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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

The Cooper University Health Care Supply Chain Cooper University Health Care is the leading academic health system in southern New Jersey. Many of their suppliers were using the same sub-tier manufacturers. Cooper uses this solution to improve their service levels and operational efficiencies.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

While companies continue to take steps to fight counterfeit goods, it is becoming increasingly harder to keep counterfeits off secondary markets (and you’ll see more of that in the news roundup). And now on to this week’s logistics news. Inventories at U.S. So, wish me luck in securing authentic University Blue Jordan IVs.

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NRF 2022: 4 Big Session Themes from Retail’s Big Show

ToolsGroup

Sam Ruda, Director Port Department, Port Authority of NY and NJ attributed the 30% spike in container volume to the huge increase in consumer demand, but encourages retailers to consider New York and New Jersey ports as they flex capacity and benefit from a host of infrastructure projects.

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Alexander Graham Bell and the Evolution of Communications

QAD

And the effects of the use of mobile devices and enabled communications on manufacturing, for example, have been staggering. Martin Cooper made the first cell phone call on April 3, 1973, from midtown Manhattan to Bell Labs in New Jersey, saying something along the lines of “I’m just calling to see if it sounds good on your end.”.

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TMS Optimization: Transitioning from “Nice to Have” to “Must Have”

Talking Logistics

As inventory comes into the pool network, it gives you more opportunities to dynamically adjust the optimization solve as time progresses. For manufacturers, the ability to do coast-to-coast intermodal transfers using rail schedules can save quite a bit. This has tremendous potential to reduce costs.

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Continued Disruption and Added Cost Inflation Reflected in Key Global Transportation and Logistics Indices in March and Q1 2022

Supply Chain Matters

While port operations remain open, trucking firms and logistics carriers remain constrained in their ability to move both import and export inventory because of the local restrictions and mass testing requirements that are impacting worker availability. Because of this, both Inventory Costs (91.0) US Logistics Index. this month. ’.

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A Beef With Manufacturers: Vegetarian Consumers Want Supply Chain Visibility

RFgen

Protecting the purity of the manufacturing process and the supply chain isn’t always a matter of safety. Some consumers avoid beef and pork for health reasons, others want to protest the means by which manufacturers produce meat products. Three New Jersey appellate judges found the plaintiffs had grounds for action.