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The Smart Warehousing Story with Carl Wasinger

The Logistics of Logistics

Carl graduated from Kansas State University with a business degree and a focus on Information Systems, as well as from Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute with a warehouse operations focus. inventory accuracy rate. Key Takeaways: The Smart Warehousing Story.

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Looking Back on a Fulfilling Career in the Transportation Industry

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Mark Bogucki, our general manager in Kansas City, recently announced he would retire at the end of 2015. President Jimmy Carter signed the Motor Carrier Act of 1980, which deregulated the trucking industry in the United States. Keep in mind that, prior to deregulation, just in time inventory hadn’t even been thought about.

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

Vendor-managed Inventory. While this form of inventory management may not totally transform a healthcare supply chain, many healthcare providers have turned to VMI as a way to improve service and cost performance. This was the experience of the Mercy Health System, one of the largest healthcare providers in the United States.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 17 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

Focal Systems’ solution is integrated with Walmart Canada’s existing inventory systems to automatically detect availability concerns and direct store teams to replenish products. Panasonic plans to resolve the bottleneck in early 2024 when it starts producing the advanced cells at the $4 billion battery factory it’s building in Kansas.

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Your Trade War Survival Secret: Sales and Operations Planning – Part 1

DynaSys

First, ST must make decisions regarding the size and location of inventories. More tactically, how to adjust inventory stocks across distribution centers? Sales and Operations Planning No Longer Optional. This is when Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) displays its tremendous value. Distribution Planning.

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Webinar Recap: The Case for a Pan-American Manufacturing Ecosystem

Resilinc

The quest for greater supply chain resilience will involve some re-shoring of manufacturing to the United States, as advocated by the Biden Administration in its recent recommendations for securing supplies of key materials and products. That has dramatically increased the cash tied up in inventory,” said Rogers.