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This Week in Logistics News (August 4-8, 2014)

Talking Logistics

The bodega and building as it appears today (source: Google Maps). Amazon Same-Day Delivery Selection Grows in New York ( Re/Code ). The post This Week in Logistics News (August 4-8, 2014) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. This Week in News Amazon ARI Network Services C.H.

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

The company launched their platform in 2014. Planners in China rely on different data sources and operate with different business practices than those in North America. You need to model the company’s competitors, end consumers, and the demographics of customers in Texas versus New York.”

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How Big is the Same-Day Delivery Market?

Talking Logistics

Outlines New Developments in Omnichannel Strategy and Technology. Amazon Same-Day Delivery Selection Grows in New York (Re/Code). Source: [link]. Target tries out same-day delivery service in select markets (Retailing Today). Inside Google’s Big Plan to Race Amazon To Your Door (Re/code). Uber Corner Store.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

Oil prices jumped, with Brent rising above $105 a barrel for the first time since 2014, after Russia’s attack on Ukraine exacerbated concerns about disruptions to global energy supply. In terms of trade, these are not critical, single-sourced Tier 1 inputs needed in manufacturing. Brent Rises Above $100.

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Ukraine Conflict Now Tops the List of Supply Chain Risks

Enterra Insights

He wrote, “For supply chain leaders, especially those running global organizations with center-led functional executives in charge of manufacturing, sourcing and logistics, the temptation is to ignore politics as an externality and concentrate instead on the known-knowns of costs, capacity and lead-times. Footnotes. [1] 3] Thomas L.

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Supply Chain Risk Report: Ukraine-Russia Conflict

Resilinc

Oil prices have risen to well over $90 a barrel — their highest levels since 2014 — in recent days as fears of war have grown,” reported the New York Times last week. Disruptions will be both direct and indirect—with the most significant indirect impacts already manifesting in the form of upward pressure on oil and gas prices.

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Rwanda Heads Technology Revolution in Africa

The Network Effect

Source: ReCode.net. Thus, according to the New York Times , one of the world’s smallest and poorest countries, “will be the first… to establish a commercial drone delivery network — putting it ahead of places like the United States.” New York Times. Here’s the Zip in action.

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