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This Week in Logistics News (June 17 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

” Walmart opened its largest fulfillment center on June 15 outside of Indianapolis. Target has a new way to speed packages to customers who live in the farther-out suburbs and neighborhoods of major cities, as it tries to give its e-commerce business a jolt. in McCordsville. The new car market isn’t quite yet out of the woods.

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Stord Partners with IPG to Launch New Warehouse Collaboration After Centralizing eCommerce Operations with a Single Integration to Connect Their ERP to Stord’s Omni-Channel Distribution Network

Stord

Both the integration and the expansion will serve to continually extend the packaging manufacturer’s market reach and exceed their ecommerce customers’ delivery expectations. “We Then the IPG team was introduced to Stord, who set up a forward stocking location for IPG in Indianapolis.

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The Supply Chain Can?t Stop: A story from the front lines at Ken?s Foods

Elementum

Today, they produce and package over 1,000 varieties of dressings and sauces — including category leader, Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce — across 4 plants near Boston, Indianapolis, Atlanta, and Las Vegas. With no plants overseas, Ken’s Foods was spared the early supply chain ripple effect related to COVID-19 in Asia and Europe.

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What Is Order Fulfillment and It’s Process and Strategies

Locus

million square feet at McCordsville, twenty miles northeast of Indianapolis. Order fulfillment is receiving, processing, packaging, tracking, and delivering orders to the final customer destination. Also, it allows companies to track, refill, and manage their inventory levels. What’s that? Why is it important? Let’s fill in!

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Deadstock – Meaning, Causes, Prevention and Remedies

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It happens when your inventory doesn’t move for various reasons. And they’re adding to the holding cost of inventory. Deadstock is the inventory product that never gets sold and now occupies the store shelves way longer than expected. They usually have the original packaging and tags intact.