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This Week in Logistics News (October 8-12, 2018)

Talking Logistics

I have to go to the grocery store again today to replenish our inventory (yeah, I don’t shop for groceries online; as the son of a bodegero, I’m old fashioned that way.). Alexa Heads to the Warehouse (WSJ – sub. Warehouse Space Growing Tighter on Rising E-Commerce Demands (WSJ – sub. Alexa in the Warehouse.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 26 – March 4)

Logistics Viewpoints

Market fulfillment centers are a compact, modular warehouse built inside or added to a store, which, in addition to fresh and frozen items, can store thousands of the items. The pace of inventory accumulation reported by the Commerce Department on Monday was, however, slower than in recent months. The new pool, to be known as SACP 3.0,

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Equipping Your Supply Chain Risk Management Kit

Enterra Insights

This may include: Supplier/Production Disruptions; Warehouse Shortages; Transit Delays; Theft; Consumer Demand Changes; Cyber Security; [and] Software Risk.” ” I think they are mistaken when they assert you can’t plan for unpredictable risks. .”[5]