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Supply Chain Sustainability Gathers Steam

Logistics Viewpoints

The global supply chain is routinely beset by challenges, both large and small, but the past couple of years have delivered a string of significant logistics disruptions that have threatened to upend the tightly choreographed dance of global freight transportation. More and more large U.S.

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Winter Storm Alert: Ice Storms in the Making Across the US

GlobalTranz

The National Weather Service in Memphis estimates areas eastern Arkansas and western Tennessee, along the I-40 corridor, may see ice accumulations up to 0.75 The impacts of this serve ice storm can last for days and will disrupt transportation in the region. Memphis, TN. CNN reports that an estimated 6.5 Source: NOAA.

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Supply chains on film

Supply Chain Movement

A growing number of scenes in films and television programmes – and even entire films and TV series – are about logistics and supply chain management, and media productions are going ever deeper into those business roles. This opening scene presents the supply chain, in this case of a bullet, very effectively.

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The Empty Container Marketplace with Sean Bardon

The Logistics of Logistics

Using Qualle’s technology, supply chains run more effectively, more efficiently, and less greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere. Shipping containers are the building blocks of the supply chain, yet we don’t do a great job managing those containers. Importers free up yard space and reduce their overall costs.

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The 5 Largest LTL Carriers

The Logistics of Logistics

FedEx Corporation is based in Memphis TN and has $42.7B Domestic Package, International Package, and Supply Chain and Freight. FedEx Freight is the largest less than truckload (LTL) carrier with approximately $5.3B in sales (estimated 2012). FedEx Freight has a market share of 14.9%. in revenues in 2012. had $54.1B

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Three Ways Center-of-Gravity Studies Lead You Astray

Logility

Inbound transportation will skew the optimum location in the direction of the suppliers. Granted, outbound transportation is costlier per mile than inbound, but inbound is still a determining factor in most cases. Example 3 : In this case, a set of customers in the Midwest are supplied by a plant out of Memphis.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 25-29, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Global Demand for Supply Chain Executives Drives Heidrick & Struggles To Tap Expert As Partner. Yes, there are many hurdles to overcome before drones as a transportation mode becomes a reality, including getting FAA approval. If successful, the program will expand next to Indianapolis, IN; Edison, NJ; and Memphis, TN.”.