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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

This is leading to an inventory pile-up of processors and memory chips used in PCs. Some retailers are learning to love bulked-up inventories. The companies building their inventories are looking to ensure they have items on hand at the right moment. Walgreens takes its delivery service round the clock.

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Top 12 New Logistics Startup Companies Making Noise

ShipBob

Warehousing and storage. Inventory management. Designing systems and innovations that solve problems of today’s shippers. While there are many logistics services to choose from, here are 12 new logistics companies that have shaken up the space with innovative ideas, technology, processes, and more in various verticals.

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Say Customer Service and Mean It

Supply Chain Shaman

And if you speak long enough, you will hear about a supply chain design that delivers growth at twice the rate of competitors while outperforming on cost, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). The two primary manufacturing sites are located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Irmo, South Carolina. The answer? Everybody.”.

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The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment

Freightos

Even closer to end customers, in August, Maersk acquired Visible SCM, a Utah-based B2B/B2C company, which handles over 200,000 orders a day across nine fulfillment centers, as well as a European counterpart. For a company like Amazon, 2021 underscores the importance of owning middle-mile capabilities to ensure resilient inventories.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- March 17 2023

Supply Chain Matters

The software provider will continue to be led by its existing CEO Zig Serafin and reportedly will remain headquartered in Provo, Utah and Seattle, Washington. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that trucking, warehousing and parcel delivery companies cut a combined 16,900 jobs in February, following a decline of 2,200 jobs in January.

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How Robot Implementation Impacts Manufacturing Plant Productivity

Locus Robotics

Factories in manufacturing sectors around the world are already implementing robots in production, inspection, picking, warehousing, and logistics processes. They can use the profits to invest in innovations and value-added activities to increase productivity, or to improve labor productivity through incentives or wage increases.

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

In this traditional model of hospital and healthcare supply, the facility’s loading dock fills up fast each day, with bulk deliveries and small orders arriving constantly, which must then be put away in a warehouse or distributed around a campus. Vendor-managed Inventory. Scanning For Improvement in the Hospital Supply Chain.