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This Week in Logistics News (September 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. The offering was unveiled this week at Amazon Accelerate, a conference that drew about 2,000 online merchants to Seattle. The post This Week in Logistics News (September 9 – 15) appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints. That’s all for this week.

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Supply Chain Disruption

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Dockworkers have throttled cargo operations from Southern California to Seattle in a series of walkouts and slowdowns, the WSJ Logistics Report’s Paul Berger writes, in a blunt sign of deep divisions between the union and port employers after more than a year of contract negotiations. West Coast ports.

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Logistics Market Stays Flat as May Begins

Zipline Logistics

Currently, we are seeing little fluctuation in the domestic logistics market when compared to the past few weeks. . This has especially been the case for Pacific N orth P lains and in outbound California refrigerated freight. . But the Logistics Manager’s Index skyrocketed from the end of Feb ruary through April.

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Enabling Supply Chain Flexibility: Two Important (But Often Overlooked) Factors

Talking Logistics

The El Niño weather pattern, which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts will be among the strongest on record , is already causing flooding and mudslides in California. Robinson , and I addressed in a recent episode of Talking Logistics.

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Consumers Demand Supply Chain Accountability Down to the Last Straw

Material Handling & Logistics

The California Transparency Supply Chains Act, for instance, which was enacted in 2012, requires companies to disclose information regarding their efforts to eradicate human trafficking and slavery within their supply chains. There were plastic straw bans in individual municipalities in Florida, New Jersey and California.

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SupplyPike Pledges to Bring 180 Jobs to Northwest Arkansas

SupplyPike

There are the typical contenders like California, New York, and Seattle. At SupplyPike, we’re building some incredibly innovative ways to solve problems in logistics and Supply Chain Management (SCM). But we chose Fayetteville, Arkansas. Why Arkansas? How will SupplyPike fill jobs?

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Outbound Tender Rejections Increase for the First Time Since March Peak

Zipline Logistics

Regional Logistics Market Updates. Here is what each region is seeing currently: Northeast Logistics. Covering loads has been easy in the Northeast, except outbound South Texas, Southern California, and Florida as capacity out of these regions is tighter with produce heating up. Midwest Logistics. Southeast Logistics.