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Peet’s Coffee and the Roasted Bean Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Craft food products usually have unique flavors and are sell at a premium price. In DSD, instead of shipping truckload quantities of goods directly to a retailer’s regional distribution center every few weeks, a manufacturer has their own account representatives that sell to and service individual stores.

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Warehousing News Roundup: April 1, 2019

Stord

This Express Lane initiative – the company’s name for new tools and solutions – has placed materials closer to factories, reduced manufacturing delays, and predicted customer demand more accurately. Food Lion and its sister grocery chains in the United States are adopting artificial intelligence to transform how they get food from suppliers.

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The Parable of Walmart, Target Stores and Vertical Farming

Supply Chain Collaborator

Case in point, the Wall Street Journal reports that these three giants (among others) have reshaped their logistics plans to avoid US West Coast-bound ocean routes (and the subsequent OTR and rail routes) due to recent labor-dispute-driven disruptions at ports in Long Beach and Oakland.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 17-21, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Oakland port terminals plan PierPass-style program (JOC). Employing over 8,000 transportation and fulfillment professionals, OHL has unparalleled experience in direct-to-consumer fulfillment, serving a wide range of business sectors from specialty retail to manufacturing. ATA Truck Tonnage Index Jumped 2.8%

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This Week in Logistics News (May 15 – 21)

Logistics Viewpoints

For Amazon customers, things could certainly be a bit overwhelming as they tried to decipher the difference between Amazon Go, Amazon Go Grocery, Amazon Fresh grocery stores, Amazon Fresh delivery, Whole Foods delivery, and Prime Now delivery. Port of Oakland sets all-time cargo record. And now on to this week’s logistics news.