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Delivering the Drinks: Streamlining Beverage Transportation with Kristina Bernarducci

The Logistics of Logistics

Kristina Bernarducci and Joe Lynch discuss delivering the drinks: streamlining beverage transportation. Offers national pallet management services, acting as a single source for pallet supply, retrieval, and tracking. Its primary activity is distributing Veterans wreaths for placement on graves in military cemeteries.

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Taking the “Ouch” Out of Transportation Costs

Talking Logistics

And this global trip isn’t just for sightseeing – leading companies find that a diversified sourcing base and far-flung manufacturing can help cut production costs, increasing the bottom line. However, the biggest pain point for these global supply chains is the one that seems inescapable – transportation costs.

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COVID Has Fundamentally Changed the Profession of Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

This advanced visibility can allow them to move to lock up the items in short supply, or the needed transport, faster than their competitors. And many are adding supplier risk management duties to the sourcing tasks performed by their procurement managers. They are also reducing their debt levels and sitting on more cash.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

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Ukraine does not have the military might to stop the invasion. But in terms of transportation, the impacts won’t just be on fuel prices. FourKites , a provider of real-time transportation visibility solutions, has a big data set around transportation. The Nord Stream Pipeline. Map of Natural Gas Pipelines into Europe.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 5 – 11)

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” The military branch therefore plans to examine how to use the largest available commercial rockets to ship dozens of tons of supplies around the world, especially to remote areas. For one large supermarket chain, the idea of jumping on the buy and source locally trend makes too much sense.

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Transportation Network Modeling: A Powerful Tool in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Strategy

Talking Logistics

Outside of the Paris Agreement, the European Union (EU) has a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transport by around 60 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Cost reductions sometimes go hand-in-hand with GHG reductions, but some measures could increase transport costs. Corporate Responsibility.

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IoT Speeds Over-the-Road Shipment Tracking

Talking Logistics

According to a 2017 Michigan State University Supply Chain Management study , “supply chain and product complexity possess a number of sources that vex supply chain operations…customer accommodation is the first,” including the demand for speed and visibility into shipments.