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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. One of his innovations was allowing customers to return anything, no questions asked. The field is large and growing.

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Automating The Warehouse with Gary Allen

The Logistics of Logistics

Allen was the leader of Ernst & Young’s logistics advisory practice. Prior to Ernst & Young, he spent seven years with DHL Supply Chain as Vice President of product Development & Innovation as well as Vice President, Solutions, for the company’s Automotive, Chemical, and Industrial business unit.

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The Value of Machine Learning Anomaly Detection in Freight Auditing

Intelligent Audit

A business owner may be aware of the setbacks to poor freight visibility , but anomaly detection might be able to locate precisely who and how it’s impacting the company. . In addition, a complete business intelligence tool can take this data and offer suggestions for freight network optimization and other avenues of improvement.

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Supply Chain Risk Management: 7 Challenges Driving Increased Interest in Managed Service

Logistics Viewpoints

Traditional inventory management strategies were designed with all supply chains being linear, reflecting a manufacturer to retailer to end-user process in accordance with reverse logistics. Therefore, it is easier to increase the volume of freight moving across both inbound and outbound channels. Cybersecurity Concerns Remain.

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UPS fights for volumes

Cathy Roberson

Announced in 2022, the current strategy seeks higher margin volume and increasing worker and facility productivity using automation, artificial intelligence, and other innovations to capture more business. Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets on Air Cargo Next. Heading to Las Vegas next week?

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Is Google the most innovative supply chain company in the world?

Freightos

The secret behind the innovation is Google X , a lab whose boss has the job title “Captain of Moonshot”, focused on looking at what everyone thinks is impossible and flipping it on its head. Inventory management and replenishment as well as reverse logistics can now be managed by mobile as well as payments.

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The Overlooked Supply Chain Issue in Biden's Latest Executive Order - Repairs

Cathy Roberson

President Biden’s July 9th Executive Order , Promoting Competition in the American Economy, created quite a stir in the supply chain community regarding the potential impact on the ocean freight and railroad markets. Repairs are one of the three major pillars of reverse logistics - returns and disposition are the other two.