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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Last night, I took my 13-year-old son to see the movie Air, which tells the story of how Nike pursued basketball rookie Michael Jordan in 1984 to sign with the company. That move, and Michael Jordan’s incredible talent and business acumen, has turned the Jordan brand into a multi-billion-dollar business.

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Supply chain & logistics webinar

Proxima

Building a Modern Playbook for Supply Chain and Logistics Stardom. The next 12 months provide an opportunity for businesses to develop products and a commercial strategy that takes returns into account – acknowledging that 20%-30% of products will be returned. What is the right strategy? Warehousing pressures.

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Industrial IoT: Supporters and Skeptics

Enterra Insights

Jordan Appleson ( @jordanisonfire ), CEO at Hark, explains, “A subset of IoT is the Industrial Internet of Things which refers to creating interconnections between industrial equipment, facilities, personnel and processes. Better insights. ” That’s exactly why the IIoT is here to stay despite some current skepticism.

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5 Reasons Why You Need a TMS to Build a Resilient Supply Chain

TMC

Then a global transportation management system (TMS) should be a key part of your supply chain technology strategy. TMS technology—arguably one of the most important logistics management tools available to companies—can make a major contribution toward creating and enabling a responsive, adaptable, and intelligent global supply chain.

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5 Reasons Why You Need a TMS to Build a Resilient Supply Chain

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Then a global transportation management system (TMS) should be a key part of your supply chain technology strategy. TMS technology—arguably one of the most important logistics management tools available to companies—can make a major contribution toward creating and enabling a responsive, adaptable, and intelligent global supply chain.

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How E-Commerce Is Reinventing the Humble Warehouse

MIT Supply Chain

This is one of many fulfillment strategies retailers are adopting to ride the e-commerce wave. This is one of the concepts we have modeled at the MIT Megacity Logistics Lab. Logistics startups such as Ohi are repurposing vacant urban real estate. Adapting existing stores to function as warehouses is another example.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

As outlined in an article in The Maritime Executive , it: … dramatically reduced the cost of loading and unloading a ship. per ton; the standardized container cut that cost to just 16 cents a ton … The U.S. Gravity regularly uses the data of third-party logistics (3PLs) providers.