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Walgreens’ Digital Commerce Evolution: Microservices to the Rescue

Logistics Viewpoints

This is a large public company with 8,900 stores in the US, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands. Secondly, inventory accuracy at stores is never as accurate as inventory accuracy at warehouses. The post Walgreens’ Digital Commerce Evolution: Microservices to the Rescue appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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The Biggest Supply Chain Blunders of 2017

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Indeed, 2017 was plagued by problems within international supply chains, ranging from logistical to unethical. Puerto Rico Aid. One of the year's most devastating failures in supply chain planning happened in Puerto Rico after catastrophic Hurricane Maria. Talk about a bottleneck. Apple's iPhone X.

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Types of Risks Impacting Supply Chains in 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

To look at what risks will affect the supply chain in 2018, Rob Savitsky of AIR Worldwide ( a member of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Supply Chain Exchange program), wrote a blog for MIT discussing three broad categories of supply chain risk. Natural Catastrophes.

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The Cost of Disaster

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million residents in Puerto Rico for more than three months, cost $90 billion, while Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic hurricane in recorded history, left 97 people dead and recorded losses of $50 billion. Rallying the Logistics Community. Hurricane Maria, which knocked out all power supply for 3.4

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Patient-centric networks at the heart of pharmaceutical supply chain management: Lessons from LogiPharma Europe 2018

Kinaxis

Philippe Hemard, former VP of Logistics Europe for Amazon, discussed what pharma companies need to learn from Amazon: As life expectancy grows, there will be more patients with mobility issues. Orchard also discussed a pilot that leverages drones for inventory cycle counting in warehouses.

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Hurricane Florence: What We Know About the Year's First Major Storm

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The storm is expected to reach Puerto Rico on Friday morning with winds up to 73 mph. Storm surges make headlines, but they are just the beginning of potentially weeks of compromised delivery routes and warehouse operations. Get support from the logistics community.

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Hurricane Florence: What You Need to Know About the Year's First Major Storm

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The storm is expected to reach Puerto Rico on Friday morning with winds up to 73 mph. Storm surges make headlines, but they are just the beginning of potentially weeks of compromised delivery routes and warehouse operations. Get support from the logistics community.