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What Contractors Need to Streamline Procurement in 2025

IT Supply Chain

This isn’t a one-off disaster: it’s what procurement chaos looks like in 2025 when workflows are outdated and systems don’t talk to each other. The smartest contractors are switching to integrated platforms that unify purchasing, payments, and supplier coordination all in one place.

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Walmart Looks to Expand Drone Deliveries to Five Cities

Supply Chain Brain

As part of its partnership with drone company Wing, the retail giant intends to bring drone deliveries to Houston, Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta and Charlotte by June of 2026, and will expand existing services in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. A year later, the retailer added drone deliveries to its app for DFW customers.

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26 supply chain pros reveal the single most effective way to create a winning supply chain strategy

6 River Systems

With new supply chain innovations , trends in logistics technology and advancements like automated robots making a big impact on operational efficiency, it seems that supply chain optimization is within reach for more companies than ever before. This system was remarkably effective in forcing the customer into a “volunteer brand evangelist.”

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IFDA Distribution Solutions Conference

Herlitz Inventory Management

The IFDA Distribution Solutions Conference is being held October 16 – 18, 2016 at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, FL . Come visit us at Booth 1029 and see how are next generation product, HIMPACT, delivers daily forecasting and analytics deliver optimized inventory and service across your supply chain.

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Are You Smarter Than a TMS?

Talking Logistics

A couple of weeks ago, I visited MIT to give a presentation on transportation management systems (TMS) to a masters class. Ace has 3 distribution warehouses (Tampa, FL; Chicago, IL; and Atlanta, GA.). Current inventory for the Le Fancy t-shirts at the warehouses are 31,000 in Tampa, 10,000 in Chicago, and 15,000 in Atlanta.

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Hurricane Irma Updates

Elementum

Its rapid development from a tropical cone into a weather system the size of Texas continues to be a cause for concern. The weather system has already claimed two lives and injured at least another two people. Keep yourself updated: as Irma approaches the contiguous United States, more detailed forecasts will become available.

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Hurricane Irma's Chemical Fallout Could Be Worse than Harvey's

Material Handling & Logistics

It moved the peroxides away from chemicals like sulfur dioxide to the nine trailers with their own cooling systems. Port Tampa Bay alone handles ammonia, unleaded gasoline, sulfuric acid and ethanol. When Harvey cut power, Arkema turned to generators that flooded; as at Fukushima, they were below the level of the rising waters.