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This Week in Logistics News (February 19-23, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Transplace Joins Blockchain in Transport Alliance. Procuring logistics services is not the same as buying paper clips, yet that’s how many procurement organizations approach it. Procuring logistics services is not the same as buying paper clips, yet that’s how many procurement organizations approach it.

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AASHTO 2019 Annual Meeting, Oct. 5-9

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Louis, Missouri. The AASHTO Annual Meeting is one of the industry’s most important gatherings of transportation, government and commercial organizations. The Annual Meeting offers transportation executives the opportunity to network and share the latest in industry policies and innovations. Come and visit us at Booth 418!

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Digitizing Check Calls with Trey Griggs and Ryan Rogers

The Logistics of Logistics

After graduating from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, Trey began his career as a high school physics teacher and coach. At Covenant, Ryan had direct responsibility for technology, continuous improvement, mergers and acquisitions, innovation and strategic planning across the Covenant enterprise. His experience at U.S.

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Could Looming Supply Chain Risks Sink Your Company?

Material Handling & Logistics

Instead of trying to cut costs silo by silo, these companies take an integrated view of operations (product design, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain management). Companies often spend large sums of money researching, developing and manufacturing products with innovative features that customers don’t value.

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

Centralisation then, is all about taking procurement and logistics out of the hands of medical professionals and placing it under its own governance structure. The aforementioned NHS for instance has partnered with a large logistics-service company, which owns the distribution centres and transport fleets that supply NHS hospitals.