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Casey’s General Stores Supply Chain Team Contributes to Strong Financial Results

Logistics Viewpoints

Headquartered in Ankeny, Iowa, the retailer has over 37,000 employees. The retailer offers self-service gasoline, a wide selection of grocery items, and an array of freshly prepared food items – most notably pizza. As such, Casey’s provides a service generally not otherwise available in these communities.

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Mastering Menards Delivery through Retail Specialized Logistics

Zipline Logistics

Delivering to Menards can be a challenge for brands that do not have an efficiently optimized logistics function or extensive experience working with the retailer. The retailer is headquartered in Eau Claire, WI, and has stores primarily throughout the Upper Midwest but has recently begun to expand into the lower states in the region.

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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Logistics Viewpoints

PepsiCo generated $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, with 23 food and beverage brands that generate more than $1 billion each in retail sales. This ensures the right quantity and assortment of products reaches their retail customers in a more efficient manner. These are hyperlocal organizations like Practical Farmers of Iowa.

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Transportation vs Logistics with Marty Wadle

The Logistics of Logistics

Marty earned a Bachelor degree in Transportation and Logistics from the College of Business at Iowa State University. These firms facilitate the movement of parts and materials from suppliers to manufacturers, and finished products from manufacturers to distributors and retailers.”. About Ruan Transportation.

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Halloween Candy – A Scary Supply Chain Planning Problem

Logility

In the interactive “ Top Halloween Candy by State ” map, CandyStore.com shows my beloved candy corn is the favorite candy for trick-or-treaters in Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Iowa, Michigan and Alabama. According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), American’s will also spend another $3.2B Reese’s Cups. Candy Corn. Hot Tamales.

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Give Your Sweetheart Something Expensive This Valentine’s Day: Eggs

Enterra Insights

More than 43 million of the 58 million birds slaughtered over the past year to control the virus have been egg-laying chickens, including some farms with more than a million birds apiece in major egg-producing states like Iowa.” ” • Inflation. staff notes, “A substantial factor impacting egg prices is inflation.

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Explaining the Bottleneck: The Champagne Shortage of 2021

o9 Solutions

’ While this phrase may engender an image of a harried servant in Versailles sprinting through the gold-embellished halls on a life or death search for the last drop of bubbly to satiate a party of raucous ancien régime nobles, it’s actually the current rallying cry of beverage retailers across the world.