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Boot Barn Implements Intelligent Warehouse Automation and Control System

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The company also operates store support and distribution centers in California and Kansas. The Wichita, Kansas facility supports the company’s expanding e-commerce business. In 2017 Boot Barn installed the Körber Warehouse Management System (WMS) in its Wichita facility that spanned almost 100,000 square feet at that time.

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The Smart Warehousing Story with Carl Wasinger

The Logistics of Logistics

Carl graduated from Kansas State University with a business degree and a focus on Information Systems, as well as from Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute with a warehouse operations focus. He is a logistics management and operations veteran, actively leading the business to its next phase of growth.

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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

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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. As MIT professor Yossi Sheffi has argued , less inventory in the system makes a company more flexible, actually building resilience.

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Using AI to Gain a Competitive Advantage with Matt Parry & Kevin Coomes

The Logistics of Logistics

Kevin holds a bachelor’s degree in political science, with a concentration in Chinese, from Kansas State University. It is personalized to each company’s unique behavior and seamlessly integrated with existing systems and workflows. and Revenova, LLC. Greenscreens.ai Greenscreens.ai

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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

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Let’s say visibility allows you to locate some bolts on a truck in Kansas and learn they will be late because of a raw materials shortage delaying your supplier, because one of their suppliers went bankrupt. But the opposite is not true – if you optimize one link, you have not optimized the entire supply chain.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 14 – 20)

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Founded in 2018 by two naval technology experts, the company combines sensors with existing safety systems onboard to help improve the safety and navigation of ships on crowded waterways. The deal sets the lofty goal of deploying 12,000 of Wingcopter’s 198 drone systems over the course of the next 5 years.

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Hurricane Harvey - Effects, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

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Houston’s expansive sprawl lacks drainage systems and has ample bodies of water that are easily exacerbated by heavy rains. Rail freight networks operated by Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific in Texas, USA were heavily disrupted due to Hurricane Harvey, according to reports on Friday, August 25th.