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This Week in Logistics News (October 14-18, 2013)

Talking Logistics

In other news… Descartes Launches Updated Advanced Home Delivery Solution. HighJump Software, TrueCommerce EDI Solutions Group Announces Strategic Partnership with Unisun Software. Wal-Mart seeks to tether small stores to big ones ( The Detroit News ). As a result, the answers to “What is a warehouse?”

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Considerations for Selecting the Right Fulfillment Partner

3PL Insights

After an online purchase is made, customers want to receive their product as soon as possible. Most of the time, this is done automatically through an integration between a cart system (such as Shopify or WooCommerce) and a warehouse management system (WMS). Here are considerations for selecting the right fulfillment partner.

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Overcoming Automotive Logistics Challenges – Part II

BlueYonder

Before, they might say to purchasing, “You guys have done a brilliant job; you’ve reduced your costs by a million dollars because you’re buying everything from India. Is it because some of the biggest parts are being shipped from another manufacturing location? Governments themselves are trying to come up with solutions.

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U.S. Companies Shift Production to COVID-19 Supplies

3PL Insights

The COVID-19 pandemic continues, and with every passing day, we hear about more individuals, communities and businesses finding new innovative solutions to help combat the ongoing crisis. Across the globe, companies are shifting from their normal production to manufacturing products that directly help fight against the novel Coronavirus.

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Supply Chain Management in a VUCA World

Enterra Insights

Yet all of the functions that we now associate with Supply Chain have been around for a very long time: Planning, Inventory Management, Logistics, Procurement and Purchasing, Warehousing and many more.”[2] ” Coining a term and defining the term are two different things. supply chain member organizations).”[3].

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The FarEye Story With Kushal Nahata

The Logistics of Logistics

You start having all the data, bringing AI and some other tools against it. I’m in Detroit about 4 and a half to 5 hours away, depending on the traffic. My cofounder and I spent a lot of time in their warehouse and hub, went out for deliveries with a driver, and understood exactly day-to-day operations.