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Editor’s Choice: What Supply Chains Must Overcome to Deliver on the Consumer Promise

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Recently, I was at my local grocery store for my weekly shopping trip and found myself in the packaged salads section. While this is easy for packaged/processed items with Best by Dates, it is not as easy for bulk, loose, or field packaged products. Am I alone in this habit or thinking? or squeezing an Avocado.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 21 – 27)

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Once a customer places an order, the item is fulfilled from the store, packaged, loaded into the drone and delivered right to their yard using a cable that gently lowers the package. Amazon is looking to sublet at least 10 million square feet of space and could vacate even more by ending leases with landlords.

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Peet’s Coffee and the Roasted Bean Supply Chain

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Founded in Berkeley, California in 1966, Peet’s Coffee touts itself as the original craft coffee. The company has a sourcing team that vets the beans. All their coffee is produced in small batches and roasted at their own LEED Gold certified roasting plant in Almeda California.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 30 – May 6)

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UPS plans to implement its smart package initiative at 100 facilities in 2022, which will involve using RFID tags on packages to speed up throughput. The initiative will eliminate 20 million manual scans daily for UPS employees loading its package cars. Empty shipping containers stack up at US port depots.

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5 Reasons Ecommerce Companies Fail with Paige Fitzgerald

The Logistics of Logistics

Paige currently resides in San Diego, California, where you might find her reading at the beach or birdwatching at the bay in her free time. Prior to working at Fulfyld, Paige held various roles in events, marketing, and sales in Chicago, Illinois. About Fulfyld.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 6 – 12)

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per package during the first surcharge cycle. per package, will begin October 3 and run until Jan. Additional handling charges are imposed when a package does not conform to FedEx’s processing profile and must be handled differently than others. The first cycle of surcharges ends October 2. FedEx will charge $3.45

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What Kind of Reset Does the Supply Chain Need? Part Two

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Moore , the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, and Max H. Sourcing decisions will be based more upon resilience, rather than merely minimizing costs. They write, “Think in expected values. 2] 1 Corinthians 13:12 [3] Don A.