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Home Delivery Robots: Last Mile Gamechangers

Logistics Viewpoints

Starship Technologies was launched in 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahit Heinla and Janus Friis. Over the past five years, the company has expanded its footprint and its home delivery robots have made more than 200,000 deliveries in the cities of San Jose, Santa Monica, Denver, and Dallas, as well as Taipei, Taiwan, and Medellin, Columbia.

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Extreme weather is risky business for supply chains

Resilinc

Climate change first arose as a topic in supply chain management because most of the greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted by OEMs and large retailers are produced by supplier and logistics firms. The results were sobering: 93% of the sites in China and Taiwan were experiencing increases in climate variability consistent with IPCC forecasts.

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Google Robots and the Rewiring of Automation

MIT Supply Chain

The article also draws on the recent Supply Chain @ MIT blog post Crossroads 2014: Dances with Robots, about new advances in scheduling robots on the factory floor. Moreover, the online giant is collaborating with Taiwan-based contract manufacturer Foxconn on the development of robot systems.

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COP21 – Freight and Climate Change

Freightos

A quick check showed that shipping the TV from Taiwan to Nashville (ocean & trucking) led to about 6.7 Since joining the EPA SmartWay program in 2008, Penske Logistics has improved fuel economy by 5 percent, reduced idle time by 16 percent and lowered CO2 emissions on a gram/ton-mile basis by 24 percent. kg of carbon emissions.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics. Coyote Logistics @CoyoteLogistics Coyote Logistics prides itself on its innovative logistics and supply chain philosophy.

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List of Top 65 Marketplaces Across the Globe in 2019

Vinculum

Launched in 2014, Kilimall operates in Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya. Founded in 2010, Ezbuy has expanded its marketplace from China to USA, Taiwan, Korea and Local. With over 100 logistic partners , Lazada can easily help you sell across the SEA countries. It operates in Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, China and Hong Kong.

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Supply Chain Management:Headline for the 2012 Holiday Buying.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Logistics and Distribution. The highly populated Northeastern United States was impacted by super storm Sandy which had some significant impacts on electrical power interruption, delays in delivery of inbound holiday goods as well as to transportation and logistics infrastructure needs. January 2014. Communication Services.