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Editor’s Choice: 4 Factors to Determine if Self-Distribution is a Viable Alternative for your Health System

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The challenges brought about by the pandemic made many rethink strategy when it came to inventory, stock on hand, secondary options and the ability to guarantee supply and resiliency. Their main reasoning was to contain supply chain costs, reduce the amount of space used for inventory at hospitals and ultimately help provide better care.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 21 – 27)

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Amazon Aims to Sublet, End Warehouse Leases as Online Sales Cool. Once a customer places an order, the item is fulfilled from the store, packaged, loaded into the drone and delivered right to their yard using a cable that gently lowers the package. Walmart and Symbotic Expand Partnership to Deploy Automation System.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 24 – 30)

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Warehouses Need Workers and are Stealing them from Other Sectors. Will that make it harder for companies to hire warehouse and factory workers? Newmark, the large commercial real estate firm, put out a report on warehouse labor in the US. Her name will live on in the sport’s history!

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

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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. Small businesses getting squeezed out in push for warehouse space. The six areas are energy use, nature, waste, packaging, transportation, and product use and design.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 4 – 10)

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Warehouse break-ins, accounting scams, and oil tampering are on the rise in the olive growing regions of Greece, Spain, and Italy. This oil was stolen in a series of warehouse break-ins. It adjusted the flow of packages earlier this year via machine learning in response to shrinking demand. billion as U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 30 – October 6)

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Under the service, called Return a Package, an Uber driver will pick up sealed and prepaid packages at a customer location and drop them off at a local post office or FedEx Corp. Uber charges a $5 flat fee for up to five packages tendered at a time or a $3 fee for Uber One members. or UPS Inc. or UPS Inc.

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

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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.