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Guest blog: With the Truck Driver Shortage, How Many More Drivers will be Enough?

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Robinson Director of Research and Market Intelligence: The truck driver shortage is top of mind for many as supply chain disruptions continue, port backlogs persist, and the gap between inventory supply and sales demand widens. How many more truck drivers are needed to balance demand for truck transportation with the supply of capacity?

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Best Practices for Reusing Food Transport Containers in the Food Processing Supply Chain

RFgen

Instead of creating disposable transport containers for food products, many consumable manufacturers and suppliers opt to use reusable storage bins in their warehouse management strategies and supply chain activities. Food Safety News reported a Massachusetts consumer will sue a bakery for using old egg cartons to store discarded shells.

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Best Practices for Reusing Food Transport Containers in the Food Processing Supply Chain

RFgen

Instead of creating disposable transport containers for food products, many consumable manufacturers and suppliers opt to use reusable storage bins in their warehouse management strategies and supply chain activities. Food Safety News reported a Massachusetts consumer will sue a bakery for using old egg cartons to store discarded shells.

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How to Learn About Supply Chain Research From Around the World in a Few Hours

MIT Supply Chain

These are: the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (Cambridge, USA), the Zaragoza Logistics Center (Zaragoza, Spain), the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (Bogotá, Colombia), and the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (Shah Alam, Malaysia). Obtain more information and register here.

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Supply Chain Redesign: A Conversation with Lennox International’s Keith Nash

Talking Logistics

With a complex mix of inbound and outbound transportation modes, we’ve had to tailor our fulfillment from full truckload shipments outbound to more small-pack and courier shipments. Some of the key benefits we’ve realized are lower transportation costs, record service levels and shorter cycle times, and better inventory accuracy.

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2021 Trends in Supply Chain Sustainability

Vanguard Software

Inventory : Vanguard Predictive Planning enables supply chain professionals visibility across the entire network to optimize the fulfillment of each order and to purposefully position inventory closer to the consumer providing both faster availability and lower emissions.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

Reducing lead times from suppliers can help turn inventory faster, freeing up cash and ultimately satisfying customers. In addition the growing importance of local information about environmental risk, such as water shortages faced by business or employment conditions, can be critical in supply chain decision making.