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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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What Is Order Fulfillment and It’s Process and Strategies

Locus

million square feet at McCordsville, twenty miles northeast of Indianapolis. A manufacturer partnering with Amazon or FedEx to fulfill the customers’ online orders is an instance of using a third-party fulfillment strategy. Only the manufacturer produces, stores, and ships the product. What’s that? Why is it important?

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The Supply Chain Can?t Stop: A story from the front lines at Ken?s Foods

Elementum

When their salads and dressings became more famous than their steaks, they transitioned into a food manufacturer that has grown to a $1B+ business. The first signs of disruptions came from their Retail Grocery business unit that delivers to the distribution centers of grocery stores and chains. That changed quickly however, as U.S.

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Stord Partners with IPG to Launch New Warehouse Collaboration After Centralizing eCommerce Operations with a Single Integration to Connect Their ERP to Stord’s Omni-Channel Distribution Network

Stord

The integration offers further visibility into IPG’s existing Third Party Logistics Warehouses (“3PLs”) as well as the ability to leverage Stord’s distribution network to seamlessly launch numerous additional warehouses through 2020. Then the IPG team was introduced to Stord, who set up a forward stocking location for IPG in Indianapolis.

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Guest Post from Tim Barnes: Navigating Trump’s 35% import tax, and how US companies can utilize “Parallel Manufacturing” to grow globally

NC State SCRC

I also want to provide an overview of my model of “parallel manufacturing”, that can be utilized by US companies to take advantage of both the low cost of global manufacturing, and the threat of import tariffs. Firstly, I want to lay down some assumptions given Trump has not provided all the details in his plan.