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Implementing Visibility to Reduce Risk Along the Cold Chain

Disruptions continue to challenge the nation’s supply chains, but it’s how companies prepare and react that provide that added layer of risk protection needed to overturn supply chain disruptions.

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Supply Chain Industry Experts Discuss Future of Supply Chains

SCN Summit: State of the Supply Chain Week kicks off Dec. 6 with a discussion on warehouse automation and e-commerce fulfillment, followed by Industry Outlooks, procurement, transportation, procurement, risk management and smart manufacturing.

Finding a 3PL Partner Who Can Manage Today’s Logistics Challenges

Finding a 3PL Partner Who Can Manage Today’s Logistics Challenges

In a world full of supply-chain disruptions, it’s more important than ever to maintain a predictable, repeatable and efficient less-than-truckload (LTL) cold chain.

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Demand in Used Fleet Vehicles Pushes Ryder Growth

Ryder opens five new locations to used vehicles for industrial logistics. The new plan follows a significant growth year in demand for used vehicles as the sector grows at the same time new vehicle manufacturing stalls.

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Self-Service Solution for Flexible, On-Demand Warehousing

This self-service solution enables warehouses and 3PLs to pick and choose the projects they desire while simultaneously marketing their services and facility to a large audience of prospective customers.

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A Resilient Cold Chain Starts with Automation and Nearshoring

Investing in nearshoring and persistent innovation will ultimately deliver a more seamless movement of goods across the globe and create a resilient infrastructure.

Automation includes driverless material handling equipment and even software solutions.

Cold Chain Automation is Efficient First and Foremost

Now that automation is prolific and supply chain disruptions are everywhere, the technology becomes more of a “need to have” rather than something that is just nice to have.

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SCN Summit | Transportation for the Cold Chain

December 8, 2021

Hear from industry experts detail the ins and outs of the cold chain transportation sector and what this means for the future of food and pharma.

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Sustainable, Actively Cooled Tote Delivers Freshness in Last-Mile Grocery Market

One solution solves multiple use cases, including storage; pick-and-pack (manual, semi-automated, automated); curbside pickup; delivery and unassisted delivery; and hub and spoke.

Facing the Cold Realities of Meeting Rising Demand. Why Automate?

Facing the Cold Realities of Meeting Rising Demand. Why Automate?

To grow and protect margins in the face of rising costs and labor shortages. Become cost-conscious and consider highly productive automated solutions.

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What the Clean Label Trend Means for 3PLs

Clean label products increase in the food industry, as consumers look for healthier products. But what does this mean for the 3PLs that transport them?

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3PLs Keep on Truckin’: Digitizing the Pickup and Delivery Process

Will Chu, CEO of Vector, says that in order to create a more resilient fleet, 3PLs will have to figure out ways to improve their transportation and logistics systems.

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Food Logistics Editors Talk Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers

Food Logistics editors Marina Mayer, Brielle Jaekel and Mackenna Moralez congratulate the winners of the 2021 Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers award.

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Strong Demand Continues for 3PL & Cold Storage Providers Post-COVID-19 Pandemic

Food Logistics announces the winners of its 2021 Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers award, which recognizes leading third-party logistics and cold storage providers in the cold food and beverage industry.

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Why CSCMP Edge2021 is the Must-Attend Event for Global Supply Chain Professionals

Sessions cover everything from order fulfillment and emerging trends to risk management, inventory management, supply chain planning, procurement, warehousing, logistics and talent management.

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Emerson Offers New Temperature Logging Solution

The programmable and reusable data loggers collect time, temperature and humidity data from perishable products in-transit.

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3PLs Keep on Truckin’: Investing in End-to-End Visibility

Mike McClelland, SVP of transportation for Kenco Logistics, details why having a 3PL partner that controls the entire process provides greater control, visibility and flexibility.

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3 Best Practices for Shipping Produce

Many consumers opt for organic, locally grown produce, and supply chain companies must adapt to an already precarious process.

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3PLs Keep on Truckin’: Capacity is King

Rock Magnan, president at RK Logistics Group, says that if you build capacity in a specific market, like last mile, then you will find demand for it.

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Future Proofing the Cold Chain with Connectivity Strategies

Building block solutions will play a critical role – not only enabling next generation connectivity, but also ensuring OEM focus remains on developing smart and competitive asset tracking applications.

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All-Electric Refrigerated Delivery Vehicle to Redefine Last-Mile Food Delivery

ELMS and Thermo King expect to pilot the Urban Delivery prototype with refrigerated transport customers.

Facing the Cold Realities of Meeting Rising Demand. Why Automate?

Facing the Cold Realities of Meeting Rising Demand. Why Automate?

To grow and protect margins in the face of rising costs and labor shortages. Become cost-conscious and consider highly productive automated solutions.

Different types of freezers and chillers for different types of food products will require varying levels of maintenance and cleaning to keep in top shape.

How Modern Freezers and Chillers Improve Food Safety in the Cold Chain

Greg Sheridan, sales manager for FPS Food Process Solutions Corp., talks about freezers and chillers in the cold food space, what to consider when installing new equipment and what companies should be mindful of going forward.

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Refrigerated Trucking Capacity Shortage: How to Avoid Sky-High Costs

Here are a few key strategies that reefer shippers should keep in mind as refrigerated capacity continues to remain tight.

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Refrigerated Goods Trucking Global Market to Reach $50.02B in 2021

The growth is largely attributed to companies having to rearrange operations due to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic by social distancing, remote working and certain closures of commercial activities

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Lease vs. Own for Cold Chain Facilities

Leasing allows food and beverage distributors to avoid the expense of owning physical cold chain facilities.

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Transition to Proactive Cold Chain Management

More producers are seeking software and service providers who can solve their data challenges and support various aspects of cold chain management.

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The Growing Need for Temperature-Controlled Packaging in a Post-Pandemic World

Amid this wave of demand, packaging suppliers found themselves in the position of educators, helping B2B partners rapidly acquire an understanding of cold transit best practices.

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Contractor Management Technology Set to Help Cut National Driver Shortage

New drivers are added daily to IC Recruit, where companies can search by vehicle type and states where they need delivery services.

Last mile in food grows during COVID-19.

Technology Consolidation and Sustainability: The Future of 3PL’s Last-Mile

As the supply chain rebuilds a stronger future, technology and sustainability will need to be top of mind.

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Lineage Logistics Acquires Kloosterboer Group

Kloosterboer consists of 11 facilities across the Netherlands, France, Germany, Canada, and South Africa, totaling 6.4 million cubic meters of capacity and 790,000 pallet positions and employing over 900 team members.

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RLS Logistics to Build New Cold Storage Warehouse

The 83,000-square-foot temperature-controlled cold storage warehouse will boast 18,000 pallet positions for refrigerated and frozen foods.

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SCN Summit Kicks off with Industry Outlook, Focus on Risk Management and Discussion on Transportation Trends

Today kicks off the beginning of SCN Summit: State of the Supply Chain week, a full week devoted to knowledge, education and networking about all things supply chain and logistics. Check out the schedule of events for this week.