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Warehouse Labor Woes Are Worse than Ever

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Warehouse Labor Woes are Worse than Ever. Contract logistics – companies that provide warehousing services – certainly falls into that category. The Warehouse Labor Shortage. The warehouse and transportation industry had a record 490,000 openings in July. Eight percent of warehouses have a surge of over 100%.

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Marijuana Supply Chain: Profits and Headaches

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These states include Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Washington D.C. Jobs in retail, restaurants, trucking, and warehousing are particularly hard to fill.

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Yards Are Hard

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Managing yard and warehouse operations has long been one of the thornier aspects of transportation logistics. Yards are a choke point between transportation and warehousing — and wherever you have choke points, you have a higher risk of inefficiencies that drive up labor costs, detention fees and delivery commitments.

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The Retailer FabFitFun Excels at Logistics

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FabFitFun Warehouse in Chino, CA FabFitFun is an interesting retailer with a complex supply chain. To support these surges, the direct-to-consumer retailer built a 600,000-square-foot warehouse in Chino, California, in 2018. The Chino warehouse employs 200 full-time employees. The warehouse is very, very clean.

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Marijuana Supply Chain: Profits and Headaches

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These states include Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Washington D.C. Jobs in retail, restaurants, trucking, and warehousing are particularly hard to fill.

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Logistics Viewpoints (09/30/24 – 10/03/2024)

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Let’s hop into the supply chain news for the week: FERC has Approved California Independent Systems Operators Interconnection Reform Plan CAISO’s interconnection reforms aim to streamline California’s energy grid connection process, addressing a supply chain bottleneck in clean energy project development.

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Peet’s Coffee and the Roasted Bean Supply Chain

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Founded in Berkeley, California in 1966, Peet’s Coffee touts itself as the original craft coffee. All their coffee is produced in small batches and roasted at their own LEED Gold certified roasting plant in Almeda California. These DSD warehouses in turn receive less-than-truckload size shipments on at least a weekly basis.