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This Week in Logistics News (April 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

The most famous shortage, of course, was the toilet paper shortage, which was really more about a shift in usage and panic buying than production. And now on to this week’s logistics news. UPS partially reinstates money-back delivery guarantee. as well as the next-afternoon delivery product, known as Saver.

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The End of the E-Commerce Hype Is Bad News for Planes

ShipLilly

Of course, that expectation could only hold if the upward trend in e-Commerce continued. Even the more traditional actors in the logistics industry were taken in. This year alone, conversions of the Boeing 737 narrow-build group have reached 52. Adjusting to new storage requirements and modalities.

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Retail Supply Chains: The State of Play in 2021

Logistics Bureau

Instead of the familiar customer checkouts, dark stores house dispatch zones, where customer orders are assembled and configured for last-mile delivery , often performed by crowdsourcing logistics providers or conventional express-delivery companies. The reverse logistics process, too, is a prime target for refinement.

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What Does it Take to be a Successful Entrepreneur? The Incredible Journey of a Last Mile Pioneer

Logistics Viewpoints

Wumdrop is a successful last mile logistics company in South Africa. And we reconnected and bonded over the course of a few weeks. Couriers optimize routes by centralizing their demand and distributed over the course of the day. We hired talented group of young engineers. The following text has been edited.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 27 – March 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

Over the course of the next week, nearly 6,000 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer , Alabama are voting on whether they want to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. The company has dropped the $35 minimum purchase requirement for the two-hour Express delivery service.