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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

P&G uses life cycle assessment for sustainable packaging design. Consumers are increasingly demanding greater transparency and sustainability from the companies they buy from, especially when it comes to the household products they use every day and how they’re packaged. Amazon’s electric delivery vehicles from Rivian rolls out.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

For routes previously served by sedans, SUVs and minivans can deliver more than double the number of packages while the company’s “high-capacity vans” are able to service nearly five times as many packages, Mulligan said. Target has been testing high-capacity van routes at Dallas and Minneapolis sortation centers.

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Trends 2022: Retail

Enterra Insights

” Philippe Loeb, Dassault Systèmes’ Vice President for the Home & Lifestyle, Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail industries, notes, “The demand for e-commerce has risen dramatically stretching global supply chains with disruptions leading to product shortages.”[6] In 2019, online sales accounted for just 14.6

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Crime is Adding to Supply Chain Woes

Enterra Insights

Journalist Zusha Elinson ( @ZushaElinson ) explains, “A recent rash of thefts by fast-moving mobs at stores in the Bay Area and outside Minneapolis were organized on social media and committed by people who often didn’t know one another, according to law-enforcement officials investigating the incidents. ” Concluding Thoughts.

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The Great Store Redo

Cathy Roberson

In four of its Minneapolis test stores, Best Buy reduced the shoppable square footage to 15,000 square feet to provide more space for fulfillment. It is remodeling 13 stores to deliver an even greater portion of the volume, reducing the sales floor square footage, and installing warehouse-grade packaging station equipment and supplies.

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Meet our Spring additions

Alloy

Prior to joining Alloy, Tom spent nearly 7 years with Anaplan, strategically engaging within the Consumer Packaged Goods space to connect planning across Supply Chain, Sales, & Finance for Anaplan’s largest strategic global accounts in the North Central region. He lives in Minneapolis, MN, where he was born and raised.

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CatMan 2.0…Now What?

BlueYonder

Last summer, in collaboration with JDA and many key industry leaders in both retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG), the Category Management Association (CMA) launched CatMan 2.0 Delivery Tour on February 8, 2017 at the CMA’s office in Minneapolis. in the age of the “always-on customer.” We’d love to see you there.