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The Definitive Guide on Produce Season Transportation Impacts

Zipline Logistics

Produce season transportation can have an impact on your freight, even if you do not ship grains, fruits, or vegetables. Even if you don’t grow or ship produce, your transportation performance and spend can still be directly impacted. How Produce Season Transportation Affects Rates and Capacity – State by State.

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Outbound Tender Rejections Increase for the First Time Since March Peak

Zipline Logistics

Despite its small population, Delaware has a stay-at-home order in effect until May 15 or until the public health threat is eliminated. Shipping in or out of Georgia should not be an issue for vendors. Transportation could be impacted in Illinois. Shipping in and out of Indiana should not be interrupted for vendors.

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Jaro Caban: “Establishing S&OP is a challenging journey”

Supply Chain Movement

It’s hard to imagine that Cargill began as a grain storage warehouse in Iowa, USA, in 1865. Today it operates in 67 countries with 143,000 employees and has 76 business units on six platforms that cover animal feed, food production, energy and transportation, financial services and pharmaceuticals.

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What is Supply Chain Compliance and Why is it Important?

AB&R

What are your customer, partner, regulatory, and vendor expectations?”. A non-compliant barcode means your vendors or partners may refuse items that don’t meet their standards, resulting in chargebacks and hefty fines. When you hear the word compliance , what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Are you meeting those expectations?

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Freight Volume Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Zipline Logistics

As long as vendors have a two-to-three-day lead time on orders, they will have no issue covering them in most markets at cost. . Shippers should give ample lead time to reduce costs and ensure the order picks up on time. . A dditional lead time has been critical and will continue to be essential to reduce costs. .

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One Man’s Trash: How Blockchain Can Target Food Waste to Help End World Hunger

Material Handling & Logistics

For years, traditional supply chain operations have resulted in miscommunication between vendors, which causes food spoilage. It was not until extensive research was conducted by a single Australian retailer that the community discovered that bananas were being mishandled in transport. The Call for Asset Sharing.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

We have certainly seen a large number of companies looking to offset their greenhouse gas emissions and reduce their carbon footprints. Walmart opens online marketplace to non-US vendors. Starbucks also said it would cut water usage for green coffee 50 percent by 2030. Well, I just read about an Irish start-up that can help.