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Supply Chain Shock Waves: Strategies for Survival and Success with Mark Baxa and John Delgado

The Logistics of Logistics

With a 37-year career, primarily focused on supply chain, he brings vast expertise in areas such as sales, customer service, logistics, distribution, global trade, procurement, sustainability, supplier diversity, and supply chain strategy leadership.

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The Next Frontier in Food Logistics with Alexis Mizell-Pleasant

The Logistics of Logistics

Food Logistics also caters to professionals in the logistics sector, including transportation, warehousing, distribution, software, and technology. It covers topics related to food and beverage manufacturing, producing, processing, retailing, distributing, restaurant and food service, warehousing, transportation, and storage.

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The New Generation of Microservices-Based Applications Can Create ‘Cliff Events’

Logistics Viewpoints

Executives at Blue Yonder refer to this as a “cliff event.” To avoid a cliff event, Blue Yonder has proceeded by turning its supply chain applications into applications that are part traditional software code and part microservices. Before you drop an order to the distribution center, you need to know how the DC is behaving.”

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10 Ways A Data Gateway Improves Time to Value Across Your End-to-End Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

It should be easy to connect to new data sources as the need arises, such as ESG or SNEW (social, news, events, weather) data. A manufacturing company, for example, can monitor real-time data from its suppliers, production lines, and distribution centers.

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Efficient Frozen Food Distribution: Inside the Build-out of Two Automated Facilities

Logistics Viewpoints

In December of 2019, the global grocery retailer Ahold Delhaize announced it was investing $480 million to transform and expand its US supply chain operations to support a strategy to transition the supply chain network into a fully-integrated, self-distribution model.

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Key questions to ask your pharmaceutical distribution warehouse provider

Kanban Logistics

When evaluating the 3PL provider in charge of your pharmaceutical distribution warehouse, safety is the name of the game. Key pharmaceutical distribution warehouse questions to ask a 3PL. Most 3PLs will use their warehouse management systems (WMS) to segregate products within the pharmaceutical distribution warehouse.

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Building a Global Logistics Juggernaut with Nourhan Beyrouti

The Logistics of Logistics

A significant milestone in Beyrouti’s career was his role as the Senior Director of Delivery Solutions, a pivotal position where he led the revenue operations in marketing, strategy, and sales events from 2021 to 2023. As the first management hire, he was instrumental in guiding the company toward its acquisition by UPS in May of 2022.