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Flexible Warehousing with Flexe CEO Karl Siebrecht

The Logistics of Logistics

Karl is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flexe , a company that solves the hardest omnichannel logistics problems for the world’s largest retailers and brands. About Karl Siebrecht Karl Siebrecht is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flexe, a company that solves the hardest omnichannel logistics problems for the world’s largest retailers and brands.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Thanks to omni-channel distribution, 3-D printing, self-service logistics and other avenues of disintermediation, traditional supply chain roles are rapidly being transformed into all-new opportunities. Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more. Self-Service Logistics.

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Claire’s Becomes Latest Retailer to Go Bankrupt

BlueYonder

As soon as the first robot arrived at a FedEx shipping hub in the heart of North Carolina tobacco country early last year, talk of pink slips was in the air. Grubhub and rival Seamless merged in 2013. The Seattle-based company also has opened its own line of bookstores and a convenience-store concept.

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Claire’s Becomes Latest Retailer to Go Bankrupt

BlueYonder

As soon as the first robot arrived at a FedEx shipping hub in the heart of North Carolina tobacco country early last year, talk of pink slips was in the air. Grubhub and rival Seamless merged in 2013. The Seattle-based company also has opened its own line of bookstores and a convenience-store concept.

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Tech Startups Have Eyes on $700 Billion Trucking Industry

GTG Technology Group

TruckerPath, founded in 2013, already accumulated more than $20 million in funding. ” Currently, third party brokers match shipping companies with freight carriers; it has worked this way for years. As of right now, the app has a moderately sized network in Seattle, which it is using to test the app before launch.

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Amazon–Robots Roam the Warehouses

Operations and Supply Chain Management

The Seattle online retailer has outfitted several U.S. At the heart of the robot rollout is Amazon’s relentless drive to compete with the immediacy of shopping at brick-and-mortar retailers by improving the efficiency of its logistics. The company was forced to offer rebates to some customers after delivery delays in December 2013.

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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

Given the swiftly changing logistics environment, those who navigate the new world we live in need a roadmap to guide their actions. The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' annual State of Logistics report attempts to offer just such a map -- accompanied by some timely warnings. The research, done by A.T.