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This Week in Logistics News (October 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

I keep reading reports that companies such as Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy are planning to kick off massive holiday deals in late October / early November. According to a report by Adobe Analytics, tech gadgets to sporting goods will see “massive” online discounts, with the best bargains likely in late November.

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Tale as Old as Time: Logistics Innovation Vs. Tried-and-True Strategy

Intelligent Audit

FreightWaves reports, “ The catalyst is Amazon Logistics, the company’s delivery arm, expanding its operations amid a slowdown in e-commerce volumes that has left it with excess capacity. Logistics Management reports, “L abor availability, going back to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic more than 2.5 Establishes New Frontier.

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Southwest Airlines’ Flight Path to Carbon Neutrality

Logistics Viewpoints

Southwest has signed an agreement with Velocys to purchase 219 million gallons of SAF at a fixed price, over a fifteen-year term. Velocys is building a new biorefinery in Mississippi that is scheduled to begin commercial delivery of fuel in 2026. Southwest is exploring different partnerships.

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Bio-based Products Future is Promising, but Hurdles Exist

Supply Chain View from the Field

Effectively, there is no database that permits reliable reporting on the volume of biobased products sold in the US or exported for global consumers. One of the big insights from the analysis in our report is that the biobased economy is emerging in states all over the country. Annual reporting.

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Who’s Catching the Holiday Shopping Fever?

Enterra Insights

Lisa Rowan reports, “The National Retail Federation expects holiday retail sales to total between $727.9 behind Hawaii, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alaska. Usually, these purchases are impulse buys, which is why they’re in a category of their own. billion and $730.7 billion this year. of West Virginians live in poverty.

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Trends 2023: Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Freelance writers Michael Keenan and Kaleigh Moore report, “Data from the University of Texas–Austin suggests a simple improvement in ‘data usability’ can give some companies a 10% increase in revenue. the Mississippi River is seeing falling water levels, which has resulted in a log-jam of over 100 vessels.