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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the wheelchair division, Marcel Hug of Switzerland won the men’s race at 1:17:06 and Susannah Scaroni of the US won the women’s race with a time of 1:41:45. With increased emphasis on sustainability, I am often asked about sustainability “levers” that can be pulled in warehousing and fulfillment.

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What Supply Chains Can Learn From Switzerland

RFgen

Discover why Switzerland came out on top in the FM Global Resilience Index. In supply chain management, all eyes are on Switzerland. Supply chains also face potential for cybercrime, insurance cost spikes, food contamination or systemic vulnerabilities. Of the 130 countries reviewed by FM Global, Switzerland took the No.

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What Supply Chains Can Learn From Switzerland

RFgen

Discover why Switzerland came out on top in the FM Global Resilience Index. In supply chain management, all eyes are on Switzerland. Supply chains also face potential for cybercrime, insurance cost spikes, food contamination or systemic vulnerabilities. Of the 130 countries reviewed by FM Global, Switzerland took the No.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

Those goods flowed through three regional hubs – in Singapore, Panama City, Panama and Stabio, Switzerland – to 49 distribution centers, 24 of which VF operates. To improve efficiency, they have begun to install warehouse robots from Locus robotics in North America and Europe. Building highly automated warehouses takes time.

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Innovation in the Supply Chain’s Last Mile

Enterra Insights

.”[1] For all practical purposes, the last mile begins when products arrive at the warehouse, which has sparked great interest warehouse space. … An increase in online shopping has furthered the trend, creating greater demand for warehouses to hold ordered items. As Robert J. Footnotes. [1]

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Innovation in the Supply Chain’s Last Mile

Enterra Insights

.”[1] For all practical purposes, the last mile begins when products arrive at the warehouse, which has sparked great interest warehouse space. … An increase in online shopping has furthered the trend, creating greater demand for warehouses to hold ordered items. As Robert J. Footnotes. [1]

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The Current WMS Market Gets More Focus by Supply Chain Execs: Here’s Why

GlobalTranz

The current warehouse management system ( WMS ) market is expanding at an amazing rate, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.2 According to Warehouse Logistics , there are more than 170 vendors located in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Today, the market statistics are almost impossible to identify.