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The Ukraine Logistics Coalition with Ben Gordon

The Logistics of Logistics

We need to work together to get major supply chain companies to donate the desperately needed trucks, planes and warehouses. Transportation/logistics companies who can commit air, ground, and warehousing capacity. Trucking from Europe to the Ukraine border – particularly from Poland, Romania, and Hungary. This includes.

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Ease the Burden of Labor Shortages and Increase Supply Chain Resiliency 

Logility

The labor supply is shrinking in Germany, Poland, Russia, and Japan, and contraction is expected to quicken. These include transportation and material moving, warehouse and fulfillment center workers , truck drivers, call center agents, delivery services, and manufacturing workers. It’s a global problem. million to 75.3

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

Small businesses getting squeezed out in push for warehouse space. Walmart began working with Alert in 2016 and launched a test of the autonomous cart-based system in a 20,000-square-foot warehouse connected to a supercenter in Salem, New Hampshire, in 2019. Walmart in the news: Walmart, suppliers continue sustainability collaboration.

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NFTs & Supply Chain: What Are The Applications?

SCMDOJO

If the razors are manufactured in Poland (one of the factories of P&G) , then these scannable codes (cryptographic implementation) will depict who was the raw material supplier, the pallet size, shelf-life, who were the trucking companies involved, financials, facilities involved, and stakeholders, to Walmart, who is the ultimate retailer.

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Highlights From Blue Yonder’s Global Week of Giving 2023

BlueYonder

Ramona Pricop, Warsaw, Poland “After a few tough days on the field, I’m happy to have contributed my volunteer days to a local community-supported ecological agriculture farm! We learnt about the warehouse and found out that one of our customers has volunteered there and spoke to Foodbank on how they could improve their warehouse.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

Full-to-bursting warehouses means fewer orders for manufacturers, which translates into lower levels of business activity and, ultimately, weaker growth. Grupa Żywiec – the Poland-based brewer in which Heineken holds a majority stake – was second on the list. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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5 Industry Trends for Logistics Service Providers to Watch

BlueYonder

companies are moving production from China to Mexico, while European companies are shifting from Asia to countries like Poland and Romania. Amazon’s fulfillment division, for instance, deployed over 750,000 robots in its warehouses by the end of 2023 and more than doubled its robot workforce since 2020.