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Getting Smarter About Logistics and Sustainability

BlueYonder

In a panel discussion at ICON Las Vegas 2023, Chinmay Jaju, Senior Manager of Strategy for Uber Freight, summed up the tough challenge facing logistics professionals today. How exactly do warehouse and transportation management solutions contribute to solving the complex problem of sustainability?

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This Week in Logistics News (November 26 – December 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

The application, called AWS Supply Chain, was introduced at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. The application then maps the information, highlighting current inventory selection and quantity at each location, the Amazon unit said. Ninety-six hours before a strike date, chemicals are no longer transported.

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Calling Reverse Logistics Startups – RLA to host Startup Competition

Cathy Roberson

The increased investments were attributed to supply chain disruptions such as raw material shortages, delays at ports, labor shortages, lack of warehousing space, and tight capacity across all modes of transportation. · Increased costs “driven by cost of freight.” of the total $80 billion in funding.

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Contracts, Cancellations, and Closures: Persistent Trends Leave a Pre-Peak Season Logistics Industry on Edge

Intelligent Audit

However, transportation management experts caution logistics providers not to get too excited. Speaking at a recent event in Las Vegas, Patton said, “ This business model is hurting to a degree where my company individually has to see change from FedEx Ground,” according to reporting from SupplyChainDive. Cash-Strapped U.P.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

MercuryGate Launches Global, Omni-modal Freight Procurement Solution. Marten Transport Ltd. Shippers are under enormous pressure to cut transportation costs and seem not to be satisfied with the massive fuel surcharge reductions racked up over the past year and a half.”. Analysts at Stifel Inc. Hub Group Inc.,

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This Week in Logistics News (August 28 – September 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

Toy makers fear that although the demand for toys will be there this holiday season, the physical inventory will not. They will range from order fillers to freight handlers at the company’s more than 250 distribution centers, fulfillment centers, and transportation offices.