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Ferguson’s Commitment to Supply Chain Excellence Drives Customer Satisfaction

Logistics Viewpoints

The goods flow through 3 import centers, 14 strategically located distribution centers in North America, 106 final-mile shipping hubs, and nearly 1,700 branch locations. A market distribution center has the capability of both regional distribution center and that of a final mile ship hub. Across the US, Ferguson has 6.5

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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Invest in building and refining modeling capabilities for requisite flows for ship building, aircraft refurbishment and armaments.

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COP21 – Freight and Climate Change

Freightos

This Black Friday Shawn Simms was first in line at Best Buy in Nashville, TN to bag a Thanksgiving bargain – a Toshiba HDTV for $149.99. COP21, the Paris Climate change conference taking place this week got us thinking what the carbon cost was for shipping the TV. kg of carbon emissions. It’s not just trucks.

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Launching a Successful 3PL in the Age of Tech with Nicholas Reasoner and Jeff Dangelo

The Logistics of Logistics

Nick has significant experience and expertise in transportation and logistics especially truckload shipping. Transloop’s mission is to be a true partner for the road ahead, and their battle-tested team has experience working with companies of all sizes, from small shippers moving one load a day to Fortune 500 brands shipping thousands.

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Stord Acquires ProPack, Nutrition and Supplement Fulfillment Leader with Temperature-Controlled Warehouses across North America

Stord

With over 30 years of experience, ProPack has established itself as a trusted partner for world-class multichannel fulfillment, last-mile shipping, and value-added and reverse logistics services. In total, Stord now operates 1.6MM square feet of fulfillment centers across ten markets, shipping over 25MM DTC and B2B orders annually. "We

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This Week in Logistics News (April 25-29, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Free’ Shipping Crowds Out Small Retailers (WSJ – sub. Simply put, Descartes is starting to focus on helping companies (especially small and mid-sized businesses) better integrate and automate their e-commerce, warehouse management and shipping processes. Google, Ford, Uber launch coalition to further self-driving cars (Reuters).

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Stord Expands Global Capabilities with European Fulfillment Operations

Stord

Stord Europe is complemented by Stord’s already robust North American presence of first-party fulfillment centers in Seattle, WA; Salt Lake City, UT; Nashville, TN; Vancouver, BC; Mississauga, ON; Atlanta , GA; North Haven, CT; Dallas , TX; Reno, NV; and Las Vegas, NV; as well as its network of strategic partner facilities.