Inbound Logistics | January 2023

NOTED

> SEALED DEALS

> GREEN SEEDS

• Apparel company Gymshark (above) is turning to DSV for international multimodal transport solutions. The 3PL will consolidate shipments under one forwarder from nine manufacturers to distribution centers in the UK, Belgium, Australia, Canada, and the United States. • As it readies for its spring 2023 relaunch following bankruptcy in 2020, retailer Century 21 tapped Fillogic to assist with e-commerce and store-based fulllment, reverse logistics/returns, forward-staging inventory, and nal-mile delivery. • Manufacturing company Miele selected 2PL Advisors to provide transportation advisory services and conduct its 2023 less- than-truckload and truckload bid process in the United States. • DHL Supply Chain will lead operations for fashion retailer boohoo group’s rst distribution center in the United States—located in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. The 1.1 million- square-foot distribution center is expected to open in early 2023 and will offer next-day service to the New York City metro area. • The Volkswagen Group chose Ivalua’s procurement software platform to digitize its global indirect procurement processes across its entire brand portfolio—including 120 production plants in 19 European countries and 10 countries in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. • University of Miami Health System implemented Tecsys’ Elite Healthcare platform to power the University Distribution Center’s (UDC) consolidated supply chain operations. Tecsys software centralizes logistics operations and enables data-driven analytics for the UDC.

n Gebrüder Weiss committed to gradually reducing its carbon footprint by 10% per year to zero emissions by 2030. To that end, the company will examine CO2 emissions at each of its 180 locations (above) . n Upping its original order of 60, Schneider will now purchase 92 Class 8 battery-electric vehicles from Daimler Truck North America for use at its intermodal operations in Southern California. n Lufthansa Cargo began using lighter transport nets to secure cargo pallets (below) . The company says the new nets, made of a special fiber, save more than 50% in weight when compared with conventional nets, which reduces CO2 emissions.

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