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Retail Apocalypse Predicted to Continue

Enterra Insights

Back in 2017, Bloomberg journalists Matt Townsend ( @matt_townsend ), Jenny Surane ( @jennysurane ), Emma Orr ( @emmajorr ), and Christopher Cannon ( @homiedonttweet ), predicted the retail apocalypse was just beginning.[3] “As a result,” Wigglesworth wrote, “many big retailers are shuttering stores across the US.”

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Why the Great Driver Shortage Is Now Top of Mind for Shippers & a Driver of a Capacity Crunch

GlobalTranz

At the same time, carriers have turned to leaner operations to keep costs down, and the transportation industry is ready to implode with a capacity crunch that lasts well into 2018 and may only get worse from there. Now, the driver shortage is more than just a slight hiccup in the industry.

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Worker Shortages and More Pose a Challenge to Freight Companies

Elementum

According to Plunkett Research, transportation revenues in 2017 reached over $1 billion in the U.S. Today, trucking, shipping, air shipping, and other logistics services are all experiencing disruption: As consumer expectations evolve, businesses are constantly pressured to deliver high-quality goods in the shortest amount of time.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

IBP can support a company’s vision by positively influencing its values and behaviors, thus actively shaping the company’s culture (Van Hove, 2017). IBP can support a company’s vision by positively influencing its values and behaviors, thus actively shaping the company’s culture (Van Hove, 2017).

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Worker Shortages and More Pose a Challenge to Freight Companies

Elementum

According to Plunkett Research, transportation revenues in 2017 reached over $1 billion in the U.S. Today, trucking, shipping, air shipping, and other logistics services are all experiencing disruption: As consumer expectations evolve, businesses are constantly pressured to deliver high-quality goods in the shortest amount of time.

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Why Taxing Automation is a Bad Idea

Talking Logistics

Late last year, a San Francisco politician launched a statewide campaign to raise money for a California ballot that would penalize private enterprise for embracing automation in the workplace. If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you’d think that we’d tax the robot at a similar level. Certainly, there will be taxes that relate to automation.”.

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Where Have The Drivers Gone?

AFFLINK

In the digital world that we're now living in where buying a particular product is as simple as clicking a computer mouse a few times, many people don't realize how many of the goods we consume are delivered from businesses to consumers by way of our nation's highways. There is also a lack of not just drivers, but QUALIFIED drivers.