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Getting Smarter About Logistics and Sustainability

BlueYonder

In a panel discussion at ICON Las Vegas 2023, Chinmay Jaju, Senior Manager of Strategy for Uber Freight, summed up the tough challenge facing logistics professionals today. Dynamic tasking, dynamic slotting and real-time inventory management maximize resource efficiency. But on many occasions, it doesn’t have to,” he explained.

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The Supply Chain Can?t Stop: A story from the front lines at Ken?s Foods

Elementum

Today, they produce and package over 1,000 varieties of dressings and sauces — including category leader, Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce — across 4 plants near Boston, Indianapolis, Atlanta, and Las Vegas. With no plants overseas, Ken’s Foods was spared the early supply chain ripple effect related to COVID-19 in Asia and Europe.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 26 – December 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

FedEx Express Europe debuts renewable diesel in Netherlands. The application, called AWS Supply Chain, was introduced at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The application then maps the information, highlighting current inventory selection and quantity at each location, the Amazon unit said.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

The orders are being fulfilled from about 160 Best Buy stores in markets that include Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Seattle and Washington. Most delivery fees range from $12 to $20, except for printer ink, which Best Buy is delivering for free.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 28 – September 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

Toy makers fear that although the demand for toys will be there this holiday season, the physical inventory will not. Nuro said it is “taking over” 74 acres of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway to build a “world-class, closed-course testing facility that will allow sophisticated development and validation of its autonomous on-road vehicles.”.