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This Week in Logistics News (September 16 – 22)

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Walmart said it will host its Walmart Deals – Holiday Kickoff savings event, featuring deals on thousands of holiday gift items across categories such as electronics, home, fashion, and toys, from Monday, October 9 through Thursday, October 12. At full capacity, the company said, the factory will employ 500 human workers in Salem.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

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Cooper then uses box trucks that make runs to the hospital all throughout the day. And the reasons spanned from a global chip shortage, to embargoes, to factory fires, to natural disasters. When Cooper began putting their vendors into the platform, they began to see that with certain product categories there was concentration risk.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

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The company’s 12 brands are organized into three categories: Outdoor, Active and Work/Work-Inspired. To accomplish this, 10,000 supply chain associates worked with 450 global vendors who operate over 600 factories. Boxes will be taken from the back of a truck and inducted onto a conveyor.

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Shipping a Car Overseas

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So, whether you’re relocating outside the United States for work or need military shipping for active-duty assignments, we can walk you through the steps of shipping your car (or truck) to your destination. Get familiar with the terms of overseas shipping for cars and trucks. Preparing the paperwork to ship a car overseas.

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Shipping a Car Overseas

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So, whether you’re relocating outside the United States for work or need military shipping for active-duty assignments, we can walk you through the steps of shipping your car (or truck) to your destination. ” This term appears on many documents and forms that need to be completed. If your SUV or RV weighs more, you must pay extra.

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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

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Procuring transportation for freight is much different than any other procurement category. That factory also aims to rapidly process the raw materials into product. When it comes to delivery to their own production facilities, “on time” is defined as the truck being at the dock at its appointment time. Speed is of the essence.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 1 – 7)

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Spending is growing across several categories, and the top Easter items consumers say they are planning to purchase include candy ($3.3 From upgrading counterfeit detection technology to destroying merchandise and raiding factories, Amazon says it’s pulling out all the stops to prevent fakes on its platform. billion), gifts ($3.8