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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

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Cooper includes southern New Jersey’s only Level I trauma center (Cooper University Hospital), which is the busiest trauma center in the Philadelphia region. If they were dependent, did they have East Coast distribution centers where they could preplace inventory before the strike occurred.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 23 – 29)

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The company said it has invested more in inventory planning and partnerships with suppliers so it has enough goods on hand while making sure it can route items to where they’re urgently needed. With its new team of robots and the advanced facility, both operated by GXO Logistics, Saks is aiming to keep up with surging online sales.

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Building Outside-in Processes: Answering A Question From the Audience

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week, I spoke at the CPHA supply chain conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was the inaugural supply chain event for the Consumer Healthcare Products Association. Checkout the presentation posted on slideshare. ). In my discussion, I used the chart in Figure 1. In all relationships, there are rocks in the river.