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Refrigerated Trucks Are Using Visibility, Productivity & Collaboration Tech to Create High-Value Supply Chains

Turvo

Collaboration tech appears among the newest and most potent available of all these tools and processes. Many shipping lines rely on refrigerated trucks and other advanced shipping services. Examples of Tech Used in Supply Chains Today. Automation, technology, innovations, and tools must be embraced and utilized.

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Understanding Temp-Controlled vs. Ambient Warehouses

FW Logsitcs

The emergence of these specialized warehouses allows customized storage and distribution strategies tailored to product characteristics like shelf life, sensitivity, and turnover velocity. However, they enable safe, efficient cold chain distribution for perishable and pharmaceutical items.

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A Fully Connected Cold Chain With Burris Logistics

Trinity Logistics

Produce inspection tool. Custom Dedicated Distribution. Burris Logistics works with you to create the best possible warehousing and distribution solutions. But, we’re here to talk about the cold chain, so let’s focus on refrigerated and frozen freight. Trucker Tools. Trucker Tools Book It Now.

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Editor’s Choice: 4 Factors to Determine if Self-Distribution is a Viable Alternative for your Health System

Logistics Viewpoints

This article is from Scott Mullins, EVP of Operations and COO at Lucas Systems, and looks at self-distribution in healthcare systems. Self-distribution is an increasingly popular option for healthcare systems to consider when deciding how to manage their supply chain.

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Does Perfect Customer Service Make Sense?

Logistics Viewpoints

Many of the specialty drugs need to be refrigerated and have short lifespans. We could not manage our business with that tool,” Mr. Stephens realized. The RapidResponse planning tool gives both the internal supply chain and external stakeholders visibility to the plan and the ability to rapidly adjust that plan. The results?

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Greenwashing by Coca-Cola: “Circular seas” & Zero emission transport.

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

It is a tool to exploit consumers’ growing environmental sensitivity within a fundamentally unsustainable business model. Considering that more than 90% of the emissions generated by Coca-Cola are those over which it has no direct control (ingredients it uses, packaging, refrigeration equipment, transport, and distribution).

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Inventory Carrying Cost: What It Is, How to Calculate It and How to Reduce It

FourKites

It includes hard costs like your investment in the product, physical warehouse or storage space, transportation and distribution fees, as well as soft costs like taxes, insurance and the personnel needed to manage the product. Examples of inventory carrying costs. Storage Space Cost. Opportunity Costs. Warehousing.