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North American Building Materials Leader Cornerstone Building Brands Chooses ToolsGroup and River Logic’s Technology

ToolsGroup

The visualization and scenario planning of the physical and financial value chain overlaid with a digital representation of the actual flow of goods enables us to utilize longer-term strategic supply chain design variations and optimize inventory and service levels.” “Our

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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

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Wing and Zipline are drone delivery providers and will allow Walmart to cover 75 percent of the Dallas-Fort Worth population as stores in 30 towns and municipalities will now offer drone delivery service. Wing already handles drone deliveries at Walmart Supercenters in Frisco, Texas, and the Dallas area.

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o9 Solutions Expands Its Strategic Partnership with Marelli to Implement an Automated Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) Process Globally

o9 Solutions

The platform allows Marelli to anticipate future supply chain risks, improve inventory management and reduce reactive supply chain costs. The recent years have further proven the need for digitalization of the supply chain management strategy,” said Carlo Chiarle, VP, Global Head of Manufacturing Operations & SIOP of Marelli.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 27 – February 2)

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UPS is seeking alternative strategies for its truck brokerage business, which has seen sales plummet amid a freight recession marked by declining rates and over capacity. The Dallas Forth Worth-headquartered airline registered a 6.7 Soft demand in Europe and the US led to an overall decline of 7.5 percent, at American there was a 24.2%

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Retail Returns: The Key to Driving Business Growth

ToolsGroup

Returns come with plenty of challenges around logistics, inventory, and predicting volatile sales trends. As a retailer, you must plan a customer-centric returns strategy in order to build client trust and prevent negative reviews on social media, websites, and other channels where customers interact. There’s an added benefit as well.

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ToolsGroup to Take the Stage with Lennox at American Supply Chain Summit

ToolsGroup

BOSTON (April 17, 2019) – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, today shared it will exhibit and present at the American Supply Chain Summit 2019 , taking place April 25-26 in Dallas. Our customers consistently see service levels increase while inventory, cost, and waste go down.”. On April 25 at 11:50 a.m.,

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

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Target’s inventories at the end of the last quarter were 16 percent lower than the same period a year ago and Walmart cut inventories in its U.S. Inventories at U.S. Target has been testing high-capacity van routes at Dallas and Minneapolis sortation centers. And now on to this week’s logistics news.