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Three Ways Center-of-Gravity Studies Lead You Astray

Logility

Where is the best place to put a distribution center? And that is answer (d) — put the warehouse at Customer A’s location and then ship 300 miles to customer B. This answer minimizes the net unit miles shipped. Even sophisticated design tools sometimes rely on a circuity factor to serve as a proxy for road distance.

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UltraShipTMS Inbound Logistics Solution Selected by The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc.

Supply Chain Collaborator

The Milwaukee, WI and York, PA based retailer operates 268 department stores across 26 states and has a robust online/ecommerce site. Bon-Ton’s implementation will include the UltraShipTMS Core platform as well as Ultra’s LoadFusion freight/route optimization tool and yard management tool, UltraYMS. a regional department store.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 10 – 16)

Logistics Viewpoints

With the Milwaukee Bucks opening round loss, the Celtics would have home court advantage throughout the playoffs, with a strong chance to bring home championship number 18. This is also about supply chains, about 150,000 vehicles a day, and a good percentage of that is trucking. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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The New Way a TMS Fuels Routing Creativity

Talking Logistics

In today’s business environment, no planner is simply loading freight onto a truck and shipping it from Point A to Point B via a common carrier. The key tool for a logistics planner has long been a transportation management system (TMS), but the increased complexity of the market is driving demand for more creative TMS capabilities.