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Casey’s General Stores Supply Chain Team Contributes to Strong Financial Results

Logistics Viewpoints

Whereas many of their competitors’ source from wholesalers like McLane or Core-Mark, Casey’s supplies their stores with groceries, food, health and beauty aids, and general merchandise from the distribution centers (DCs). In their warehouses, some workers operate forklifts and pick full pallets of heavier items, like bottled water.

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CSR Initiatives in the Global Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In Malaysia, CEVA Logistics worked closely with L’Oréal , a major producer of luxury and consumer products, to develop a social initiative of providing jobs for the hearing impaired at our warehouse since June 2020. CEVA was responsible for delivering hundreds of parts to the GM Kokomo, Indiana, facility, in the U.S.,

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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Logistics Viewpoints

The company is also accelerating deployment of its Geo Box delivery system, which replaces bay delivery trucks with specially designed trailers that are pre-loaded at the warehouse. Scope 1 emissions include direct emissions from the company’s owned and controlled sources. PepsiCo has farmers they directly source from.

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Optimizing Ecommerce Warehouse Costs: Spend Less, Gain More

ShipBob

Warehousing is expensive. Setting up and maintaining a warehouse makes up a significant portion of your overall ecommerce operational costs and has a heavy impact on your bottom line. If you’re considering renting or buying a warehouse, you need to keep these expenses in mind. Let’s get started.

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Thanksgiving 2018

Enterra Insights

At the original Thanksgiving feast, the pickings were much slimmer and all ingredients were sourced locally. 1] She note there are only two known historical sources describing the three-day long feast shared by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag natives at Plymouth Colony in 1621. Most of those turkeys are raised in 14 states.

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The Future of Logistics with Courtney Muller

The Logistics of Logistics

It’s interesting that fulfillment and warehousing are more important with eCommerce. They are consolidating these warehouses with technology. It used to be that I have one warehouse in Indiana and I can get to 65% of the population one day. Are they using this over the road or in warehouses, or is that both?

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Data, Cognitive Technology, and Industry 4.0

Enterra Insights

.” Fans of Indiana Jones’ movies, will remember the scene at the end of the first movie where the crate containing the Ark of the Covenant is placed in a huge warehouse containing thousands of similar crates. The implication is pretty clear — the likelihood of the Ark being discovered in the warehouse is slim to none.