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The Economics of Space Freight: Reducing Costs, Addressing Challenges, and Defining Future Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

Despite these reductions, the industry faces complex economic, regulatory, and technological challenges that impact its scalability. Telecommunications, defense, and environmental monitoring are sectors benefiting from these cost efficiencies, though deep-space missions remain largely experimental and expensive.

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What the New Administration Could Mean for Your Business

WorkWave

Immigration policy proposals suggest stricter controls, which could reduce the available labor pool in industries such as physical security, commercial cleaning, pest control and landscaping. These sectors rely heavily on foreign-born workers, with an estimated 20% of service occupations filled by immigrants.

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The Real Impact of Pests on Shipping and How to Reduce Pest Issues

MTS Logistics

There must be efficient strategies deployed to reduce the spread of pests and different stakeholders must contribute in some way. The emerald ash borer, a devastating wood-boring insect found in China and eastern Asia, is an example of a pest that is expensive to eradicate. economy more than $1 billion annually.

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Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree

The Logistics of Logistics

Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree. Joe Lynch and Ron Crabtree discuss sourcing strategy: effective vs efficient. When developing a sourcing strategy, the focus can be effectiveness (gaining desired results) or on efficiency (reducing cost, labor, and resources used). About Ron Crabtree.

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Top 5 Barriers to Supply Chain Network Design Adoption and How to Overcome Them

Speaker: Brian Dooley, Director SC Navigator, AIMMS, and Paul van Nierop, Supply Chain Planning Specialist, AIMMS

Want to build your internal capability, reduce costs and make better decisions? You may have recently had M&A activity, about to roll out a new product line or need to cut costs. Don’t have the right tools/tools are too complex or expensive. It's easier than you think. We’ve all been there. Lack of skilled resources.

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Debunking the Top 10 Data Myths in Field Service: Why Your Data Strategy Matters

WorkWave

On top of that, there are often persistent misconceptions about what it takes to collect, manage and take action on effective data strategy. These solutions offer built-in analytics logic that eliminates the need to build systems from scratch. Route optimization reduces fuel costs, vehicle maintenance and labor hours.

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Ecommerce Delivery Providers with Nate Skiver

The Logistics of Logistics

Nate is he Founder of LPF Spend Management , which help parcel shippers create parcel shipping programs which reduce expense, while delivering a positive customer experience. Ecommerce carriers [recent market entrants]: Covers a range of operating models, examples include Pandion, X Delivery, AirTerra, Veho, The FrontDoor Collective.

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