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UPS Strike Averted While Workers Gain Heat Protection

Logistics Viewpoints

Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors have documented heat indexes of 126, and temperature readings provided to NBC News taken by workers in their trucks in Arizona and Florida have shown temperatures above 150 degrees.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Click the links below to compare this year's innovations to those from previous years: Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017 : exoskeletons, autonomous forklifts, flying warehouses, last-mile delivery, and more. Warehouse Automation. Content Summary: Honeywell and Carnegie Mellon Partner to Bring AI to the Warehouse.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 7-11, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Hundreds of Cafe Bustelo cans washed ashore in Florida this week. MercuryGate extends invoicing and document management solution with HubTran integration. HighJump Partners with Advantage2Retail to Bring Best-of-Breed Warehousing Software to Retailers. Source: Laurie Cus.

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“1+1=3? Opportunities in Logistics (Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2015 Conference)

Talking Logistics

The theme of this year’s Descartes Evolution 2015 Global User & Partner Conference , held in May in Miami, Florida, was “Logistics Integration — What’s Next?” Sears has a “fanatical focus” on customer satisfaction and Net Promoter Scores.

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Inside Arena: Get to Know High-Tech Customer Success Coach Lori Austin

Arena Solutions

We ensure that all our conversations are documented and distributed to customers for future reference and to keep everyone on the same page. Eventually, communication platforms and data warehouses will be added to the mix. Microsoft Teams and Zoom are the main systems that we use to engage with customers.

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Delivering Green: Three Case Studies in Low-Carbon Logistics

MIT Supply Chain

The goal was to document the projects, and illustrate to other companies that it is possible to reduce cost and become more environmentally friendly. Prior to the collaboration, these boxcars were returning empty to the Florida region. Here is a summary of each project. Ocean Spray: Leveraging Distribution Network Redesign.

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How can Mobile Data Collection Help Companies Meet Supply Chain Benchmarks?

RFgen

For example, what if one of their vendors was in an area prone to hurricanes, such as South Florida. If you looked up the definition of internal benchmarking, you may find that it seems to cater more toward larger companies that have multiple warehouses throughout the U.S. Internal Benchmarking.