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The 2016 Techgistics Year in Review

Techgistics

2016 was an incredible year for tech in logistics as companies both large and small are working on some transformative technologies not just for logistics, but for society as a whole. Here’s a few interesting tech advancements in 2016 that were important for the year, but could also point to what’s to come in the near and long-term future.

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

Furthermore, the notion of Sustainable Supply Chain Management is often linked with social responsibility or environmental management (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016). This will aim at reducing environmental impact from the acquisition of raw materials to the final use and disposal of the product (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016). 2016, March 16).

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Zipline Adds Drone Delivery for GNC, Two Other Clients

Multichannel Merchant

Drone delivery provider Zipline is adding three new clients including health and wellness retailer GNC, pharmaceutical logistics firm Associated Couriers and Seattle-based eatery Pagliacci Pizza, expanding its footprint and building on its success delivering vaccines in Africa during the pandemic and working with retail giant Walmart.

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Delivery Drones are Taking Off! (Infographic)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Recent years have seen a flourishing interest in the use of drone technology to deliver packages. Environmental Benefits The average truck delivery of a package creates about 1kg of greenhouse gas emissions. Prime Air successfully delivered its first parcel to Cambridge, England in December 2016. The Rise of The Delivery Drone.

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sust[AI]nability

Enterra Insights

For illustrative purposes, I will discuss some efforts by consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies currently underway. 8] Richard Evans and Jim Gao, “ DeepMind AI Reduces Google Data Centre Cooling Bill by 40% ,” DeepMind Blog, 20 July 2016. ”[4]. What are companies doing? Footnotes. [1]

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Reducing Food Waste

Elementum

trillion per year, about the same as the 2016 GDP of the United Kingdom. In developing countries, food loss is significantly higher in the early stages of production mainly due to poor storage, packaging, and transport facilities as well as inefficient harvesting and processing techniques. Packaging company It’s Fresh!

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Agriculture, Logistics, and Advance Technologies

Enterra Insights

Bananas can come from Philippines, Africa, South/Latin America. 1] Clarisse Magnin, “ How big data will revolutionize the global food chain ,” McKinsey & Company, August 2016. [2] ” BBC News, 25 November 2016. [3] ” The Breakthrough , 7 December 2016. [4] ”[4]. in developed ones.”