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Achieving Significant Transportation Savings through Improved Demand Forecasting

Logistics Viewpoints

When companies implement a demand management or replenishment system, the goal is usually to improve customer satisfaction while holding less inventory. Pinnacle Propane is based out of Irving, Texas. Pinnacle Propane was founded in 2010 through the acquisition of several retail propane companies in Central, South and West Texas.

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The Mary Kay Supply Chain with Michael Ringsdorf

The Logistics of Logistics

Michael is the Vice President Transportation & Logistics at Mary Kay , one of the most enduring, successful direct sellers of personal beauty products in the world for more than 55 years. Mike Ringsdorf is the Vice President Transportation & Logistics at Mary Kay Global, a cosmetics company based in Texas. Mary Kay Inc.

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Top 5 Ways Inventory Tracking Technology Is Evolving

GlobalTranz

Inventory tracking is among the top areas most impacted by omnichannel supply chain strategies, and consumer spending habits are forcing inventory tracking technology to evolve, making sure consumers can get the products they want, through the media and channels they want, and at the prices they want.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended the installation of such technologies in all new passenger vehicles. Retailers are reviving an old playbook to manage their inventory levels after four years of struggling to find the sweet spot of holding enough merchandise but not too much.

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The Time for Inventory Management Automation is Now

QAD

Transportation, scheduling and on-time delivery are important for any manufacturer and inventory manager to keep manufacturing and supply chain businesses running smoothly. A man checked his watch to confirm what he had expected, he needed to leave his office in Michigan to catch his flight to Texas.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

Wing already handles drone deliveries at Walmart Supercenters in Frisco, Texas, and the Dallas area. DHL Group does not operate ships but it uses them to transport containers. Truck transportation jobs continued a slow recovery from the depths of the freight recession and the job losses created when Yellow Corp.

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National Logistics Day 2023

Enterra Insights

The staff at the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) note, however, that the logistics industry plays an “out-sized — and often underappreciated — role … within the greater transportation ecosystem.”[1] By 1956, the first container ship sailed from the port of New Jersey to Texas.