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This Week in Logistics News (January 1-5, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Amazon shipped over 5 billion items with Prime in 2017 (TechCrunch). Peloton holds 1,000-mile platooning demo in Florida (CCJ). By the end of last week, just one truck was available for every 12 loads needing to be shipped, according to online freight marketplace DAT Solutions LLC,” reported the Wall Street Journal this week.

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In Focus: 2023 SCM Strategies for Industry Leaders

Locus

Locus attended the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium that took place in Orlando, Florida in May. Shippers must offer customers a range of shipping options, low shipping costs, easy returns and cancellations, straightforward tracking, and time-sensitive deliveries. Shippers must captivate their customers in various ways.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Shipping Networks (WSJ – sub. UPS To Launch eBike In Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Shipping firm Clarksons braces for data leak after refusing to pay hacker (The Guardian). I haven’t seen a full demo of it yet, but BluJay provided a preview of some of the features announced this week at its user conference back in April.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 8-12, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Hurricane season is upon us, and the latest one, Hurricane Michael, has caused serious damage and disruption in the Florida Panhandle region and beyond. And this week ShippingEasy announced its integration “with Amazon Alexa to ship with your voice!” Hurricane Michael: How Can Logistics Professionals Help?

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How Will Climate Change Impact Supply Chains in 2024?

Resilinc

This drought impacted hydropower, disrupted shipping, and affected five million people in southern China, according to the World Meteorological Organization. For example, in 2022, Hurricane Ian damaged more than $416 million in citrus crops in Florida —half of all citrus consumers by Americans. appeared first on Resilinc.

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The Evolution of Barcode Systems: From Morse Code to QR Codes

QAD

While sitting on a beach in Florida, he used Morse code (which he learned during his Boy Scout days) to create the barcode when he “extended the dots and dashes downward and made narrow lines and wide lines out of them” to solve the grocery store puzzle. Graduate student Woodland took on the challenge.

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Basic ITAR Compliance Awareness

Arena Solutions

You can’t just take the shipping clerk and make him an empowered official and go on. By the way, I saw this, not this particular scene, but I saw a very similar scene like this with an ITAR company here in Florida. GET A DEMO. You have to have somebody that really understands this stuff. All right, consequences of violations.