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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. Background The Council of Supply Chain Resilience met for the first time this month. What is supply chain resilience? The reason?

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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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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. Nick left TQL to join FourKites, a real-time visibility platform for supply chain logistics companies. Transloop has locations in Chicago, IL, and Nashville, TN. About Jeff Dangelo, Co-Founder of Turvo.

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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. How Forwarders Are Reducing Emissions.

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

After the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , I took the time to recharge and took a month off from writing. The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain Insights You Tube Channel. The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence.

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

Talking Logistics

Lots of supply chain and logistics news to get to this week, especially on the the technology front, so let’s go straight to it. JDA Empowers Customers to Transform their Supply Chains with New End-to-End Capabilities. Free’ Shipping Crowds Out Small Retailers (WSJ – sub. Descartes Acquires pixi.

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146 days until Christmas - Are you ready?

Cathy Roberson

Thanks for reading Rethinking supply chains! Retailers with store-front will push this option and curbside pickups to offset high shipping costs. A Digital 360 2021 survey found that 45% of consumers opt for BOPIS because they do not want to pay for shipping. Thanks for reading Rethinking supply chains!