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This Week in Logistics News (June 24 – 30)

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Less than two weeks after a tanker truck crash and fire destroyed an Interstate-95 bridge in northeast Philadelphia, the highway reopened to traffic on a temporary road surface June 23. small businesses, from bodegas to florists, to deliver its packages by the end of the year. Josh Shapiro (D) said.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

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Cooper includes southern New Jersey’s only Level I trauma center (Cooper University Hospital), which is the busiest trauma center in the Philadelphia region. Operating a smoothly running supply chain for a system with that number of sites is challenging.

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AUECO 2020

Descartes

AUECO 2020 The University of Pennsylvania invites you to participate in the “AUECO” 2020 Conference on the Impact of Export Controls on Higher Education and Scientific Institutions. Philadelphia, PA 19104). Please plan to join us in Philadelphia to learn, engage, and collaborate.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 10 – 16)

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The collapse of a section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia will cause “major disruption” in the region just as the summer travel season begins, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. A section of the highway, the longest north-south interstate on the East Coast, collapsed during a tanker-truck fire on Sunday.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 23 – 29)

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Seven months after launching its stand-alone e-commerce unit, Saks Fifth Avenue said it has started shipping online orders from a high-tech Pennsylvania warehouse, deploying dozens of autonomous robots programmed to help workers.

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Building Outside-in Processes: Answering A Question From the Audience

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week, I spoke at the CPHA supply chain conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was the inaugural supply chain event for the Consumer Healthcare Products Association. Checkout the presentation posted on slideshare. ). In my discussion, I used the chart in Figure 1.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 8 – 14)

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It met at Congress Hall in Philadelphia, PA and in Washington, DC from March 4, 1799, to March 4, 1801, during the last two years of John Adams’ presidency. What makes this Congressional recess importance is the fact that it was the last time the US capital was located in Philadelphia. And now on to this week’s logistics news.