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Ways to help manage the chemical supply in disruption.

o9 Solutions

The imbalance in logistics, the costs…the most important thing is to switch in the mindset…we need to reinvent ourselves to this new reality. . In Israel [an idea] we borrowed from the army is to validate quick decisions. You know, there’s no shortage of metrics and indicators out there.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well. Even Amazon used third-party logistics companies when the company first started, until reaching sufficient scale to have a logistics arm of its own.

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Q3 Economic Indicators and Statistics

American Global Logistics

Routine monitoring of key economic and logistics indicators works like a compass. With that follows our quarterly update on key strategic economic and logistics indicators. Supplementing that is the monthly Logistics Managers’ Index (LMI). This report has logistics-specific indicators critical to your business.

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Data is the New Gold

QAD

On January 28, 2021, the following headline appeared in the Washington Post : “Israel moves to head of vaccine queue, offering Pfizer access to country’s health-care database”. It will greatly help with decisions on when and where to invest in production capacity and logistics. Finding the Right Analytics Tools.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Many people get really confused about KPIs or Key Performance Indicators in Logistics and Supply Chain operations. Cost as a percentage of sales (Logistics or Supply Chain). Total logistics cost. A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. Supply Chain KPIs are Essential – The Right Ones! Gross profit.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Amazon has a long way to go, as the company says its operations emitted about 71 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2022, up by almost 40 percent since Jeff Bezos’s 2019 vow that his company would eventually stop contributing to the emissions warming the planet.