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Logistics helps North Carolina Reach CNBC Best State Status Again

Kanban Logistics

That extends to logistics as NC has lower costs for industrial space, lower labor costs, and lower transportation costs (i.e., million square feet of warehouse space to support the distribution of products to manufacturers and retailers. Lower logistics costs: As noted by FORBES , North Carolina ranks #4 in the U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 22-26, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation. Here’s a video of the drone in action: This news follows last month’s announcement by UPS that it is collaborating with Matternet to deliver medical samples via unmanned drones at WakeMed’s flagship hospital and campus in the Raleigh, N.C. over distances of up to 12.5

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Webinar On Demand Archives - Tompkins International - Tompkins.

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Lean on 3PL Cross Dock Freight Solutions During Peak Season

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With traditional retail arrangements, your trucks pick up product from a warehouse and transport the product to a retailer DC at a designated appointment time. For example, Kanban Logistics offers North Carolina cross docking services at our warehouse campuses east of Raleigh. What are 3PL cross dock freight solutions?

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Reflections on the LIVING Supply Chain SCRC Meeting

NC State SCRC

The SCRC meeting featured a group of executives, students, and faculty participating at the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative meeting yesterday in Raleigh, held at the new Talley Student Center on the NC State campus. Go work in a warehouse in Odessa Texas (which is how I got started), and see how that asset is operating in the real world!

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SCRC Meeting – Tom Linton’s “Supply Chain Eight” and Golden Winged Warblers : Questions Every New CSCO Should Ask Their CEO

NC State SCRC

Co-location of supply chains will reduce disruptions, complications with transportations, government regulations, etc. The Pulse rooms are fed by data warehouses which pull together data from 94 different applications that are each being used to run data in different parts of the Flex organization. and will operate more efficiently.

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Advantages of Basing Your Distribution Center in North Carolina

Kanban Logistics

Whether a company requires inbound logistics services or more standard warehousing and distribution services, there are major advantages to basing distribution center operations in North Carolina. Quicker transportation times result in lower freight costs. FTZ warehouses exist in a unique state of limbo.