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Could Looming Supply Chain Risks Sink Your Company?

Material Handling & Logistics

Companies often spend large sums of money researching, developing and manufacturing products with innovative features that customers don’t value. Satellite communications companies, for example, are shifting away from custom-designed hardware-based components to more standardized designs that rely on software for customization.

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Reaching Shoppers this Holiday Season

Enterra Insights

While it’s true that there are always some anecdotal examples of holiday decorations going up in early October, this narrative incorrectly assumes that shoppers use these signals to ramp up their holiday shopping. The philosophy behind targeted marketing is pretty simple. Marketing communications should be tailored to a particular audience.”[4].

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

The extent to which healthcare systems are centralising distribution varies, but in most developed countries at least, hospital supply chains are transforming , with the following two models for example, becoming more prevalent. Certainly the Intermountain supply centre is being hailed as a shining example of supply chain excellence.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19-23, 2018)

Talking Logistics

For another case study example, see The Boston Globe: A Home Delivery and Outsourcing Failure.). Just when you though the Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) mandate was a settled matter, legislators in South Dakota, Missouri, Tennessee and Idaho are still fighting the battle. Four States Push Back on ELD Mandate.