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How to Build an Ethical Supply Chain (and Why)
Over 80 percent of U.S. consumers say they would buy from a company that advocated for a cause they cared about and 75 percent say they would refuse to purchase from a company that supported a cause they disagreed with. Americans are increasingly making statements with their purchases. They want to be sure that the…
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Why Choose a Pooled Pallet Rental Program?
There’s a reason most of the large companies you can think of depend on a pallet rental program for the shipping pallets they need to deliver their goods. Pallets are absolutely critical to the supply chain and have been for nearly a century, yet despite this, few companies have mastered the art of pallet management.…
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Shipping Pallet Market Analysis and Trends
Analyzing the shipping pallet market is a difficult task, and drawing firm conclusions about future trends is harder still. The pallet market is divided into two separate worlds: that of large pallet pools which offer multi-use pallets on an international scale, and the more fragmented world of single-use stringer pallets. Making things even more complicated,…
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Plastic vs. Wood Pallets: Choosing a Shipping Pallet Material
Executives paid more attention to the supply chain in 2018 than they have in decades. One big reason was increasing transportation costs, which will continue to threaten profit margins into 2019 as contributing factors, like the truck driver shortage, persist. There is a silver lining to all this, though. Logistics operations have been conducted for…
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ISPM Pallets: Bypassing Wood Pallet Requirements for ISPM 15
If you’ve ever been on the Gulf Coast on a humid summer night just after dusk, you may have noticed clouds of insects swarming every light source, buzzing around faces, and crunching underfoot. These winged creatures haunting the coast are not moths or mosquitoes, but Formosan termites, an invasive pest that causes millions of dollars…
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Deep Lane Storage: When to Choose High-Density Automated Warehouse Storage
The modern supply chain is complicated, to say the least. A variety of products from locations thousands of miles apart arrive at the same warehouse to be processed and shipped off to locations that are also thousands of miles apart. Keeping track of these products and finding slots that keep different product types separate and…
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Optimizing the Grocery Supply Chain
Most of the attention-grabbing headlines around the grocery supply chain have to do with Amazon, Whole Foods, and the future of grocery delivery to the home. It’s a tricky model to get right, and even Amazon hasn’t quite managed to make home grocery delivery safe, profitable, and attractive for the general public. Yet, in spite…
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Pharmaceutical Warehouse Requirements: How to Design Pharma Storage and Retrieval
It’s something of an old saw that logistics is understudied, but it is true. Businesses, the public, and even regulators tend to pay little attention to the details of getting products from point A to point B. The Code of Federal Regulations for Food and Drugs Title 21 has many pages dedicated to the application…