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Warehousing News Roundup: April 1, 2019

Stord

Nike improved its supply chain efficiency by adopting digital tools to increase visibility and reduce production lead times. This Express Lane initiative – the company’s name for new tools and solutions – has placed materials closer to factories, reduced manufacturing delays, and predicted customer demand more accurately.

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Why a Community?

Supply Chain Insights

I have envisioned a community where supply chain professionals could network freely and globally. It is about an Iowa corn farmer, that after hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his backyard. It is designed for all supply chain leaders around the world. My Field of Dreams.

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Driverless Trucks, China, COVID and the Future of the Supply Chain

Turvo

Interestingly, we all had significant experience in the freight, logistics, sourcing, and supply chain world. Are we close to an automated world or decades away? How would sourcing and transportation patterns change if manufacturing shifted away from China? Yet the supply chain is at the very heart of our existence.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

For those unfamiliar with the metaverse, it is the emerging 3-D-enabled digital space that uses virtual reality, augmented reality, and other advanced internet and semiconductor technology to allow people to have lifelike personal and business experiences online. This will certainly be an interesting trend to watch.

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One Man’s Trash: How Blockchain Can Target Food Waste to Help End World Hunger

Material Handling & Logistics

Much of the food waste produced around the world can be traced back to inconsistencies in the supply chain: inventories aren’t recorded, suppliers aren’t informed, and quality isn’t taken into account. Blockchain offers a decentralized and immutable ledger that can be accessed by any party operating in a given supply chain.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

And while it is not possible to measure the impact of everything on your receipt, if the receipt doesn’t contain enough data on a product, Eaternity gives an estimate based on similar products and reference points such as national import and export statistics, which determine where a product is likely to have come from.