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This Week in Logistics News (August 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Alphabet-owned drone firm says the two offerings will cover a combined 60,000 homes in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Founded in 2014, Magazino employs around 130 people. The first location is 8555 Preston Road in Frisco, Texas, a suburb Wing has served since 2021. Cellcom, Fiege Logistik, and Körber. 1 deadline.

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Why is a Data Center Like a Supply Chain?

Elementum

They don’t seem too similar, but data centers could benefit from supply chain management. Facebook announced today that it is moving forward with building a fifth data center , with plans to build in Fort Worth, Texas. In 2014, there were an estimated 3 million in the United States alone. million in 2017.

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Warehouses are the next HOT investment triggered by the digital transformation of the supply chain

NC State SCRC

This is a perfect example of how the physics of supply chains, which are often overlooked, are fundamental to understanding and enabling the “digital transformation” that is discussed so often in the press. billion on the shift towards e-commerce. Online shopping in the U.S. is climbing. Several key points emerge here.

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Driving domestic production of critical materials and rare earth elements

Resilinc

How effective Biden’s invocation of the DPA—which followed the administration’s February release of a memo updating its efforts to revitalize domestic manufacturing and supply chains for a broad array of vital materials and products—is an open question. Molycorp went bankrupt in 2014, selling its assets to a Chinese owned firm.