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Driver Shortage, Driverless Vehicles, and Other Supply Chain Curiosities

Logistics Viewpoints

Driver shortages have become even more of a reality in the supply chain industry for a number of reasons, chief among them being the sharp rise in demand. As driver pay increases, so does the incidence of drivers jumping ship, switching companies for the next best payday. Curiouser and Curiouser.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

The holdup makes it exceedingly difficult for businesses to manage supply chains, it said. Blue Yonder , a leading supply chain solutions provider, announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Doddle, a first and last mile technology business. Maersk joins FedEx Corp., Kodiak, Aurora Innovation Inc.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Danish manufacturer saw sales begin to surge as consumers gravitated towards their building sets, which come in a variety of shapes, sizes, difficulties, and characters. Now, it plans to separate its freight brokerage operation, which matches loads from shipping customers to available trucks, into a separate publicly traded company.

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech July 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , we provide highlights of two noteworthy supply chain management focused technology development efforts which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership.

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 1.14 - 1.18

Freight Plus

TMS technology. TMS. ,” says Bart De Muynck, Gartner’s research vice president, transportation technology to. In fact, in 2018 we saw investments go up across the entire supply chain technology spectrum.” Sensata Technologies of Attleboro, MA realized these cost avoidance savings to the tune of $2.2

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

In fact, America’s true refund pioneer was born a century before Hsieh, on a farm in Oklahoma. RETAILERS TRY TO KEEP UP Returns are expensive for sellers, since shipping alone often costs more than the items can be resold for. The winner paid $925, shipping not included. Workers sorted units by model and year of manufacture.

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Quality Improvement in Manufacturing: Relief for Operations Manager

ThroughPut

Most importantly for ThroughPut, manufacturing and logistics operations in the industrial world are about to pick back up until Christmas. We are privileged to be tackling problems from the biggest canals to supply chains that extend to Mars. Maybe that’s where technology disruption’s bottleneck currently lies.