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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper is also home to a leading cancer center (MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper), the only Level II pediatric trauma center in the Delaware Valley (Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper), three urgent care centers, and more than 100 outpatient offices from Southeastern Pennsylvania to the Jersey Shore.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

This includes trucking capacity concerns, port congestion , and warehouse staff. In a blog post, Amazon said a combination of planes, trucks, ships, and delivery vans, along with staffed-up warehouses, has put it in a good position to “get customers what they want, when they want it, wherever they are this holiday season.”

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Barcoding: The Holiday Lifesaver

AB&R

Businesses need to be able to hit the ground running, preparing to help customers quickly on the storefront, while warehouse workers ensure the appropriate inventory quantities are available, and that customers’ purchases are shipped to the correct address on time. Now, nearly all retailers use barcodes in some capacity.

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Accessing Bathrooms

Cathy Roberson

(Source: Reddit ) There’s been a lot of supply chain pains over the years, many of which are well documented – port congestion, capacity issues, rising spot rates, plunging spot rates, hidden fees, maxed out warehouses – just to name a few but one that I’m still trying to wrap my head around is access to bathrooms.

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

Natural gas and oil expenses contribute to extreme cost disparities in shipping from Asia to the U.S., for example, compared to shipping state-to-state. Errors in interpretation of product specifications, shipping documents, and other critical instructions, due to language barriers are reduced. Premium freight capacity improves.

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Shopify Launches Fulfillment Network for SMB Merchants

Multichannel Merchant

Through its partners, Shopify has access to fulfillment centers in California, Georgia, New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. The network will support SMB merchants shipping between 10 and 10,000 packages per day, eventually expanding its capacity up to 30,000 packages per day.

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Top 10 Cities for eCommerce Fulfillment

FLEXE

You can pop-up capacity when and where you need it. The additional capacity and fulfillment services are helping them compete with Amazon’s delivery speed and improve customer satisfaction. Allentown, Pennsylvania. On-demand fulfillment is a way for retailers to add fulfillment centers quickly. Atlanta, Georgia. Want a visual?