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This Week in Logistics News (October 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. This includes trucking capacity concerns, port congestion , and warehouse staff. The company said it has invested more in inventory planning and partnerships with suppliers so it has enough goods on hand while making sure it can route items to where they’re urgently needed.

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Gathering Inventory Data with Sankalp Arora

The Logistics of Logistics

Sankalp Arora and Joe Lynch discuss gathering inventory data, a function that is being transformed by Sankalp’s company Gather AI. Sankalp is CEO and Co-founder at Gather AI, a warehouse automation company that has created the world’s first drone-powered inventory monitoring solution.

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Ecommerce Logistics: From Your Site to Their Doorstep

ShipBob

As the ecommerce industry grows, the logistics of getting orders to customers has become more complicated — especially with the novel coronavirus impacting entire supply chains. But the ecommerce logistics infrastructure needed to meet consumers’ demands is not easy to achieve by yourself. What is ecommerce logistics?

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The Supply Chain’s Groundhog Day Experience

Enterra Insights

The movie is about a cynical television weatherman named Phil Connors (played brilliantly by Bill Murray) who is assigned to cover the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. The staff at My Logistics Magazine explains, “The labor shortage in many logistics sectors around the world remains severe.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. Most online shoppers assume that items they return go back into regular inventory, to be sold again at full price.

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Employee Spotlight: Jamil, Operations Intern

Stord

I was first introduced to the complex world of logistics and supply chain in one of my freshman courses at the University of Pennsylvania. Helping to compile a database of warehouses to speed up the procurement process with Network Services. Why did you choose to intern at STORD? What do you do at STORD?

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WordPress Ecommerce Shipping: Scaling Your Online Store Through Shipping

ShipBob

You can fulfill orders yourself, become a dropshipper, or work with a third-party logistics (3PL) company. Since you likely don’t have the funds to pay for warehousing or have massive amounts of products to store, you’re going to store your inventory however you can. You have to store your inventory yourself (e.g.,