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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. Provides return data and insights: They offer visibility into returns data, allowing businesses to identify fraud, quality issues, and other trends. The company has secured $4.5

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November U.S. Logistics Manager’s Index- Noteworthy Trending

Supply Chain Matters

Logistics Managers Index (LMI) that declined to contractionary level and reflecting rather noteworthy trending. That trending, along with the latest U.S. Logistics Manager’s Index- Noteworthy Trending first appeared on The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group / Supply Chain Management. All rights reserved.

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Two Indices of Supply Chain Activity Noting Supply Chain Volatility Trending

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog continues to highlight for readers specific global and regional supply chain indices that depict both trending production activity levels, as well as supply chain volatility. Please note that the authors indicated that with the April report, prior historic data was revised because of various normalization needs.

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Marijuana Supply Chain: Profits and Headaches

Logistics Viewpoints

These states include Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Washington D.C. But climate change and droughts can certainly hinder production.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 24-28, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Uber’s Otto hauls Budweiser across Colorado in self-driving truck (Reuters). Otto and Anheuser-Busch enlisted the support of the state of Colorado before the drive, and the state patrol monitored it, although Colorado and most other U.S. I am forever grateful.

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U.S. Freight Rates Reach Six Year Low Milestone

Supply Chain Matters

A chart depicting Aggregate Logistics Costs Over the Last 3 Years does provide good news for shippers and importers in the depiction of a trend indicating that since May 2022, aggregate logistics costs have plummeted to near April 2020 levels. freight rates have reached their lowest levels in nearly six years.

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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. COVID accelerated a long-term trend toward consumers buying more goods online. Finally, a trend toward wearing more casual clothing has been accelerated by the epidemic. BOMs are critical for sourcing and manufacturing.