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Editor’s Choice: Singles Day – A Retail Revolution

Logistics Viewpoints

This article is from Audrey Dong, from KNAPP , and looks at e-commerce in China and the impact of Singles Day. 11 th in 2009 and subsequently adopted by other e-commerce platforms and retailers. For example, the gross merchandise volume of Alibaba Tmall has increased from $5 billion in 2013 to $78 billion in 2020 as below chart.

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HBR: Managers Think They’re Good At Coaching. They’re Not.

The Lean Thinker

example may have been a somewhat extreme case, a recent HBR article by Julia Milner and Trenton Milner titled Managers Think They’re Good at Coaching. The HBR article lists nine skills that the authors associate with coaching: listening. What Is Coaching? While my (real life!) Learning to Coach. questioning.

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Managed Logistics Meets Five Challenges for Complex Supply Chain Operations

Blue Grace Logistics

For example, if a focus on customer service has resulted in shipments that are too small for optimized handling, the right provider should have ideas for a hierarchy of batching decisions that will both protect the company’s reputation with customers and create new efficiencies. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE.

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Key Factors to Consider When Planning and Designing Warehouses

Logistics Bureau

Since I first published this article back in 2009, warehouse design principles haven’t altered that much, but as we received many comments, including requests for more information, I figured it might be a good idea to expand on the original piece. For example, we need to know if we can get to the required level of packaging unit.

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How 3PLs Are Building More Collaborative Supply Chains

Blue Grace Logistics

By providing that level of cus­tomer support, 3PLs should be able to grow regardless of fluctuations in freight demand, Harris said, pointing to his own company as an example. BlueGrace, a freight brokerage and provider of managed transportation services, got its start in 2009 amid a particularly weak freight market.

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Winning strategies for distributors and manufacturers during an economic downturn

EazyStock

In this article, we will show you some of the most important steps and measures to equip your organization for an economic downturn and create opportunities to flourish even during an economic downturn. It found that 20% outperformed competitors’ results during the downturn and recovery.

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Why Sustainable Food Systems are Needed in a post-COVID World

World Food Programme Logistics

In many countries, for example, it became impossible to harvest or package food as workers were blocked at borders or fell sick. Read more James Lomax has been the Sustainable Food Systems and Agriculture Programme Officer in UN Environment’s Division of Technology, Industry and Economics based in Paris, France since 2009.