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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. Zachary said.

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Road Report: 2018 OPEX Oil and Gas Summit

TrackVia

I had another conversation about manual processes with an executive at a petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company headquartered in Oklahoma City. The steering team is focused on digitizating operations, maintenance planning, scheduling, inventory management, asset integrity, and change management.

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Trends 2019: Food

Enterra Insights

Researchers from Oklahoma State University’s Robert M. ”[7] When presented with the idea, “only 27% … reported they would purchase cultured meat.” They can be augmented with additional data and insights to improve forecasting, enhance target marketing and better align inventories to demand.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 17-21, 2018)

Talking Logistics

This time I’ll be returning from enVista’s FUEL 2018 conference where I am giving a keynote presentation this morning on Defining Your Own Logistics Competitive Weapon. Oklahoma grocers set to deploy fleet of autonomous vans for final-mile deliveries (CCJ). Stay tuned for my takeaways from the conference in a future post.

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Perspectives on the Global Trade Environment: A Panel Discussion

NC State SCRC

Bill H: “We have two trade zones in Oklahoma and Houston, and are under construction to produce one in Corpus Christi. Our negotiation strategy is to reduce the impact on the end customer by carefully understanding the components of cost, timing of inventory already produced and potentially a shared role in the cost. I don’t think so.

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