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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. In 1902 he moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming, in order to become a one-third owner of a general store called Golden Rule.

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Crime is Adding to Supply Chain Woes

Enterra Insights

1 as it passed through Wyoming. ” Ziobro and Lovett report that criminals specifically look for boxcars loaded with packages from Amazon, FedEx, and United Parcel Service. .: “ Train robberies date to the dawn of railroads, and Union Pacific has had its share of famous heists. A posse was sent out in pursuit of the bandits.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news: McDonald’s is testing a new drive-thru concept. Same-day delivery is not currently available in Alaska, Colorado, Iowa, Maine, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming, and delivery of orders containing alcohol is currently limited to select stores in Illinois and Florida.

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What’s the Hold-up with COVID Vaccinations? Don’t Hold Your Breath…a 2021 Prediction

NC State SCRC

But then you have this huge gap in the center of the country – the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, parts of West Texas – where there isn’t a lot of cold storage capacity. Using data from the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation, we identified what the public refrigerated warehouse map actually looks like. The bottom line?