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This Week in Logistics News (October 3-7, 2016)

Talking Logistics

miles I will ride next Saturday with my Logistics Leaders for Type 1 Diabetes Cure teammates at the JDRF Death Valley Ride in California. In the meantime, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: DHL Supply Chain acquires Italian Group MIT Safetrans.

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What Is Order Fulfillment and It’s Process and Strategies

Locus

For the past day, an important news story has been making headlines in the logistics management communities in the US. 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. What’s that?

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This Week in Logistics News (June 17 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. ” 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.

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Converting More Leads to Loads with John Simpson

The Logistics of Logistics

The company is based in Indianapolis. [01:14] I drove to Chicago, lived on my friend’s couch for about a month, and then found a job with a logistics company. I didn’t know what logistics was at first, but I stayed there for ten years before joining Covideo. [03:24] 18:06] How are these videos working for people in logistics?

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This Week in Logistics News (June 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

New York, Charlotte, Detroit, Indianapolis, Delaware and Rhode Island, as well as other areas, remain under air quality alerts. And now on to this week’s logistics news. Customers can recycle the packaging as paper, and yes, while glass bottles are also recyclable, paper bottles are eight times lighter and easier to carry.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 28 – October 2, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Dave Clark, SVP Worldwide Operations and Customer Service at Amazon, was the keynote speaker on Tuesday, and during his talk he announced this week’s top supply chain and logistics news story: Amazon Flex: Amazon will now pay you to deliver packages (The Verge). UPS Asks People to Pick Up Packages Themselves (Bloomberg).

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This Week in Logistics News (August 25-29, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. Announces the Acquisition of ADS Logistics. FedEx Ground loses new legal round with labor (Logistics Management). Could a self-flying vehicle be built and programmed so that it could take off and land anywhere, go really fast, and accurately drop a package from the air?