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This Week in Logistics News (August 13 – 19)

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Facing supplier constraints, Aurora delays autonomous truck launch. Cost of trucking grows to record high. As inflation continues to raise operating costs, Amazon is looking at ways to recoup some of these costs. Those costs vary depending on an item’s size, category, and weight. Kinaxis acquires MPO.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

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Cooper successfully coped with the crisis, but the high costs they had to pay for critical supplies and the late nights searching for those supplies convinced the organization that there had to be a better way. Cooper then uses box trucks that make runs to the hospital all throughout the day. But there was a cost to this.

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3PL Basics: An Introduction to 3rd Party Logistics with Roberto Cadena

The Logistics of Logistics

3rd party logistics services include 5 major categories: 1.) To succeed in the transportation and logistics business, 3PLs need to be able to hire and retain the very best talent, while keeping a lid on costs. The Lean approach is low cost, low risk, low hassle, and they manage the entire process with their account managers.

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The Details of Last-Mile Delivery

Ship Monk

This typically means the ecommerce order is on the ultimate truck that will deliver the package to your customer. Well, you have to think about cost, customer expectations, and other ecommerce order challenges that affect last-mile delivery excellence. What does all this mean if you’re an ecommerce brand?

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Bringing Order to Chaos: Last-Mile Delivery Costs and How to Reduce Them

Locus

Customer satisfaction and keeping costs in check rests on optimal last-mile delivery operations. Naturally, the costs of meeting such expectations, especially on the delivery front are also increasing. The biggest challenge that logistics providers face is rising last-mile carrier delivery costs. These include: 1.

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The Logistics of Logistics

3rd party logistics services include 5 major categories: 1.) Lean Solutions Group provides operational, sales, marketing, and technology support to over 290 customers in logistics and 320 total To succeed in the transportation and logistics business, 3PLs need to be able to hire and retain the very best talent, while keeping a lid on costs.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 12 – 18)

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Rail strike could cost economy billions. Pickle Robots are unloading trucks. Unfortunately, the cost of hiring human buyers to negotiate with these suppliers does not make sense. DoorDash is also launching a new “Beauty” category to highlight the incorporation. Amazon unveils smaller drone that flies through rain.