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This Week in Logistics News (February 25 – March 4)

Logistics Viewpoints

A central part of Amazon’s ultrafast delivery strategy is its network of warehouses that the company calls same-day sites. The facilities are a fraction of the size of Amazon’s large fulfillment warehouses and are designed to prepare products for immediate delivery. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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The Journey to End-to-End (E2E) Supply Chain Visibility Is Ongoing

Logistics Viewpoints

It means being able to see where a shipment or an order is while it’s in transit — whether on a truck, a railcar, an ocean liner or a cargo plane — anywhere in the world. Ensuring that systems can meet the goals of local and HQ teams equally well. In layman’s terms, it’s fundamentally about seeing everything, everywhere.

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The $30 Billion Secret: How Amazon’s Logistics Saves You Time & Money

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This system uses giant warehouses, lots of trucks, and even cool robots to move things quickly. We’ll look at their warehouses, their delivery tricks, and even how they use new technology to make things faster. billion (net profit) Profit by Region/Country: North America is a major market, followed by Europe and Asia.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

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Industry professionals have put in tireless hours and taken strategic measures to keep the supply chain moving and meet customer demand. This means carriers have not been able to fully utilize their capacity and meet the demand for container shipping, which is why freight rates are reaching record highs. Image source: Bloomberg.

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Why Now is the Time to Choose LCL Shipping

CH Robinson Transportfolio

By using shipments in transit as “inventory in transit,” LCL shipping can even help lower warehousing and inventory costs, which in turn can help reduce your tariff spend per shipment. Expedited LCL shipping combined with tailored solutions offers the necessary flexibility you need to meet transit times. Dependable transit times.

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Supply Chain Transformation: Not Just Digital, But Physical Too

Talking Logistics

What’s becoming clear, however, is that digital supply chain transformation is not enough; companies also have to transform their physical supply chain networks to adequately meet the more demanding challenges and opportunities before them. The approach, now in pilot mode at a warehouse in Perth Amboy, N.J.,

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- May 12 2023

Supply Chain Matters

The combined company is to be headquartered in North America and be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal , “ Mr. Graves said bringing together Alkem and Livent would create a company with greater scale, a larger product range and wider geographic footprint to meet the growth in lithium demand.”