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Supply Chain Aid for Natural Disasters
Typically, when we talk about supply chain, we talk about moving product – product that will eventually be purchased, consumed, and probably disposed of at some point. It leaves it fairly dry and detached. We’re just moving stuff. But with […]
Milk Microbe Study can Improve Food Safety
By Alex Batty, MHI Marketing Communications Coordinator |@mhi_alex More milk news! The reason it keeps coming up is because transporting milk and milk products is kind of a big deal. It’s a delicate balance to transport these products and supply […]
Freight Transportation
Today’s transportation landscape has been infused with technological innovations that are both disruptive and ripe with possibilities. Driverless vehicles, 3D printing, cyber security advances, artificial intelligence and other developments will impact this industry in yet-to-be-seen ways. Ask those in the […]
Building Supply Chain Sustainability
By Carol Miller, MHI Vice President of Marketing and Communications Although sustainability has been a buzzword throughout supply chains since the dawn of the new millennium, the push to implement greener facility designs and practices has ebbed and flowed. The […]
The Growing Role of 3PLs
“Today’s 3PL is not your grandfather’s 3PL,” said J. Paul Dittman, executive director, Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee. “3PLs have expanded dramatically within the fundamentals of transportation and warehousing, but they’ve gone much beyond that. It’s […]
Louisiana Flooding: Material Handling Equipment Donations Needed for Disaster Response
In response to the floods that devastated Southern & South-West Louisiana in August, Feeding America is in need of material handling equipment donations to replace what was lost at the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank. This critical partner in feeding […]