{"id":12405,"date":"2018-06-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/news-insights\/articles\/supply-chain-logistics-recap-61-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T16:49:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T16:49:54","slug":"supply-chain-logistics-recap-61-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/us\/news-insights\/articles\/supply-chain-logistics-recap-61-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply chain and logistics recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14050 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/LEAN-promo-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s a busy time for Atlanta because it&#8217;s graduation season (our school year in Georgia and the south typically ends in May) we are busy following up on our spring leads from Ops Summit and MODEX. We&#8217;re collaborating with clients and other Argon &amp; Co offices to help clients in many areas of the business and we have a couple of papers we&#8217;re working on covering different topics.<\/p>\n<p>What area in your company needs analysis or help? Please <a href=\"cris.maddox@crimsonandco.info\">contact us<\/a> and let us know.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Need LEAN training for yourself or your company? On June 22, 2018<\/strong> in Atlanta, join Yoel Yohan from Argon &amp; Co North America and Peter J. Sherman with <a href=\"http:\/\/riverwoodassociates.com\">Riverwood Associates<\/a> to learn LEAN. This is a great opportunity to learn and successfully apply LEAN principles and techniques to your career and company. To sign up for the next<a href=\"https:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/eventReg?oeidk=a07efcv62i088100d9a&amp;oseq=&amp;c=&amp;ch=\"> LEAN Boot Camp (June 22, 2018) in Atlanta, register here. <\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>There is a limit. <\/strong>Amazon has begun to ban some <a href=\"http:\/\/logistics.cmail20.com\/t\/d-l-bmkkdd-ydullidhjk-t\/\">shoppers for infractions such as returning too many items<\/a>.\u00a0 Consumers want liberal return policies and because of this, Amazon has been figuring out way to monitor them in order to stop shoppers from abusing the policies. We will see more from other retailers as Amazon puts more constraints in place.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Good news for Peak Season this year and beyond<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/dockworkers-east-and-gulf-coast-ports-reach-tentative-labor-agreement-1528322720?mod=djemlogistics_h\">as an agreement has been reached between dockworkers and operators at U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports<\/a> and the International Longshoremen&#8217;s Association. Ahead of the September 2018 deadline, the six-year agreement, announced Wednesday by the International Longshoremen\u2019s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance Ltd., said the terms of the agreement were &#8220;unanimously approved&#8221; by 200 delegates of the ILA\u2019s 65,000 maritime-worker membership.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"intro--medium\"><strong>As of September 8, 2020, Crimson &amp; Co (formerly The Progress Group\/TPG) has rebranded as Argon &amp; Co following the successful merger with Argon Consulting in April 2018.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12797,"template":"","categories":[146],"class_list":["post-12405","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-supply-chain-recaps"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Supply chain and logistics recap - Argon &amp; Co<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/us\/news-insights\/articles\/supply-chain-logistics-recap-61-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supply chain and logistics recap - Argon &amp; Co\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While it&#8217;s a busy time for Atlanta because it&#8217;s graduation season (our school year in Georgia and the south typically ends in May) we are busy following up on our spring leads from Ops Summit and MODEX. 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