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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

The company created Project Gigaton in 2017 to engage suppliers and other stakeholders up and down the supply chain to reduce carbon emissions. The goal is to reduce or avoid one billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gasses from the global value chain by 2030. The nationwide vacancy rate for industrial real estate was 3.2

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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

In my work with manufacturing companies recently, I am thinking a lot about the need for diagnostic testing. Most companies cannot get to data by customer on orders shipped incomplete to understand root cause analysis. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. The focus is on Imagining Supply Chain 2030. What is different?

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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). In my benchmark survey (Van Hove, 2017), only 25% of survey participants answered yes to the question ‘ We have a relentless focus on only what is important for long term business objectives ’.

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Will Robotics Emerging Technology Improve Logistical Efficiency?

AFFLINK

We’ve automated ourselves out of shopping and shipping. Among other things, the article reports that remotely-operated vessels will be common by 2030, semi-autonomous trucks will probably be common on American roads in five to 10 years, and the number of commercial drones will be 10 times higher in 2021 than 2017.

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10 Trends in Supply Chain Management & Logistics for 2022

Unleashed

In fact, investor funding for this technology has ballooned since 2017 , growing from US$0.1 On-demand crowdsourcing is seen as one potential revolutioniser for shipping, using an Uber or AirBnB-like model but for final mile delivery. Amazon vows to go carbon neutral by 2030. billion to $5.6 billion in 2021.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 8-12, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Trucking costs to halve by 2030, study predicts (LLoyd’s Loading List). Then in December 2016, one of the my predictions for 2017 was that “The Migration from Traditional User Interfaces to Chatbots and Virtual Assistants Begins.”. And this week ShippingEasy announced its integration “with Amazon Alexa to ship with your voice!”

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Click the links below to compare this year's innovations to those from previous years: Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017 : exoskeletons, autonomous forklifts, flying warehouses, last-mile delivery, and more. We hope you enjoy this salute to the best of 2018, and we look forward to even more innovations in 2019. Printer-friendly version.