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1. The Need to Keep More Inventory on Hand Expanded the Use of Safety Stock.    For most manufacturers, the trend pre-pandemic was to adopt just-in-time manufacturing practices to keep inventory costs lower.  This also helped warehouses to better utilize space.  With...

DHL Pilots Drive-Up Mobile Pop-Up Retail Store in Response to Social Distancing Concerns  The global COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to numerous innovations.  Industry leader DHL announced recently that it had opened a 2,200 cubic foot drive up mobile pop-up retail...

CPG Relies on Favored Tool During COVID-19 Pandemic:  SKU Rationalization Consumer tastes have changed. During the COVID pandemic, when much of the population was locked down, snacking became common.  These increasing habits lead to issues in servicing the wide...

Need for E-Commerce Professionals Escalates In the LinkedIn’s Jobs on the Rise report, frontline e-commerce roles grew by approximately 73% between April and October 2020.  This is the highest year-over-year growth period on record.  As of January 15th, 2021, there...

GM Launches BrightDrop, Electric First-to-Last Mile Products, Software and Services An innovative concept for “electrifying” the delivery side of e-commerce D2C deliveries recently was announced by General Motors.  GM has debuted the announcement of its new...

Not sure if you heard, but frozen foods are at the height of their popularity these days.  At first, it seemed like a fluke.  Grocery chains were reporting that most of their frozen food products were cleared out when the lockdown was initially announced.  The trend...

American Trucking Industry Braces for Year of Transition With the global coronavirus pandemic continuing to rage on, experts anticipate that what may have started out as a temporary fix may now become established patterns.  Consumers have become comfortable ordering...

2020 Holiday Shipping Gridlock Armageddon Online shopping demand has finally caught up with the shipping carriers.  ShipMatrix, a software solutions company which provides shipping tracking, recently revealed the extent of holiday package shipping gridlock and it was...

Did you know that the U.S. is the largest importer of face masks, eye protective gear and medical gloves in the world?  Because of this, the United States is heavily dependent upon the global supply chain.  When the coronavirus outbreak first occurred in early 2020,...

Food and Bev Industry Groups Lobby for COVID-19 Vaccine Priority Out of concern for essential workers, representatives from fifteen food, beverage and CPG industry trade groups lobbied both President Trump and President-elect Joe Biden in mid-November to prioritize...

7-Eleven Sails Ahead with Small Basket Delivery Did you know that 7-Eleven offers delivery via seven different third-party services including Instacart, Uber Eats, Postmates, DoorDah and Grubhub?  7-Eleven is now able to offer delivery covering 90% of its service...

Why Test?  What is the COVID-19 Testing Strategy? Early in the pandemic, the scientific community advised that COVID-19 testing would be instrumental in getting the spread of the coronavirus under control.  The strategy of imposing lockdowns was designed to stall for...

Best Buy Boasts Same Day Delivery Using Partner Instacart The largest consumer electronics retailer in the United States, Best Buy has launched a partnership with Instacart to provide customers with same day delivery of technology products.  As its online sales have...

2020 is the Year of Shipping and Delivery COVID-19 has certainly changed the world in many unforeseen ways and has had a major impact on retail sales.  Although retail sales are down, e-commerce has been outperforming other sectors and aided in offsetting the lack of...

Across the world, patients depend on medications to treat infectious diseases, as well as special therapeutics for orphan drugs and rare diseases, clinical trials for new drugs to treat cancer and other conditions.  The process of drug discovery is an expensive one. ...

The Long-Lasting Effects of COVID-19 on the Food and Beverage Supply Chain Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the food and beverage supply chain has had to deal with manufacturing facility shutdowns, the changing dynamics of consumer behavior and price...

Support for Digitization in Shipping Industry Sails Forward To propel the adoption of digitization in the shipping industry, the Digital Container Shipping Association (DSCA) published standardized electronic data definitions for the port call process.  Adoption of...

Did you know that online grocery sales increased approximately 22% and are anticipated to escalate to 40% in 2020?Since the first quarter of 2020, American consumers have become increasingly dependent on online grocery ordering and delivery.  With the spread of the...

Bet on It, Baby.  Las Vegas is an “Ace” in Distribution Logistics Shifting away from its reputation as a location for entertainment and gaming, Las Vegas is playing its hand to be the talk of the nation in freight, transportation and logistics, serving major regional...

Black Friday Retailers Sideline Consumers at Home How will retail fare this holiday season?  With many people still working from home and living through either public or self-imposed restrictions, Americans remain highly focused on comfort.  With their travel and...