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Now or Never: Why Supply Chain Sustainability is Non-Negotiable in 2022

Locus

It is worth noting that North America has a much higher emission intensity than sub-Saharan Africa, despite Africa being significantly larger and housing more countries. Source: Statista.com. The latter was so severe that cargo ships had to run at half their usual capacity. Download Now! Ethical sourcing of goods.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America. CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. FedEx Helps Small Businesses Streamline Shipping with fedex.com Integration Manager.

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Lull Case Study: Order Fulfillment that Doesn’t Keep You Up at Night

FLEXE

They had previously been relying on dropshipping from their manufacturers, but that left them with little flexibility to improve their delivery promise. Limited Shipping: Dropshipping wasn’t designed for order fulfillment, which impacted Lull’s delivery promise, as well as everyday operations. They turned to FLEXE. 6X increase in SKUs.

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An Intelligent Alternative to WMS: Gaining Real-Time Inventory Visibility Without the Complexity

RFgen

Uncover the Hidden Costs of Manual Warehouse Processes DOWNLOAD NOW » The Hidden Drawbacks of Best-of-Breed WMS When leveraging technology to improve warehouse operations, your first instinct may be to search for the best WMS on the market equipped with all the bells and whistles. Significant financial investment = higher level of risk.

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Do You Have a Proactive Supply Chain Design or a Reactive One?

Talking Logistics

Factors like global trade and a customization trend in manufacturing have altered the “straight shot” supply chain forever. While civil unrest could slow down production or shipments in a foreign country, natural disasters can accomplish just as much shipping disruption in North America. To Sum It All Up.

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23 logistics professionals share the #1 way to reduce logistics costs

6 River Systems

A shift to manufacturing critical goods like pharmaceuticals in the United States would lead to higher production costs, for instance. billion, while transportation costs increased by 10.4% trillion and motor carrier costs rose 10.1% transportation network and other logistics challenges. ” Importing foreign goods into the U.S.

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Retail Distribution Center Automation: 6 Factors to Consider

C3 Solutions

Download for later. Consumers are no longer bound by loyalty or geographic necessity in their purchase decisions. With low unemployment, workers will jump ship for an extra dollar or two an hour, or for benefits. [5] This article is part of our Retail Program. Learn more about it now! 20 Min Read.