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This Week in Logistics News (March 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon , which has struggled to streamline its grocery strategy, is looking at grocery-picking gig workers in a new way. Now, it plans to separate its freight brokerage operation, which matches loads from shipping customers to available trucks, into a separate publicly traded company.

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COVID Variant Surges and Labor Shortage Lead to FedEx Freight Suspension, Heighten Need for Freight Bill Auditing Services

Intelligent Audit

As the shipping industry grapples with the changes when shipping with USPS and more UPS fees , there’s another problem coming to light. This will occur across all shipping service levels, putting added pressure to establish new carrier relationships. Stringing together new strategies to leverage zone-skipping. 29 and Jan.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 15-19, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Outlines New Developments in Omnichannel Strategy and Technology. FedEx to Increase Shipping Rates. I haven’t been briefed on the solution, but assuming Sanish and the Ariba team are playing a lead role in strategy and product development, this is a big step in the right direction for SAP. Macy’s, Inc.

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20 warehouse professionals and business leaders reveal the single most important first step when designing a warehouse layout

6 River Systems

For instance, conveyor systems are bulky and fixed in place, so warehouses with conveyor systems often must design the warehouse layout around this infrastructure while allocating adequate space for other warehouse functions, such as sortation and packaging and shipping. Plan for the flow from production to packaging to shipping.