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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. Everything from contrast dye, to tubing, to medical devices with embedded semiconductor chips would suddenly become difficult to source.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 21 – 27)

Logistics Viewpoints

The joint press release points out the technology’s ability to build palletized loads of department-sorted inventory and its strategic role in supporting Walmart’s goal of modernizing its vast supply chain network and allowing the company to transform its regional distribution centers to provide faster responsiveness to store orders.

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National Logistics Day 2023

Enterra Insights

By 1956, the first container ship sailed from the port of New Jersey to Texas. By having more efficient delivery routes, warehouses, and inventory systems in place, companies can reduce their operational costs while still delivering great customer service.” Shipments forever changed how goods moved around the world.

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Amazon’s Added Shockwave- Plans to Sublease Warehouse Space

Supply Chain Matters

The Bloomberg report, citing people familiar with the situation, that excess capacity includes warehouse properties in New York , New Jersey , Southern California and Atlanta. One source indicated to Bloomberg that a final estimate on excess square feet has not been reached and that the total figure remains in flux.

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IoT Speeds Over-the-Road Shipment Tracking

Talking Logistics

According to a 2017 Michigan State University Supply Chain Management study , “supply chain and product complexity possess a number of sources that vex supply chain operations…customer accommodation is the first,” including the demand for speed and visibility into shipments.

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The Real Winner at the 2022 World Cup? Supply Chain.

BlueYonder

million and a land area of nearly 4,500 square miles — about half the size of New Jersey — Qatar is about to become an epicenter of global logistics. To earn the win, companies also need rapid, accurate capabilities in inventory availability and commitment, as well as order promising. With a population of just 2.9

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Alexander Graham Bell and the Evolution of Communications

QAD

According to History.com , PBS , BBC and related sources, Alexander Graham Bell first embarked on his technology journey when he worked on his father’s “visible speech” system, which used symbols to represent speech sounds to teach deaf children. Inventory took time and physical resources and relied entirely on paper-based methods.