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How Important is 1% to Your Supply Chain?

BlueYonder

A key part of my job was navigation: identifying my objectives, and plotting an optimal course for my journey. After traveling only one mile, I would be off course by almost 100 feet. If I continued at that same compass setting, about halfway there, I would be off course by about three miles.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

During a normal Olympics, millions of spectators flock to venues to watch over 300 events unfold over the course of two-plus weeks. Amazon said the development center in Helsinki will work alongside Amazon staff at the Amazon Scout R&D lab in Seattle, as well as teams in Tubingen, Germany, and Cambridge.

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Is The Creative Class Coming To A City Near You?

Supply Chain Insights

I made a list and wrote Seattle, San Francisco, and Austin. This is more than just birds of a feather flocking together in a few places on the planet (Silicon Valley, Boston’s Route 128, The Triangle in North Carolina, Austin, Seattle, Bangalore, Dublin and Sweden to name a few) and having an impact. Then I thought, dang!

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8 Examples of Kanban in Lean Manufacturing

Unleashed

Of course, by giving the assembled product to the labelling station, that assembly station now has no goods left in its own stock. Kanban is of course a controller of workflow. The station nearest to the end customer (i.e. labelling) withdraws the materials it needs from their upstream ‘vendor’ (i.e.

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Air Freight Explained: Calculating Costs and Price Trends

Freightos

CO2 emissions – Of course, air freight also leads to far more emissions. A relative newcomer, founded in 1979 in Seattle, Washington, this US forwarder had $2.51 Comparing air and ocean freight , a medium size 2000 lbs box from Shenzhen, China to New York, USA, can cost $1,200 by ocean but a whopping $4,000 by air. Expeditors.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 2-6, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Amazon’s robot army grows by 50 percent (The Seattle Times). Of course, Amazon continues to make the headlines. Amazon is secretly building an ‘Uber for trucking’ app, setting its sights on a massive $800 billion market (Business Insider). Uber Freight Just Launched and Trucking Will Never Be the Same (Inverse).

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The Data Behind Amazon’s Logistics and Fulfillment Play

Freightos

In the US, this sprawling network is defined by a range of different services, from Prime Now hubs near urban centers to fresh food and Whole Food delivery goods, and, of course, fulfillment, sortation and delivery stations. About half of these jobs are in the US, and half of them based out of their Seattle headquarters. Team Analysis.