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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

Instead, they are printed ahead of time, for both teams. Xeneta currently puts the Asia-West Coast spot rate at just under $10,000 per FEU, with some cargoes paying additional priority shipment fees of $1,400-$7,500. While printing operations have been greatly improved, clearly there is no way that these items are printed on-demand.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 15 – 21)

Logistics Viewpoints

Artificial intelligence has been applied to just about every supply chain application imaginable, including transportation management and execution, demand planning, supply chain planning, warehouse management, and order management. Warehouse rents near cargo airports skyrocket. was the fourth this year at an Amazon warehouse.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

Richard crossed the finish line at 2:52 pm, which was almost the exact time the bombs went off. This past Monday marked the first normal Boston Marathon since 2019, as the 2020 marathon was canceled due to the Covid pandemic, and the 2021 marathon was shifted to October with a smaller field. And what a race it was.

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People and Halal Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In other words, halal requires an organisation of the supply chain instead of just the factory: from source all the way up to point of consumer purchase. This new standard has three modules: transportation, warehousing, and retailing. These are first and possibly even second tier customers (e.g.: ingredient supplier, slaughter house).

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How Europe is Coping with Supply Chain Disruption

Jaggaer

Just-in-time delivery of finished goods and components has been put under tremendous strain. Yet with the autobahns, motorways and highways largely free of traffic apart from freight, goods are generally getting through and we are yet to see long-term shortages of food and other essential items. pic.twitter.com/T8B9C8bbi9.

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

A growing global warehouse capacity crunch. Already reeling from the effects of the two-year COVID-19 pandemic, supply chains around the world, encompassing a wide range of industries, are now seeing increasing disruption caused by another massive crisis of our times, Russia’s war on Ukraine. The grain blockaded in Ukraine.

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Leonardo da Vinci and Supply Chain Management

Enterra Insights

To help them in this effort, supply chain managers would do well to look to one of the greatest connectors of all time — Leonardo da Vinci. We evaluate our successes by cost savings and shortened cycle times and order fulfilment cycles.” 1] The more complex businesses become the more important supply chains are. .”[2]