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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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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. By looking more broadly than just how can we reduce the transportation or warehousing costs, they will find the big savings, the billion dollar savings.

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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.

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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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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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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. Tesla actually purchased their own ventilators and donated them to hospitals with greater demand.