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Editor’s Choice: Supply Chain Automation for a Greener Future

Logistics Viewpoints

MODEX is the largest manufacturing and supply chain expo in North and South America, and shattered attendance records with over 48,000 participants this year. These solutions are flexible and versatile, and can be utilized for a variety of manufacturing and warehousing tasks.

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Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

ToolsGroup

Examples of this include expediting with LTL and air freight and costly in-network transfers from warehouse to warehouse–all of which erode profit margins. Being able to understand if supply expected from Europe needs to be re-routed and sourced from Asia or South America is important when entire channels become unavailable.

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Embracing the South American Ecommerce Marketplace

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Ecommerce is on the rise in South America. That’s great news for shippers looking to expand their online retail presence in South America. Having the right information is the first step to wading through the muck and mire of this complicated ecommerce marketplace: South America customs vary by country.

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A Logistics Conversation with Arcadia Cold, Part 1

BlueYonder

There are truck drivers, warehouse, port, airline, and railroad workers. Asia, Europe, and South America, learning about different food logistics environments and developing solutions for both ourselves and our customers, based on different commodity type flows. JD: The average age of cold storage warehouses in the U.S.

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Food Logistics Awards ThroughPut Inc as a 2021 Top Software & Technology Provider

ThroughPut

During the pandemic, our customers have enabled an incredible journey from the farms of South America, to the glass bottle manufacturers of the US, to supermarkets in Europe, and even the container ports in the Middle East, and beyond. ThroughPut.ai

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Emergency Freight: What Harvey Tells Us About Irma

DAT Solutions

Houston is also a major freight hub for rail and sea traffic, as well as trucking, including trade with Mexico by land and with South America and other regions by sea. Then Irma headed toward Florida, and those same Southeast hubs re-focused and moved freight south instead of west. It could take months.

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How manufacturers and distributors can mitigate disruption in the global supply chain

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

For example, one of the main problems with Asian-US trade is that all container ship deliveries are now routed to the West Coast, even though the bulk of America’s manufacturers are based on the East Coast. This is to avoid more costly routes such as the Panama Canal or taking the long haul around the tip of Africa or South America.