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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

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Significant product enhancements include new environmental, social, and governance (ESG) features to allow planners to make emissions-informed decisions at the time of booking transportation, and a voucher payment process to compensate truckers for container moves in countries where the traditional prepaid model is not permitted by law.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

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The prescriptions are offered via Amazon’s online pharmacy service, which launched in 2020. Amazon Pharmacy, born out of the company’s 2018 acquisition of online pharmacy PillPack, allows customers to order prescription medications for home delivery, with free shipping for Prime members.

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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. This in turn rests on developing solutions far more industry-focused than their competitors.

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NRF 2024: Supply Chain Data

Logistics Viewpoints

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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Takeaways from Roadnet perform 2014 User Conference

Talking Logistics

Mobilecast On Track , “a low cost, durable, phone-based solution designed specifically to help track your mobile resources and provide metrics for management.”. FreshDirect , an online grocer serving the New York City metropolitan area, is a great example. The company offers next-day delivery of groceries.

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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.

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7 Ways to Strategically Elevate Freight Procurement

Talking Logistics

For instance, rather than bid on two separate lanes from Chicago to New York City and Chicago to Boston, a carrier might suggest bidding on a consolidated lane from Chicago to an intermediate pooling point in and split the shipments to the final destinations. Adopt performance metrics for carriers.