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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

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And now on to this week’s logistics news. The post This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29) appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints. Officials said the container ship was moving at a speed of 8 knots, or about 9 mph, when it struck the bridge. That’s all for this week.

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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

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But, more commonly there are downside surprises: customers lower the volume they want on an order, delay their order, there are manufacturing problems, logistics problems, staffing issues, to name the most obvious downside risks. The network supports downstream channel partners, upstream supply partners, and logistics partners.

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7 Ways to Strategically Elevate Freight Procurement

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Volatility in pricing trends are opportunities to lock in contractual rates, though shippers and logistics providers must also maintain flexibility to leverage spot buys as needed. Freeing procurement personnel from mundane, day-to-day activities lets them focus on developing strategic relationships with logistics partners.

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NRF 2024: Supply Chain Data

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Last week I attended the annual National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show in New York City. This year, nearly 40,000 attendees comprising 6,200 brands from all over the world headed to the Javits Center to see what new solutions and innovations software and hardware suppliers had in store for 2024 and beyond.

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Infor’s Strategy for Differentiation

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Infor held an Innovation Summit at their headquarters in New York City on March 18 th and 19 th. The software architecture allows the value to be measured and those metrics are visible to the customer and the Infor success team. We don’t care if they are solved with new technologies or old technologies.

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Takeaways from Roadnet perform 2014 User Conference

Talking Logistics

I’ve been using the word convergence to describe many of the trends occurring in the supply chain and logistics field today, and convergence was certainly evident at Roadnet’s perform 2014 User Conference a few weeks ago. FreshDirect , an online grocer serving the New York City metropolitan area, is a great example.

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Top Digital Supply Chain Cities in the U.S.

Material Handling & Logistics

Given that the study was funded by an Atlanta-based group, the results are hardly authoritative (for instance, a number of major cities, such as Boston, Charlotte, Denver, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, are not included in the study), but they do offer an interesting view on the supply chain capabilities of seven major regions.