Penske to Manage Kroger’s Indiana DC

Penske officially began operating the facility July 21

August 8, 2013

Penske Logistics announced it will operate and manage Kroger’s 600,000 square-foot refrigerated food DC in West Shelbyville, Ind. To read more, click HERE.

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L.I.N.K. | Tork Exec Highlights Hygiene in the Workplace

Associate editor Brielle Jaekel sits down with Jim Lang, Manufacturing Excellence Director at Essity North America, owner of Tork, to talk about hygiene in the supply chain during COVID-19.

L.I.N.K. Live | Food Logistics Editors Talk Truck Driver Shortage

Marina, Brielle and Mackenna sit down with Rebecca Brewster, president and COO of American Transportation Research Institute, to discuss driver shortage, results from ATRI’s annual driver report, the future of trucking and transportation and more

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L.I.N.K. | AWS Explains How the Cloud Helps Supply Chains

Associate editor Brielle Jaekel brings on an executive from Amazon Web Services to demystify the cloud, discussing how Amazon’s retail business pitfalls inspired the creation of AWS and more in regards to the cloud and machine learning.

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New Executive Council Establishes Less-Than-Truckload Digitalization Standards

The Digital LTL Council brings together carriers, logistics service providers, shippers and technology providers with the sole focus of developing a set of uniform standards that support the scalable automation and digitalization of LTL shipments.

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L.I.N.K. Live | Food Logistics Editors Talk Truck Driver Shortage

Marina, Brielle and Mackenna sit down with Rebecca Brewster, president and COO of American Transportation Research Institute, to discuss driver shortage, results from ATRI’s annual driver report, the future of trucking and transportation and more

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Research: 75% of Companies Plan to Make Changes to Build More Resilient Supply Chains

Among the top findings include, the pandemic is proving to be a catalyst for change, with 75% of survey respondents saying their companies will make changes to supply chain practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic.

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Scaling the Food Supply Chain for Upcoming Holiday Season

Amid multi-billion-dollar shift in consumer food spend and 300% jump in online grocery sales, food retailers need supply chain agility and scale for a holiday season marked by increased demand and shorter timelines.

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3PL Central Launches Industry’s First Ever Third-Party Logistics Warehouse Benchmark Report

3PL Central released the industry’s first ever Benchmark Report focused exclusively on the 3PL warehouse industry.

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Excess Inventory Challenges in Food and Beverage

Here’s the unique aspects of the food and beverage industry’s excess inventory challenges, and what strategies must be implemented to navigate the future.

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More Women Are Turning to Delivery Driving During COVID-19

More women left the labor force in September than the total number of jobs the country added in the same month.

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Food & Beverage E-Commerce: How it Impacts Order Fulfillment

As consumers grow accustomed to the ease and convenience of shopping online for food and beverage products, e-commerce promises to be an important growth area for this category.

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5 Strategic Questions to Optimize RFPs

Let’s delve into some questions that can help shippers align their goals with their overall strategic vision.

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Staying Home for the Holidays

If you're a shipper already struggling to find capacity and meet higher-than-normal demand, one solution is to work with a large diversified transportation service provider that can move your inventory in today's turbulent logistics marketplace.

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Surviving Disasters Along the Cold Supply Chain

By employing an impact analysis coupled with a comprehensive disaster recovery plan, companies can better respond to such disruptions.

To address the need for additional air freight capacity from Latin America to Europe, third-party logistics providers and other supply chain stakeholders introduced charter flights.

How Movement of Perishables Continue to Fly High

To maintain its integrity, fresh produce is often transported via air to ensure prompt, reliable transit.

3PLs are responsible for the safe transportation of ingredients and food.

3PLs Support Resiliency in Foodservice During Pandemic

The upheaval caused from the Coronavirus pandemic required 3PLs in food to assist in major operation pivots.

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MatchBack Systems and SynchroNet Intermodal Services to Provide Unique Services

The combination of these cooperative services focus on solutions for intermodal marketing companies, third-party logistics companies, beneficial cargo owners, truckers, ocean carriers and container leasing companies.

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What to Do When a Supplier Fails in Your Food Supply Chain

Supplier failure becomes much easier to navigate when you’re set up to be agile, informed and open to innovative solutions.

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How Implementing 4PL Consignment in Practice Can Be Helpful for a Business

4PL operators supervise, mastermind and manage the complexities of an organization’s logistical chores, thereby providing a distinctive look into a business’s overall operations.

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The Inevitable Transformation of Trucking is Coming

There is plenty of opportunity to improve workforce safety, create efficiencies in the supply chain with contactless payments and automation and inevitably create room for the future of trucking with emerging technology.

Having critical road data can be the difference between a good and bad delivery experience for a customer.

Transitioning to a Delivery-First World

Here are Top 3 location tech features every urban delivery service should have.

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Women in Trucking to Launch New Diversity & Inclusion Index

The D&I Index will document the programs that fleets currently use, share best practices that have proven successful across the industry and recognize creative solutions in different areas.

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L.I.N.K. | Supply Chain Editors Talk Airline Freight with Laura Kvistad of Unisys

Marina, Brielle and Mackenna visit with Laura Kvistad, senior marketing of communications from Unisys, to discuss airline freight in the supply chain.

The safety in food transportation means safety for grocery customers.

How Do 3PLs Handle Recalls in the Cold Chain?

Third-party logistics providers likely never issues a recall, but is a key party responsible for acting on it. Here’s who’s responsible and why.

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Uber Freight Expands Enterprise Shipper Offering with Uber Freight Enterprise and Uber Freight Link

These products advance and complement shippers’ existing TMS and WMS solutions, enabling seamless, efficient end-to-end freight management at enterprise scale.

International Foodservice Distribution Association Debuts Virtual Conference

Scheduled for Oct. 27-29, DSC DIRECT will feature education sessions, a virtual expo hall, innovation lab presentations and virtual networking.

People are shopping; they’re just having more goods brought to their door from distribution centers.

Top 3 Freight Trends Set to Shape the Rest of 2020

The severity of COVID-19 outbreaks and how consumers respond will tell supply chain managers a lot about what to expect during the balance of the year.