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This Week in Logistics News (September 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

Costco has reintroduced purchase limits. The jets have primarily been used to move goods between Amazon warehouses across the country. As evidence mounts that consumers are once again starting to stockpile, likely a result of the variants that are spreading, Costco has reinstated purchase limits on some products.

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Say Customer Service and Mean It

Supply Chain Shaman

Many of my clients talk about a customer-centric supply chain but rely on useless metrics from an annual survey or a net promoter score. Historic processes are inside-out tightly integrated to orders and purchase orders. Additionally, the Company operates several warehousing and assembly locations to over 100 core markets.

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Ready For the Next Port Crisis?

Talking Logistics

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) reached a tentative new 5-year agreement late on Friday, so the West Coast ports resumed full operations this past weekend. But there’s little time to celebrate. If our ports aren’t open, we can’t trade. We cannot let this happen again.

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6 Manufacturing Trends You Need to Know

Arena Solutions

alone, colleges and universities awarded 83,263 bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2012, a 37% increase over the 60,605 degrees conferred in 2002. They are lightweight, flexible, and simple to integrate, making them perfect for use in warehouses with limited room. Breaking it down In the U.S. 3 What’s the allure?

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The worst Supply Chain practices must be confessed and not only by constraint

KEPLER Consulting

Non-updated product sheets in ERP (purchase price, MOQ, Incoterm,…) resulting in non-compliant supplier orders . The failure to review the distribution plan in the light of logistical and commercial constaints in the stores leads to the blind disposal of warehouse stocks. Some studies (Cachon and Fischer (2000); Lee et al.

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Is Warehouse Robotics at the Inflection Point?

Locus Robotics

Is deploying warehouse robotics to automate piece picking for fulfillment operations at an inflection point? Using warehouse robotics to improve today’s fulfillment industry is not at a simple inflection point. Bottom line, with the acquisition of Kiva and the deployment of warehouse robotics, Amazon created an “arms race.”

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Walmart and the Past, Present, and Future of RFID

AB&R

This announcement followed a successful trial run with an RFID system in 2002. The pandemic accelerated the Buy Online Pick Up in Store (BOPIS) model, which accounted for $72 billion in purchases in 2020, having greater inventory accuracy grew ever more important. However, Walmart would later drop the mandate.