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COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict Global Supply Chain News Capsule March 23 2022

Supply Chain Matters

based Kansas City Southern , pending full regulatory approvals which is expected sometime this year. Surface Transportation Board on the merger with Kansas City Southern. . importers are resetting inventory ordering strategies to avoid any contentious contract talks this summer. East Coast Ports the Likely Next Test.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 14-18, 2014)

Talking Logistics

In this week’s news… HighJump Software Acquires Atlas Products International, Expands Global Trading Partner Network in Europe. UPS, meanwhile, announced that it has developed “a healthcare-compliant network of Field Stocking Locations (FSLs) to reduce delivery time of medical device shipments and enhance inventory visibility.”

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This Week in Logistics News (September 17 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

Focal Systems’ solution is integrated with Walmart Canada’s existing inventory systems to automatically detect availability concerns and direct store teams to replenish products. Panasonic plans to resolve the bottleneck in early 2024 when it starts producing the advanced cells at the $4 billion battery factory it’s building in Kansas.

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

Vendor-managed Inventory. While this form of inventory management may not totally transform a healthcare supply chain, many healthcare providers have turned to VMI as a way to improve service and cost performance. Other healthcare providers have chosen to create their own logistics divisions to run their self-distribution operations.