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Walmart Making Significant Bet on Warehouse Robotics

Supply Chain Matters

This has had special significance as overall online shopping volumes decline from prior pandemic driven volumes, and where the thresholds for the ability to sustain “ Free Shipping ” offerings are growing larger because of rising and unsustainable costs.

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The Christmas Tree Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

and in 2017 over 21 million artificial trees were bought. the majority of trees are grown in Oregon, followed by North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Washington. Given that most of the artificial Christmas trees are made in China, and there are lengthy ocean shipping and receiving delays into the U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 25-29, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Target Restock leverages Target’s store network to get digital orders packed and shipped swiftly. [It] In mid-October, when Target Restock expands to the San Francisco metro, the service will reach more than 70 million people in 11 major markets, or about one-fifth of the U.S. population, the company said Thursday.

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Connecting Canada, the US and Europe

Cathy Roberson

A number of value-added services are also offered including dangerous goods shipping, same-day/hotshot service, and residential delivery. Combined, the former acquisitions provide GLS with parcel and freight delivery services in California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Utah. International cross-border.

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Broker Avoids Ransomware Disaster

DAT Solutions

The conference was held in Portland, Oregon, a short distance from his brokerage, Columbia Fresh Transportation Services. "At I would have had to order a new server, had it shipped to us, and have my IT guy reload all the software," he said. "It That's the bad news. It would have taken 4 or 5 days minimum.".

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This Week in Logistics News (March 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

However, in 2017 U.S. Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Oregon also are moving to decarbonize drayage. The company will focus its efforts on the Northeast region of the country, but its bikes will be available for shipping across the continental U.S.

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29 warehouse & automation experts share insights on how warehouse robots will impact industry employment

6 River Systems

What I hope to start seeing more of are things like the exosuit that gained Lowe’s a lot of acclaim in 2017. “Warehouse robots are becoming more prevalent as service level demands get tighter… ” …and increase to meet these service levels, like same day shipping. A lot depends on what they can do.