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Exel announces new business with Bristol-Myers Squibb and expansion of Midwest Footprint

Supply Chain Network

distribution. As part of the contract, Exel purchased the existing Bristol-Myers Squibb distribution centers in Mount Vernon, Ind., Exel will provide logistics operations and finished goods distribution services including storage and distribution of cold and non-cold chain products, clinical trials, samples and exports.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 3-7, 2016)

Talking Logistics

The distribution network comprises about 20 logistics centers through which MIT provides highly specialized pre- and post-delivery equipment services…MIT is also market leader in the highly specialized distribution of life-saving products such as radiopharmaceuticals.

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What Is Order Fulfillment and It’s Process and Strategies

Locus

million square feet at McCordsville, twenty miles northeast of Indianapolis. Using stores as distribution nodes This is the latest advancement in order fulfillment. Earlier, businesses found it efficient to centralize their shipping from mega distribution centers to fulfill e-commerce orders. What’s that? Why is it important?

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Demand and Fulfillment Blocking & Tackling: Part 5 – Knowledge Is Power

BlueYonder

Strong and agile supply chains have built state-of-the-art fulfillment processes, distribution centers and shipping capabilities to serve demand. A good example of that would be two games played by the New England Patriots against the Indianapolis Colts during the last season. Sound simple? It is, if you do it right.

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Walmart Rolling Out Four High-Tech FCs

Multichannel Merchant

Successive FCs will open next spring in McCordsville, IN, near Indianapolis; in Lancaster, TX near Dallas in the fall of 2023; and in Greencastle, PA, about 100 miles northwest of Baltimore and Washington, DC sometime in 2024. in a blog post. Alone, they could get the job done for 75% of the population.

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Flatbed ratio reverses 10-week decline

DAT Solutions

Roanoke is also home to warehouses and distribution centers that take advantage of access to rail service and a 2- or 3-hour driving distance to sea ports. Rock Island, IL to Indianapolis fell 55¢ to $3.30/mile, NOT SO HOT. Some flatbed sectors, however, are slowing seasonally: Raleigh to Miami lost 60¢ to $2.91/mile,

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Southern States are Red-Hot for Vans

DAT Solutions

Likewise, Memphis to Indianapolis rates moved up 17¢, to $2.32. Buffalo to Allentown lost 11¢ to $2.63, due partly to a surge in outbound freight from distribution centers in Allentown. Trucks got a 30¢ raise on the lane from Atlanta to Columbus , to $2.20 Atlanta to Philadelphia got a 22¢ boost , to $2.78