Conference. We’ve used our transportation management system to make load times a critical metric for us.”.