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Situational needs like these often guide short-term freight decisions, and over time, those choices can influence broader sourcing and shipping strategies, too. Increasingly, companies are weighing transportation efficiency as a factor in where and how they source. For instance, if a regional supplier in the southeastern U.S.
The warehouse, meanwhile, has been elevated from afterthought to a central player, as new demands and responsibilities are placed on supply chains — from small-batch wave picking and reverselogistics to deeper supplier collaboration, and tariff and sustainability compliance. Just be prepared for anything and keep going.
Bowman, SupplyChainBrain The science of forensic chemistry, familiar to millions of viewers of crime dramas on TV and film, is playing a key role today in tracing the source of products all the way back to their origin. Ethical sourcing science can be applied in so many different ways,” she adds. Or so they say, when asked in surveys.)
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Look for solutions with ergonomic workstations that use images, lights and clear visual cues instead of audio prompts, which can get lost in a noisy warehouse or confuse a multilingual workforce. A user-friendly system will be intuitive, ergonomic and language-independent — making it easy to onboard new workers fast.
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