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Amazon | April 08, 2020

National labor union leaders sent a letter to Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, April 1 demanding safety improvement for U.S. warehouse workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The group included the AFL-CIO; the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The unions called for the "swift" reinstatement of Chris Smalls, a worker at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island the company said was terminated for violating soci...

Med-Tech Innovation | February 06, 2020

The Edge4Health is being rolled out to more than 60 NHS organisations and will be used by around 30,000 NHS employees. Bringing a familiar, consumer-style experience to NHS procurement for the first time and making purchasing easier and more transparent, the platform now also enables suppliers to the NHS to check and improve their cybersecurity, thanks to a dial indicating whether their rating is good, average or bad. By clicking on the dial, suppliers can download a report that provides a detai...

PROCUREMENT AND SOURCING,LOGISTICS

Omni Logistics | September 08, 2022

Omni Logistics, a technology-driven provider of global multimodal logistics solutions and specialized services, announced the opening of new warehouse and cross-dock facilities in Nashville, TN and Portland, OR. The announcement follows the recent opening of Omni Logistics' new three-building logistics campus and a separate, renewables-powered corporate headquarters in Dallas, new offices in Phoenix, and extensive new warehouse and cross-dock facilities in San Francisco and Philadelphi...

LOGISTICS

Pharmaceutical Technology | December 28, 2020

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has constrained pharmaceutical organizations to reconsider their supply chains including reshoring manufacturing of APIs, intermediates, and different products. GlobalData has led an overview to evaluate the significant business supply chain worries for pharma organizations in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The organizations were arranged into two classes with the end goal of the overview – organizations with predominantly promoted dr...