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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. At this stage, businesses check if items are safe and secure and if the inventory levels are accurate and optimized for better space. For the past day, an important news story has been making headlines in the logistics management communities in the US.

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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. All these things can be ameliorated through the use of a powerful optimization engine like this one.

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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. While many such attacks are opportunistic, with criminals often pouncing on holes in defenses where they can find them, security chiefs within the food supply chain worry that it could be a key target for more sophisticated hackers.

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

Talking Logistics

LLamasoft Secures $50 Million in Funding from Goldman Sachs. It will be available soon in New York, Baltimore, Miami, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Indianapolis, Atlanta and Portland. UPS Asks People to Pick Up Packages Themselves (Bloomberg). UPS Invests in Ally Commerce to Learn About Direct Online Sales (WSJ – sub.