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This Week in Logistics News (July 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

Warehouse automation is one area where robots have become the norm, with autonomous bots roaming aisles, toting boxes, and getting closer to picking and packing individual items. To back its assertion, the STB pointed to a recent report published by the Federal Reserve of St.

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What Are the 5 Biggest Supply Chain Issues Today?

Stord

2 - Sudden Shortages Companies rely on dockworkers, truck drivers, and warehouse employees to continue to effectively run the shipping and logistics portion of their businesses. Inside warehouses, stay-at-home orders and rising COVID-19 cases kept workers away from facilities. If all your inventory is in my building in St.

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Improving Truck Load Optimization with Better Supply Chain Planning

New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

The result is a lost opportunity to increase utilization and reduce costs, increase on-time deliveries, and streamline warehouse shipping and receiving operations. Source: Data from the Federal Reserve Board of St. Costs have increased about 60% since before the pandemic. Low Transportation Capacity Utilization.

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28 supply chain professionals share the biggest challenges of supply chain management

6 River Systems

Our supply chain involves a contract manufacturer, a third-party testing facility, warehouses to store inventory and a freighting company. For example, if my contract manufacturer is late with an order it can cause me to incur excess costs with the freighting and warehousing companies, respectively. from Washington University St.

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

In this traditional model of hospital and healthcare supply, the facility’s loading dock fills up fast each day, with bulk deliveries and small orders arriving constantly, which must then be put away in a warehouse or distributed around a campus. Sisters of Mercy Health System, St Louis, United States. Self-distribution.