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BlueGrace 2017 National Conference | Recap

Blue Grace Logistics

This year, BlueGrace Logistics held their National Conference at the beautiful SandPearl resort in Clearwater Beach, FL. To no surprise, the conference was jam packed with fantastic speakers including Don Hutson, Alex Sheen and Brian Holloway. Everyone enjoyed learning experiences, lunches and a reception back at headquarters.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 29 – November 4)

Logistics Viewpoints

Save Mart associates pick and pack the orders at the participating store, and Amazon delivers the groceries to customers using Amazon Flex drivers. The shortage projection, released on the final day of the ATA Management Conference & Exhibition at the San Diego Convention Center, is expected to grow over the next decade, Costello said.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 25 – March 4)

Logistics Viewpoints

We have certainly seen more focus on women in supply chain over the last few years, and nearly every conference that I attend has tracks dedicated to women in supply chain. The growth in e-commerce has resulted in an increase in parcels with more flexible transit time requirements, or deferred traffic.

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Conflict resolution

Automotive Logistics

Discussions in the packaging Ideas Lab at the Automotive Logistics Europe conference last year pointed toward smaller collaborations as a good starting place, where two OEMs and a packaging provider worked together to come up with a standard product and then shared it with the wider industry. This includes working with parts design.

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13 Warehouse Types: Definitions, Functions & Examples

Conger

Geological Survey. Companies often choose private warehouses because of the high degree of control that they confer over the handling and storage of goods. Many offer value-added services such as billing, scheduling, managing orders, packing, assembling, and shipping stored goods. General Services Administration.

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Freight Forwarding: Keeping shippers top of mind

247 Customs Broker

Among the report’s key findings was that forwarders that quote manually took 57 hours on average—an improvement on previous surveys, but still 20th century performance. Furthermore, 72% of those forwarders surveyed failed to quote, thereby missing out on digital business. Will they be extinct in 10 years if they don’t fully digitize?”

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Still Think Dangerous Goods is Just Paperwork and Labels?

Talking Logistics

This includes how they must be classified, packed, marked, labelled and documented – as well as the dangerous goods training which must be completed by the people packing and sending them. Over one-third of the survey respondents said that their supervisors are unaware of exactly what they do. Sound familiar?