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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

Limited Shipping: Dropshipping wasn’t designed for order fulfillment, which impacted Lull’s delivery promise, as well as everyday operations. When they were ready to expand into more fulfillment locations, they didn’t have to spend time sourcing new solutions. With FLEXE, they have also reduced shipping costs.

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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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Inventory Distortion Will Cost Retailers $1.77 Trillion in 2023. Here’s How Blue Yonder Can Help.

BlueYonder

In North America, retail loss due to out-of-stocks actually increased by a staggering 17.7% Shoppers get accurate fulfillment dates before and after check-out — and retailers can reduce the cost-to-serve through sourcing optimization, while still meeting customer expectations. But out-of-stocks remain an enormous issue.

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

Talking Logistics

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. Even Canada, a country that’s not exactly famous for shipping disasters, was virtually cut in half by a single unexpected bridge collapse in 2016.

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Freight Audit: 10 Freight Invoice Considerations Impacting Spend

Intelligent Audit

While each shipping mode presents more complexity for managing the freight audit , having a single validated source of truth across your supply chain opens up endless possibilities for shipment and cost optimization. Some of these fees are unknown at the time of shipping. Download the White Paper. Accessorial Cost Add Up.

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