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Securing the Pickleball Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Or, alternatively, a company carries too much inventory, storage for excess inventory must be purchased, and cash flows become tight. The finished products are then ready to be shipped to big box retailers like Target, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Walmart. They also ship to Amazon to support ecommerce sales. Initially, Ms.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Last night, I took my 13-year-old son to see the movie Air, which tells the story of how Nike pursued basketball rookie Michael Jordan in 1984 to sign with the company. That move, and Michael Jordan’s incredible talent and business acumen, has turned the Jordan brand into a multi-billion-dollar business. Inventories at U.S.

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Revealed: The Sectors Cutting Product Lead Times Fastest

Unleashed

Some moved from just-in-time to just-in-case, even if this meant more cash tied up in inventory and a higher risk of waste. To find out, we have created a Product Lead Time Index using data from our inventory management software to track how product lead times have changed since the height of Covid-19.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 30 – December 4, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Oz’s solutions address a number of pain points for e-commerce shippers by automating logistics and supply chain processes, including order fulfilment, inventory management/scanning, and shipping. airspace).

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[INFOGRAPHIC] 6 Logistics Industry Trends Set to Transform 2016 & Beyond

GlobalTranz

Although logistics providers have been gradually switching towards sustainable efforts, such as the use of natural gas-powered vehicles, the push for sustainability in 2016 will exceed that of previous years, explains Jordan England-Nelson. The Internet of Things Will Increase and Benefit Real Time Inventory Management.

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How Foot Locker is Winning the Multichannel Race: An interview with CEO Ken C. Hicks, Part II

BlueYonder

Hicks: By making the inventory visible to the customers and the stores. When you go into a store, instead of seeing just the inventory in that store, you can effectively utilize the entire inventory of the company. From the store’s perspective, our inventory is much more productive because it is now available to everybody.

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COVID-19 accelerates four trends and changes within global supply chains

Proxima

Neil Jordan, Principal Consultant of Logistics & Supply Chain at Proxima Group, elaborated on return markets during the webinar and said, “The next 12-18 months bring a prime opportunity for supply chain directors to look at return processes from their online strategy to support the next 3-5 years. How do businesses leverage returns?