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A Multibillion-Dollar Supply Chain Market Growing at a Double Digit Rate that Nobody Knows About

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC’s definition is that a supply chain collaboration network is a “collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a public cloud – many-to-many architecture – which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds. What is this Market? The solution is called a supply chain collaboration network (SCCN).

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

Logistics Viewpoints

Women’s History Month is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. And while this definitely points to an industry making strides, a recent Procurious survey found that 75 percent of women in supply chain experience gender-based adversity.

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Business-to-Anything Integration Supports Agile Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain collaboration networks, which provide wide ranging visibility to events occurring upstream and downstream in supply chains, can help companies be more agile. There is much better access to all sorts of information that can be used to improve supply chain processes then there was even a few years ago.

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Food Sector Fears over Warehouse Automation

Logistics Business Magazine

Higher throughputs, managed, picked and delivered more accurately, improving service levels with less inventory (and waste), better transport utilisation, all with lower levels of labour and a more flexible and agile response to changing market conditions, whether there be one-off events or longer-term trends.

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Pharmaceuticals in Reverse Supply Chain Now Hazardous Waste

Material Handling and Logistics

This applies to pharmaceuticals that are characteristically toxic, or that meet the definition of certain “listed” wastes, such as P and U listed acutely hazardous substances. Upon being “discarded,” those pharmaceuticals become solid waste, triggering management obligations under the Resource Conservation and Restoration Act (RCRA).

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Crowdfunding for Ecommerce Brands

Ship Monk

But first a few definitions. Your job will be to heavily promote your page via email, events, social media, or any other method you can think of. Dimensional scanners, robotics, sorting machines, and multi-point quality control checks ensure lightning-speed fulfillment and order accuracy. What is Crowdfunding?

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Six Supply Chain Priorities That Should be on Top of Your 2021 Agenda

Sabinext

The Covid-19 pandemic has served as a pivotal event in this, accelerating our need for digital readiness, resilience, and agility. Future parcel centers will accommodate shipment dimensioning, automated sorting using mobile robots, and automated loose load extraction from swap bodies, amongst many more innovations.