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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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From Malls to Click-And-Collect: How Today’s Pace of Change Is Impacting Real Estate

Tompkins Blog

But can the pace of these changes affect the real estate industry in major ways? As rapid change takes place in online ordering and fulfillment for retail, consumer goods, distribution, and third-party logistics (3PLs), the needs for real estate space change too. You bet it can. Facts Behind Pace of Change.

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What is GMROI, and What Does it Mean for Your Retail Inventory?

ShipBob

That means you must see a sufficient return on your inventory investment. In other words, you need to make more money selling your inventory than you spent to acquire, store, and fulfill orders with it. In this post, we’ll cover what GMROI is and why it’s important for your retail inventory management.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

For those unaware of the term, shrink is an accounting term used to describe when a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded book inventory. The six areas are energy use, nature, waste, packaging, transportation, and product use and design. The nationwide vacancy rate for industrial real estate was 3.2

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Blockchain in Supply Chain: 2 Ethereum-Based Projects That Demonstrate How Blockchain Can Improve Supply Chains

GlobalTranz

An ecommerce fulfillment warehouse in the USA sends the wrong packages to customers. On top of all that, billions if not trillions of dollars worth of potential working capital are tied up in illiquid assets such as 90-day invoice payouts or even the real estate value of, say, a warehouse or factory building.

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What You Need to Know About the State of eCommerce Logistics

GlobalTranz

Consumers are expressing an unprecedented amount of power through eCommerce, and in fact, eCommerce logistics is growing increasingly reliant on small parcel and package delivery options daily. Today, eCommerce is the primary driver of small package logistics. More importantly, small packages make up $82.2

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Nearshoring and the new normal: why the evolving supply chain requires real-time data

crisp

During the pandemic, retailers employed some leniency but shelf space has always been valuable real estate and today, buyers need to make choices that place consistent and dependable suppliers at the forefront. Crisp supports suppliers in their planning process by offering highly granular, real-time data.