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This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

With the new partnership, retailers will fulfill orders from inventory in their stores, and a Flex delivery driver will pick them up from the retailer. These vehicles account for a large share of transportation-related emissions, but have not received as much regulatory attention as passenger cars.

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What is Supply Chain Compliance and Why is it Important?

AB&R

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Podcast: VC Brian Aoaeh on the Future of Supply Chain Investment

Requis

It was done by an academic whose life has been devoted to solving these sorts of problems, and he’s done it for transportation, he’s done it for the navy, he’s done it in spare parts, and almost every industry you can think of. Brian studied mathematics and physics for his first degree from Connecticut College. Data and analytics.

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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

The company was replenishing dealers’ inventory weekly, using direct shipment and cross-docking operations from source warehouses located near Deere & Company’s manufacturing facilities. The only option was to try to reduce levels of inventory, which, up to that point, had been kept very high to support a nine-week order cycle.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

The company has operations in more than 40 countries and specializes in integrating different modes of transport in logistics solutions. XPO Logistics XPO Logistics is a transportation and contract logistics management company with more than 1,530 locations in more than 30 countries around the world. Nippon Express owns more than 31.7