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The Definitive Guide on Produce Season Transportation Impacts

Zipline Logistics

And if most of your production happens in FL, you may choose to divert sourcing to your secondary facility, say in New Jersey, during heavy produce shipping season months to avoid the heightened costs. Check out our definitive guide on which crops affect produce season transportation most in each of the lower 48 states. West Virginia.

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Episode 90 – Digital Supply Networks with Dr. Ednilson Bernardes

Freight Plus

Bernardes is a professor and coordinator of the Global Supply Chain Management program at West Virginia University. Traditionally, supply chains have been conceived and managed as a discrete sequence of activities, from design, plan, and source to make, deliver, and return. Culture is definitely one of them.

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A New Red Wagon?

Supply Chain Shaman

I grew up in the mountains of West Virginia. The confluence of new technologies–additive manufacturing, blockchain, cloud computing, cognitive computing, Internet of Things, open source analytics, robotics, sensors, and wearables– along with process possibilities is driving a new call to action. Amazon bought Whole Foods.

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Episode 90 – Digital Supply Networks with Dr. Ednilson Bernardes

Freight Plus

Bernardes is a professor and coordinator of the Global Supply Chain Management program at West Virginia University. Traditionally, supply chains have been conceived and managed as a discrete sequence of activities, from design, plan, and source to make, deliver, and return. Culture is definitely one of them.

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Supply Chain: The True Game of Risk

Supply Chain Shaman

When I was a small child growing up in the mountains of West Virginia in the United States, on snowy days, my family would gather around the kitchen table and play board games. To ensure clarity, let’s start with a definition. When a disruption happens, there needs to be a clear definition of protocols, and responsibilities.

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Digitized Procurement: Your Setting-off Point to Autonomy

Jaggaer

Sourcing automation. Sourcing Strategy Advisor. To cut through the fog of hype and disinformation, let’s remind ourselves of the definitions we have set out in our past reports. Self-maintained data quality. Intelligent Procurement. Contract compliance automation. Requisition automation. Supply-Chain and Invoice automation.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the next 40 years, the answer is (most likely) a definitive no. The two new prototypes are both based on the Hummingbird, which Wing says can carry about 2 pounds and has made hundreds of thousands of deliveries in Dallas suburbs, Virginia, Australia, and Finland. But are the Jetsons just a few centuries before their time?