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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper University Health Care Relies Upon Real-time Alerts to Improve Operations Cooper University Health Care, like most companies, struggled with their supply chain during COVID. The company bought a risk solution that provides real-time alerts to potential supply disruptions. We knew exactly what we couldn’t get.”

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Brick-and-mortar stores also allow shoppers to return unwanted purchases. Tony Hsieh, the company’s legendary late CEO, offered free returns for up to a year after purchase and encouraged people to order items in multiple styles and sizes. Some retailers simply refund certain purchases, no need to send anything back.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

It has radically transformed supply chains, fundamentally changed domestic and international economies across the world, and changed societies in the process – all the while driving trillions dollars in annual trade. First use of a modern container for ocean freight. Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports.

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How the Bakken Oil Boom Impacts U.S. Supply Chains

CH Robinson Transportfolio

For those of us in neighboring states, North Dakota is the source of a clichéd “giant sucking sound,” the likes of which this generation has never experienced. There are similar scenarios playing out in Texas and Pennsylvania as well. So why does this matter for supply chain professionals? Rail Capacity.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

The Freightos System is SaaS for freight contract management, automatic price quotations, and business intelligence. It has radically transformed supply chains, fundamentally changed domestic and international economies across the world, and changed societies in the process – all the while driving trillions dollars in annual trade.

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Accessing Bathrooms

Cathy Roberson

(Source: Reddit ) There’s been a lot of supply chain pains over the years, many of which are well documented – port congestion, capacity issues, rising spot rates, plunging spot rates, hidden fees, maxed out warehouses – just to name a few but one that I’m still trying to wrap my head around is access to bathrooms.

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Ecommerce Logistics: From Your Site to Their Doorstep

ShipBob

As the ecommerce industry grows, the logistics of getting orders to customers has become more complicated — especially with the novel coronavirus impacting entire supply chains. Ecommerce logistics starts with moving inventory from the manufacturer and lasts until it ends up at the end customer’s destination.