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Driver Shortage, Driverless Vehicles, and Other Supply Chain Curiosities

Logistics Viewpoints

Currently, most driverless opportunities are limited to secure private zones or closed environments, such as warehouses, campus environments or last mile runs from depot to front door. Make no mistake, driverless vehicles are here to stay, driver shortage or not. To learn more, visit [link].

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech July 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

battery production site for Panasonic, and completion of Series D funding round for on demand warehousing provider Flex e. The WSJ report of the announcement noted that the State of Kansas beat out the State of Oklahoma with added incentives and subsidies that includes tax credits and partial rebates of payroll of up to ten percent per year.

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6 River Systems Continues 2020 Momentum Led by Award Wins and New Global Deployment Sites

6 River Systems

Most notably, we expedited our remote deployment protocol plans and introduced enhanced safety protocols to help our customers comply with social distancing recommendations within their warehouses and distribution centers. The RBR50 Innovation Awards highlight leaders in technology and business innovation.

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How to Reduce Shipping Costs: 8 Effective Ways

Ware2Go

Design a Warehouse Network that Gets You Closer to Customers. But the same package sent only 107 miles from Oklahoma City to Tulsa would be Zone 2. SMBs should evaluate their fulfillment network, with the goal of identifying optimal warehouse placements across the country based on historical and projected customer demand.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

In fact, America’s true refund pioneer was born a century before Hsieh, on a farm in Oklahoma. One of his innovations was allowing customers to return anything, no questions asked. Liquidity Services operates eight regional warehouse-size facilities in North America. The initials stand for James Cash.)

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This Week in Logistics News (September 17-21, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Oklahoma grocers set to deploy fleet of autonomous vans for final-mile deliveries (CCJ). Blume Global Introduces a New Digital Era of Growth, Innovation and Value Creation for the Global Supply Chain Ecosystem. Instacart expands ALDI partnership (TechCrunch). Vehicles that operate on the same route cooperate to create optimal flow.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

Oklahoma Sen. Titan builds off over a decade of innovations in mobile robotics at Amazon, and can lift up to two times more weight than Hercules, the most broadly deployed robot within our operations. The pharmacy recently closed a warehouse in Edwardsville, Ill., “Stand your butt up!”