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Most Popular Logistics Stories from 2021

Logistics Viewpoints

So, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on the top 15 most popular logistics stories from 2021 and see what our readers found to be the most interesting. It was good mix of topics and authors, including a good number from our Logistics Viewpoints sponsors. So let’s take a look now at the 15 most popular logistics stories.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 9 – 15)

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And now on to this week’s logistics news. UPS wants to ship packages in the metaverse. The filings are for goods and services including “non-fungible tokens” (NFTs); “virtual goods, namely, packages, parcels, [and] shipping labels;” and “virtual retail shipping.”

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What Shippers and Retailers Need to Know for Peak Season Planning 2022

The Logistics of Logistics

When asked what peak season is, it’s easy to assume the holidays are the only peak shipping season. However, four shipping seasons occur throughout the year and are often regular and expected. That was the case until the ongoing disruptions of the past few years changed the shipping game. Q2: The Produce Shipping Season.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

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VF Corporation is Building a Highly Automated DC on the West Coast. The supply plan will include the procurement plan for their raw material supplies (Tier 2) needed for their finished goods suppliers (Tier 1). The old product development process involved shipping prototypes back and forth. A Digital Supply Chain Transformation.

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Molex Prizes Agility

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Mr. Eberle is the vice president of logistics and distribution operations at Molex. Mr. van den Eijnden is the director of global logistics operations planning and systems at Molex. Yes, SAP had inbound ASN’s (advanced ship notices). The planners could choose to switch cargo from a slow-moving ship to air, for example.

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What Lessons a Table Fable Teaches About Supply Chain Orchestration

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The distribution center (DC) hadn’t released the order, but customer service didn’t have access to the right systems to see exactly what was wrong. Customer service couldn’t call the DC, only email them, and her emails weren’t getting responses. Only persistent calls got my order back on track. that made OTIF fail repeatedly at scale.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

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This DC supplies that hospital and Cooper’s other facilities. The health care system’s primary distributors deliver supplies every morning to this DC. For example, when a UPS strike was looming last year, the Interos solution automatically highlighted Cooper’s strategic suppliers that relied on UPS for shipping.