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Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014. In my own defense, things kind of took off after 2014. I will soon be publishing the 2021 base-year study with a five-year forecast through 2026. Robotics and automation are key innovations for the future of supply chain.”.

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How IoT Improves Consumer Packaged Goods Value Chain

Savi

Agile supply chain operations, especially in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, are using IoT and end-to-end shipment visibility software to outperform competitors with better service while keeping lower inventory levels. This shift is hard to handle because the CPG industry spends at least 5% of revenue on transportation.

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Where Have The Drivers Gone?

AFFLINK

Flash forward just a few years to 2014 and that number had skyrocketed to 38,000. The most immediate impact of the truck driver shortage (beyond the shortage itself) has to do with its effect on supply chains everywhere. Those "things" need to be transported via truck, yet the industry lacks the capacity to do so.

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

Provenance

Interested in understanding how supply chain transparency could benefit your business? It is forecasted that by 2026, demand will mainly be linked to the rise in clean energy technology, in particular for neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets –– critical components for electric and hybrid vehicles as well as wind turbines.

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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

the supply chain. The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' annual State of Logistics report attempts to offer just such a map -- accompanied by some timely warnings. If things don't change, and we continue up this progression, by 2026, we will be at 170,000 drivers short. The research, done by A.T.