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Sears – Achieving Home Delivery Excellence

Talking Logistics

Batch and static planning systems fall short of meeting customer expectations. Christina Gross, Sacramento Routing Manager, then added: “Because we’re now working with a live, real-time system, we’re able to make adjustments and see those reflected in the routes right away. It was a one-time shot of getting the routes right.”

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Customer-Obsessed Businesses are Upping Their Last-Mile Game

Logistics Viewpoints

Last year, Raley’s converted its closed store in Sacramento, California to a dark store — an e-commerce fulfillment center to meet the spiraling pick and on-demand deliveries. Stop & Shop increased its pickup location in July to 50 last year to support its growing e-commerce business.

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Thanksgiving surge boosts reefer prices; van freight heads east

DAT Solutions

Rates seem to be waffling a bit as an increase in loads is meeting plentiful supply of equipment. Sacramento to Los Angeles gained 24¢ to $3.00/mile Sacramento to Portland, OR, dropped 19¢ to $3.08/mile, Most markets were in rough equilibrium last week. Buffalo registered the largest decline, and that was less than 2%.

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Ryder Places First Medium-Duty Electric Vehicle Order with Chanje Energy and Begins to Roll Out Charging Stations

Supply Chain Network

Ryder also plans to equip its maintenance facilities in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, and San Jose, Calif. The Chanje all-electric large delivery style van is equipped to haul up to 6,000 pounds and up to 580 cubic feet of cargo, all with zero vehicle exhaust emissions.

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Transportation Trends: What’s Ahead for Trucking with California’s Gig Economy Bill?

PINC

That’s because the bill requires certain industries to meet tough standards to classify a worker as a contractor (versus an employee). There are exemptions in AB-5 for some job classifications, including construction trucking, but that is a carve-out for Teamsters, Rajkovacz told the Sacramento Business Journal.

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Bouncing Back from a Career Low Point - Parker CMC Networking

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

  Here I was with my bachelors and masters degree from Stanford brushing a horse’s mane and shoveling manure in the 100+ degree Sacramento heat wondering where things had gone so wrong in my career search.    Until then, keep up with the informationals, meet regularly with the Parker advisors and try to enjoy all of this.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 18 – 24)

Logistics Viewpoints

It is also delivering Pepsi out of its Sacramento warehouse on 100-mile daily routes, going directly to stores, and making 300- to 400-mile runs to other warehouses. To start, Pepsi is using the trucks to deliver Frito-Lay products from its Modesto, California, facility up to 425 miles on a single charge.