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Multi-Channel Fulfillment Case Study: Slumberkins

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

If you’re a fast-growing online business with fulfillment challenges, you might be interested in this short, multi-channel fulfillment case study. Started in 2015, the brand has taken off. Slumberkins® patented cuddly creatures and accompanying story books teach positive social-emotional learning skills to children.

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The Port of Virginia with Stephen Edwards

The Logistics of Logistics

According to an economic impact study conducted by the Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary, 390,000 Virginia jobs – nearly ten percent of the state’s resident workforce – are linked to port activity across our six terminals. Between 2015 and 2025, the port will have invested $1.5

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What’s Next for The Freight Market with Chris Pickett

The Logistics of Logistics

Before joining Coyote in 2006, Chris spent his early career in supply chain software development and network design – and studied at as many Eastern US tech schools as he could: earning a B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, an M.Eng. in Logistics from MIT, and an MBA from Georgia Tech.

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Toyota Kata and The Menlo Way

The Lean Thinker

ever since I came across and read it in the fall of 2015. That is the benefit of studying companies like Menlo. Copyright © 2015, Mark Rosenthal. I have been telling everyone who will listen to read Rich Sheridan’s book Joy, Inc. I wrote to Mike Rother and asked him “Do you think we could get Rich Sheridan?”.

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Building a High Growth, Customer Focused 3PL with Betsy Westhafer

The Logistics of Logistics

Betsy attended Western Kentucky University where she studied Journalism, Public Relations, and Business Administration. After realizing she was an entrepreneur at heart, Betsy started a legal company which she sold in 2015 before starting The Congruity Group. About The Congruity Group.

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Toyota Kata and Culture Change

The Lean Thinker

When we study “culture” we are looking at the groups’ default patterns of interaction. Actually the message of “adaptive leadership” has been present since at least the first KataCon back in 2015. In the end, I think they all come down to various ways of saying “how people talk to each other.”

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Top Trends in Freight Forwarder Digitization

Freightos

This year’s Freightos mystery shopper study looked to answer these questions. . For previous years’ reports: 2015 , 2017 , 2018. In the study we looked to online spot quoting as a proxy for the overall digitization of the industry as it’s often a shipper’s first encounter with forwarders. Keep reading for the highlights OR.