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Self-Checkout Turns Customers into Employees and Employees into Security Guards

Enterra Insights

Journalist Chris Gorrie reports, “Walmart’s heavy reliance on self-checkout has necessitated the deployment of workers as makeshift security personnel, actively monitoring customers for potential theft.”[2] Nevertheless, more stringent security measures will continue to be put in place to curtail theft.

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Most desirable logistics location of Europe in 2018

Supply Chain Movement

The Netherlands secured first place based on the results from the large-scale survey among logistics decision-makers within manufacturing and retail companies in Germany. New Caledonia. New Zealand. Papua New Guinea. Micronesia, Federated States of. Moldova, Republic of. Montenegro. Montserrat. Mozambique.

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Inventory Management Strategies of 7 Successful Firms

Unleashed

Samsung has implemented a number of initiatives to secure its supply by fostering long-term relationships, growth and stability with key suppliers and customers. IWAY for supplier management : IWAY is Ikea’s code of conduct for suppliers, setting environmental and social standards for any business that supplies good or services.

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Delivery Drones are Taking Off! (Infographic)

Supply Chain Game Changer

A 2018 study published in Nature Communications revealed that the use of small drones instead of diesel-burning delivery trucks could help tackle climate change by reducing energy consumption as well as the release of greenhouse gases. In 2016, Domino’s delivered the first pizza by drone in 2016 to a New Zealand couple.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 3-7, 2017)

Talking Logistics

The new Mobile Workforce Management platform allows Blackbay’s customers quickly, within hours rather than days, to configure changes to Delivery Connect’s T&L applications ensuring that they meet specific business processes. wants to introduce the system by 2018. Peloton, based in Mountain View, Calif.,

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Freeports: The 2022 Guide

Unleashed

In November 2020, fifteen countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership did just that, creating the world’s largest free trade area that expands from Kazakhstan’s southern borders into Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand. How has the number of freeports worldwide increased over time?

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List of Top 65 Marketplaces Across the Globe in 2019

Vinculum

Ease of shopping, product variety, secure payments and free shipping are some of the reasons that have made online shopping a huge success. In 2018, 1,650 start-ups entered the market through the eMag marketplace. With 52% Y-o-Y increase in its turnover , eMag sold more than 9 million products in 2018. In 2021, over 2.14