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World’s Fifth Fastest Growing Retailer Automates Replenishment Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

A101 is the largest retailer in Turkey with over 10,000 company owned stores and 48 regional distribution centers and one E-commerce fulfillment center. The typical store holds more than 1,500 stock keeping units (SKUs) – an SKU is a distinct product/packaging configuration. Big suppliers can deliver to an A101 warehouse every day.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

Coke announces industry-leading target for reusable packaging. Design: make all primary consumer packaging recyclable by 2025 and use 50 percent recycled material in our packaging by 2030. New wave of contracts will lock in much higher shipping rates. Bridge linking US and Canada reopens after police remove last protesters.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

USPS slowing first-class package delivery to lower costs. The United States Postal Service will slow delivery times for a third of its first-class packages in an effort to cut costs and its dependency on air transportation amid financial struggles. Apple, others face shipment delays as China Covid curbs squeeze suppliers.

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Friday in 5: Selling The Empty Space Inside Retailers’ Packages

BlueYonder

This week: Retailers are learning to monetize the empty space inside packages; billions of pounds of meat are piling up in U.S. cold-storage warehouses; RadioShack returns with a new store-in-a-store format; UPS grows on the back of e-commerce demand; and MIT researchers explore critical hurricane-related supply chains. billion pounds.

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Friday in 5: Selling The Empty Space Inside Retailers’ Packages

BlueYonder

This week: Retailers are learning to monetize the empty space inside packages; billions of pounds of meat are piling up in U.S. cold-storage warehouses; RadioShack returns with a new store-in-a-store format; UPS grows on the back of e-commerce demand; and MIT researchers explore critical hurricane-related supply chains. billion pounds.

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People and Halal Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This has implications for raw materials, ingredients, primary packaging, intermediate goods as well as end-product goods flows. This new standard has three modules: transportation, warehousing, and retailing.

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The Supply Chain is Suffering Labor Pains

Enterra Insights

Bowman laments, “Multiple stages of the global supply chain, including manufacturing, distribution, warehousing and trucking, are suffering from a severe shortage of qualified workers.” But the labor shortage is especially acute for physical jobs such as driving, the production line and warehouse work.