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Home Delivery Robots: Last Mile Gamechangers

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to deploying robots, warehouse technology is more established, as the use of robots within warehouses is set to grow significantly. Warehouse labor shortages will continue to be the main growth driver for autonomous mobile robots. Robots continue to be a larger part of global supply chains.

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Extreme weather is risky business for supply chains

Resilinc

To provide faster analyses, climate scientists from Europe, the United States and India partnered in 2014 with the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre to form World Weather Attribution. 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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8 Popular eCommerce Sites in Singapore

Vinculum

Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and China have been its main markets in the past few years. Its series A in November 2014 was worth US$6 million, attracting investors like 500 Startups, Rakuten Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Darius Cheung, and Golden Gate Ventures. Final Thoughts.

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

6 River Systems

With how quickly new technology, tips and warehouse management techniques are emerging, wouldn’t it be nice to take a page from someone else’s book? Boot Barn @bootbarn In 2016, Boot Barn improved operations at its distribution center in Fontana, California by implementing HighJump’s Warehouse Advantage WMS.

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List of Top 65 Marketplaces Across the Globe in 2019

Vinculum

With 24×7 availability, Fulfilled by Sears (FBS) is an order fulfillment service from Sears that manages warehousing, pick/packing and shipping of customer orders for your business. Launched in 2014, Kilimall operates in Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya.

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

After years of declining revenues in European logistics services, the business started to stabilise in 2013/2014. Taiwan, Province of China. However, Technavio’s analysts now forecast the 3PL market in Europe to grow at a CAGR of 2.87% over the period 2014-2019. Globally, warehousing is outsourced by 67%. South Africa.