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28 supply chain professionals share the biggest challenges of supply chain management

6 River Systems

Our supply chain involves a contract manufacturer, a third-party testing facility, warehouses to store inventory and a freighting company. For example, if my contract manufacturer is late with an order it can cause me to incur excess costs with the freighting and warehousing companies, respectively.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 9-13, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Target invests in Minneapolis start-up that helps retailers monitor supply chains (Star Tribune). November 2016 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Source: Amazon patent filing. Uber debuts Movement, a new website offering access to its traffic data (TechCrunch). UPS Acquires Freightex Ltd. products (Reuters).

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This Week in Logistics News (February 18 – 24)

Logistics Viewpoints

It already has opened nine, after testing the concept in its hometown of Minneapolis. More companies are exploring ways to staff warehouses with robots but may have to wait a few years for the technology to catch up. .” And now on to this week’s logistics news. The expansion will also grow Target’s workforce.