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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

Logistics Viewpoints

She considered where she could get more, factoring in that it was Saturday night at 10:00 pm, she lived alone in Kansas City, and she’d be driving by herself. Ione resolved on the spot to quit and never smoked again, illustrating it is never too late to change. A change to one link (e.g. on-time delivery). A change to one link (e.g.

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

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294 manufacturing facilities produced more than 90 million metric tons of food and beverage in 2021. Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions from purchased energy. They have asked they value chain partners to take four actions: Report their scope 1 and 2 emissions by the end of 2022. PepsiCo’s Internal Supply Chain.

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The Backorder, March 20 2024

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Learn more in the latest Manufacturing Health Index report. This will help you slash your inventory and storage costs in one fell swoop. A quick fix when funds are low is to lease instead of purchase for large investments that would otherwise decimate your cash reserves. Lease big ticket items. Always full of perspective.”

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

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Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. to get online orders to doors quicker and at a lower cost.

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Intermodal Performance in March 2021

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March 2021 - Transportation Market Report. The big news coming out of intermodal in March was the acquisition of Kansas City Southern by Canadian Pacific. The purchase is one of the first-class one railroad acquisitions in quite a while. Click the Button above to receive the full transportation market report for March 2021.

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Trends 2019: Food

Enterra Insights

Kerr Food and Agricultural Products Center (FAPC) predict, “From tried-and-true barbecue sauces and flavorful potato recipes with a twist, food developers are becoming inspired by Kansas City barbecue, Southern Appalachian pimento cheese, Made in Oklahoma salsas and other areas from sea to shining sea. ”[2]. ”[4]. .

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Tomorrow’s Workforce must Embrace Training and Re-skilling

Enterra Insights

Shelly Hagan ( @shellykhagan ) reports, “Men in their prime working years have left the labor force at an astonishing rate and they may never return if the state of the U.S. Some prime age workers, feeling they have no place in this new technology-based world, have simply dropped out of the workforce. job market holds.”[1]