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The 7 Best Events For Freight Shipping in 2015

GlobalTranz

3PL Summit & Chief Supply Chain Officer Forum by EyeForTransport Chicago, IL June 16 -18. The 3PL Summit is North America’s largest and most high-level gathering of logistics executives and their manufacturer and retailer supply chain counterparts. FTR Transportation Conference 2015 Indianapolis, Indiana; September 15-17.

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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. Shipping the order The packaged orders are transported from the warehouse to the final customer destination during this stage. A company must choose this strategy based on future goals, customer demand, and current business constraints. What’s that?

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Addressing Labor Shortages in Warehouse and DC Operations

NC State SCRC

Workers are so scarce that, in many parts of the country, low-skill jobs are being handed out to pretty much anyone willing to take them – and high-skilled workers are in even shorter supply.”. facility at an Indianapolis, Ind., Wilson, 59, was released in 2013 he sought out training at Goodwill, where he learned to drive a forklift.

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Is Your Freight Spilling Millions Across the Interstate?

Supply Chain Collaborator

A Brinks armored truck traveling down Interstate 70 outside Indianapolis this week had its rear doors open sending more than $600,000 in twenty-dollar bills exploding across all 8 lanes of rush hour traffic. Here’s how you may be hemorrhaging cash over the road and what you can do about it.

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

Talking Logistics

Global Demand for Supply Chain Executives Drives Heidrick & Struggles To Tap Expert As Partner. And here’s an excerpt from an in-depth report in The Atlantic : In the two years [he worked on Project Wing], [Nick Roy’s] goal was simple: figure out if the idea of drone delivery made sense to work on. Was it possible?

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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).