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Flexible Warehousing with Flexe CEO Karl Siebrecht

The Logistics of Logistics

Prior to co-founding Flexe, Karl was CEO of AdReady, a Seattle-based advertising technology company. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Flexe brings deep logistics expertise and enterprise-grade technology to deliver innovative eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution and network capacity programs to the Fortune 500.

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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

ports to make up the current backlog of ships and container inventory, the standoff’s impact is expected to be more far-reaching than initially thought. The re-routing trend has accelerated in recent months as many ships have lined up along the West Coast waiting for ports to resume operations.

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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

ports to make up the current backlog of ships and container inventory, the standoff’s impact is expected to be more far-reaching than initially thought. The re-routing trend has accelerated in recent months as many ships have lined up along the West Coast waiting for ports to resume operations.

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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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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more. It will allow for the automation of more complex warehousing tasks, such as unloading shipping containers and picking packets or individual e-commerce orders. Warehouse Automation. Media Type. Privacy Settings. anonymous user.

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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.