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DHL supports boohoo’s US expansion

Logistics Business Magazine

DHL Supply Chain , part of Deutsche Post DHL Group, has been chosen by boohoo group plc to manage its first-ever US distribution centre. sq ft distribution centre in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, southeast of Harrisburg. As boohoo’s popularity in the US continues to grow, DHL Supply Chain will lead the operation of a new 1.1m

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The Evolution and History of Supply Chain Management

GlobalTranz

In the mid 1950s, this concept was extended to transportation management with the development of intermodal containers together with ships, trains, and trucks to handle these containers. By the 1960s, a clear trend had developed in shifting more time-dependent freight transportation to truck rather than rail.

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

Averting this outcome depends upon business leaders and government policymakers to actually implement measures to reverse the present trend. A monumental after-effect has been the subtraction of years of training knowledge from the domestic U.S. Personnel development must be cultivated by ongoing training for workers.

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Automatic Replenishment: Everything You Need to Know

Conger

This means that they can plan for seasonal trends, promotions, and other factors that affect inventory levels. It can require a significant upfront investment in hardware, software, and training staff. The required costs may include equipment maintenance and staff re-training for updated systems.

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Some reading suggestions, while you wait in the airport!

Blog on Log

“The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference” by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books, 2002) Publisher’s Blurb: “The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.” Levitt and Stephen J. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion” by Robert B.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

• The growing army of robots used in distribution. It’s not even really that clean just in robots for manufacturing and distribution. Distribution is a different matter. We are approaching, I believe, an inflection point in distribution robotics. Carsten Baumann.