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The Ecommerce Fulfillment Blind Spot with Kyle Bertin

The Logistics of Logistics

Like e-commerce and returns, Two Boxes employees are everywhere, with core teams in California and Colorado. Enhances customer service: Two Boxes’ system helps identify high-priority returns, potentially leading to improved customer service experiences. The company has secured $4.5

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Colorado River Water Rationed for First Time Amid Drought

Supply Chain Brain

Federal officials ordered the first-ever water cuts on the Colorado River system that sustains 40 million people.

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Consumer Packaged Goods Network Optimization: The Key to Supply Chain Resiliency 

Logility

Yet, many supply chain leaders are caught between the need to pivot operations within shorter timeframes and decades-old modeling systems. Suppose a CPG brand decides to shift its manufacturing capacity from Rhode Island to a higher-cost, yet more-sustainable, alternative in Colorado. Get Access!

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Winter Alert: Winter Weather Conditions Developing Across Much of the US

GlobalTranz

The heaviest snowfall in this region will occur in the Cascades, Tetons, and Colorado Rockies. Starting Saturday, a Pacific storm system will cause heavy snowfall from Portland to Seattle. This storm system will cause hazardous travel conditions in the region. These weather events are rapidly evolving.

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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

Water levels falling in the Rhine, the Loire, and the Colorado River. A reactive supply chain introduces nervousness into a complex non-linear system. In nine out of ten supply chain planning systems that I test, I find that companies have a negative Forecast Value Added level. Thirty-one months of supply chain disruption.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

VF Corporation (VFC) is a global apparel, footwear and accessories company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The conveyor system is a marvel with 20 diverts to ensure the right goods flow to the right station. TGW is their material handling supplier and Manhattan Associates is the warehouse management system supplier.

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Your supply chain is costing you money – Reason #10 Failure to adequately train your supply chain planning staff

Kinaxis

They do their jobs moving inventory from here to there, opening orders that the system says should be opened, cancelling orders that the system says should be cancelled, yet never questioning why or whether it makes sense. Why is this a problem? Le t’s look at a quick example. The computer told you to, right?