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The Definitive Guide on Produce Season Transportation Impacts

Zipline Logistics

Produce season transportation can have an impact on your freight, even if you do not ship grains, fruits, or vegetables. Even if you don’t grow or ship produce, your transportation performance and spend can still be directly impacted. How Produce Season Transportation Affects Rates and Capacity – State by State.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

The six areas are energy use, nature, waste, packaging, transportation, and product use and design. Walmart began working with Alert in 2016 and launched a test of the autonomous cart-based system in a 20,000-square-foot warehouse connected to a supercenter in Salem, New Hampshire, in 2019. Robots are everywhere these days.

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Is a 3PL Service Provider Right for Your Company? 4 Questions to Ask Yourself

GlobalTranz

Recently, they started a series featuring MBAs in the supply chain space , and this post really stood out to us as Cerasis is a 3PL service provider focused on Transportation Management. . He will complete his MBA from the University of New Hampshire in 2015. Core values make you who you are. They are the DNA of the company.

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How Do We Know National Network for Manufacturing Innovation is Working? Because China is Copying It.

GlobalTranz

Editor's note: This is a guest blog from our friend Adam Nager from the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation or ITIF. China’s new manufacturing policy roadmap, unveiled in 2015 and called Made in China 2025, includes numerous policy initiatives designed to create an advantage for China in 10 key advanced-technology industries.

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Antitrust and the Supply Chain: Protecting the Power of the Markets

NC State SCRC

Generally speaking, the Antitrust Division can start investigating based on just about any source of information, including complaints from private citizens. For instance, the FBI may share information from a corruption investigation, which generates possible leads for antitrust investigations.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

We also saw a lot of technological advances in transportation, warehousing, supply chain planning, robotics, and last mile delivery, just to name a few. The carriers’ levies are based on the on-highway diesel prices set each week by the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration. That’s all for this week and for 2023.

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Big Data Analytics and the Future of Business

Enterra Insights

The Digital Age has also been called the Information Age; however, there is a slight difference between the two depictions of the age in which we live. The Digital Age describes a world in which information is digitized. And digitized information is perhaps a company’s most valuable asset. What is Big Data Analytics?

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