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This Week in Logistics News (January 27 – February 2)

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UPS is seeking alternative strategies for its truck brokerage business, which has seen sales plummet amid a freight recession marked by declining rates and over capacity. A factory in Suzhou was the company’s main manufacturing site for its semiconductor test equipment, which it subcontracted to Flextronics.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

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Target is increasing its use of larger delivery vehicles in markets served by its sortation centers, improving capacity and creating more efficient routes, executive vice president and COO John Mulligan said on an earnings call last week. Target has been testing high-capacity van routes at Dallas and Minneapolis sortation centers.

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

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Well, according to Czinger, a Los Angeles-based boutique hypercar manufacturer, that is about to be a possibility. Empty shipping containers are piling up in storage depots on the US east and west coasts, causing a glut of capacity even as they are sorely needed overseas in Asia to ship exports back to the US. That’s all for this week.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 24 – 30)

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Previously, some Prime members could get Amazon Fresh orders and Whole Foods deliveries dropped off in their garage, but only if they lived in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Seattle. Apple’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund is financing the project. And these retailers could certainly use some help.

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Turvo Partners with Banyan Technology to Drive Cost Savings by Optimizing Transportation Management

Turvo

The volatility the market witnesses today has led supply chain stakeholders like shippers, carriers, and manufacturers to obsessively look at driving efficiencies into their workflow, while cutting costs. Turvo is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Dallas, Texas, and Hyderabad, India. About Banyan Technology.

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o9 Solutions Platform Enables Vestas to advance its Global Supply Chain Management

o9 Solutions

DALLAS, 04 November 2021 – o9 Solutions , a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced its collaboration with Vestas , a world leader in wind technology, to develop its global supply chain planning capabilities by leveraging the o9 Digital Brain platform. . About Vestas.

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

As I flew to Dallas, I worked on this post. As companies outsourced—greater dependency on third parties for manufacturing and transportation—and asset utilization grew from 10% to 35% ROIC the management of the supply chain became more complex. As a result, they are unknowingly trying to pursue an infeasible plan.