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Food Supply Chains look to Buck Out-Of-Stocks, Black Friday Prep Begins, Fuel Costs Wane

Intelligent Audit

AB5 Protests Crush Oakland Port Operations. Taste of Home shared ten of the top most backordered items as chickpeas, wheat, sugar, avocados, paper goods, canned goods, eggs and meat, pet food, baby formula, and liquor. Trucker protests continue nearly a month after the CA AB5 labor law went live.

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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. Thus, in addition to their roasting plant with an inbound warehouse attached to it, and a warehouse for outbound finished goods in nearby Oakland, the company also has 700 reps that source their product from roughly 100 small DSD warehouses across the nation.

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Peak Shipping Season: A Review of Trends from the 2018 Holiday Peak Season

GlobalTranz

Amazon’s Dominion Grew Through Whole Foods, Brick-and-Mortar Space Amazon was a clear frontrunner in the 2018 peak shipping season, and a significant portion of their sales can be attributed to the rise of Amazon in the brick-and-mortar space. According to MoreThanShipping.com , goods represented a considerable change in shipping standards.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 28 – June 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

How Shanghai’s lockdown is dampening Port of Oakland volumes. Legislation introduced to improve food safety and hold FDA accountable. The Port of Oakland reported cargo in April dropped 7 percent compared to the same period a year ago due to factory and port shutdowns in China. And now on this week’s logistics news.

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Takeaways from 65th Annual Food Shippers of America Conference

Talking Logistics

That was my favorite quote from Billy Beane’s keynote presentation at the 65th Annual Food Shippers of America Conference earlier this week in Orlando, Florida. Beane is the Executive VP of Baseball Operations for the Oakland A’s, but he’s best known for Moneyball, the.

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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). OHL specializes in the sectors of apparel, electronics, healthcare, food and beverage, and consumer packaged goods. New Target COO’s headache: Too few goods to keep shelves filled (Reuters). Google Express Plans to Shut Down Its Two Delivery Hubs (Re/Code).