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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore being struck by the Dali and collapsing is an unpredictable disruption to the supply chains of several industries including automobiles, coal, and agricultural machinery. The port handles about 11 million tons of cargo per year, including automobiles, containers, coal, and farm products.

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What Is Cross-Docking?

FW Logsitcs

Supply chains that utilize this process are able to meet customer demands faster by avoiding extra inventory handling steps. Cross-docking facilities serve as material handling and distribution centers rather than storage facilities. Workers and/or automated systems sort items by outbound destination.

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Industry View: DCs Rise to Meet Unprecedented Challenges

Logistics Business Magazine

Pressing needs and panic buying have created the equivalent to peak season demand in many industries. Today, new employees are being brought in on the fly, with many coming from service industries or distribution centres that have seen a downturn in demand. Efficiently getting them up to speed is critical.

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Keeping Bakery Distribution Fresh

Logistics Business Magazine

Cimcorp helped Kwik Trip automate order fulfilment in its new baking facility with a rapid, scalable solution designed to meet rising demand and guarantee freshness for its bakery products sold at over 700 locations daily. Kwik Trip also uses a “pick-by-light” system for picking less-than-full trays in outbound orders.

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How to Measure Success: KPIs for Inbound Logistics

WorkWave

What are inbound and outbound logistics? Both inbound and outbound logistics involve the transportation of products across various distribution channels, however inbound logistics deals with supply and outbound logistics fulfill demands.

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Pallet Shuttle System is Better, Bigger, Easier

Logistics Business Magazine

The solution meets the issues of 3pl industry by providing flexible in product handling and throughput. For its customers in the Chocolate Industry, stock may include ingredients and primary goods for chocolate making through to bars and boxes of chocolates, numbering as many as 1000 SKUs depending on the stock profile.

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Hazmat Products Shipping Tutorial for Ecommerce Businesses

Ship Monk

Extra care must be taken when storing, handling, packing, and shipping these and other hazmat products. Five separate agencies under the USDOT handle the administration and enforcement of these regulations. But you do need to make sure that everyone has the proper training and certification to handle hazmat products.