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Supply Chain Sustainability Gathers Steam

Logistics Viewpoints

The global supply chain is routinely beset by challenges, both large and small, but the past couple of years have delivered a string of significant logistics disruptions that have threatened to upend the tightly choreographed dance of global freight transportation. Regulations may be more of a driver in the future.

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Retail Store Location Planning ? Creating Balance, Driving Profit

Logility

It’s time we asked the obvious question: does it seem like technology is missing from this story? Where are the modern tools that accommodate high-level merchandise decisions, store-level operational planning and customer-centric merchandise execution? Technology showed up and then ran home when things got tough.

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

Talking Logistics

The VP of Supply Chain and Logistics at our house (aka my wife) has been out of the country this week. 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.). Did I mention they eat a lot?

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This Week in Logistics News (October 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

races to expand Michigan locks and secure the supply chain S.-bound Sequoia enables the company to put up items for sale on its website faster and be able to more easily predict delivery estimates, said David Guerin, the company’s director of robotic storage technology. Nine of the outages occurred in the last four years.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

A behemoth in the logistics industry, UPS has operations in shipping, air freight, trucking, last-mile delivery and drone delivery. Revenue: $69.217 billion (12 months ending May 31, 2020), $69.693 billion (2019) Headquarters: Memphis, Tennessee, USA CEO: Frederick W. It manages the supply chain for 69% of the Fortune 100 companies.