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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- October 10 2023

Supply Chain Matters

In its reporting, Bloomberg indicated that Amazon has long practiced a strategy of taking stakes in business areas deemed a priority including a grocery chain, cargo airlines, EV powered parcel vans and others. Morgan Growth Equity Partners and Index Ventures. Each relationship adds risks like data security, privacy, and fraud.

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Shopify, Flexport and Freightos in Supply Chain Tech Related News

Supply Chain Matters

Existing shareholders in Freightos include SGX Group (the Singapore Exchange Limited ), FedEx Corporation , a number of major airlines, including Qatar Airways , IAG Cargo , the cargo division of International Airlines Group , LATAM Airlines Group. The tech company reportedly raised $80 million in the transaction.

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Is Hyperloop the Next Great Supply Chain Technology?

Kinaxis

The proposed first route between Los Angeles and San Francisco would cut travel times from 4 hours to 35 minutes. The CEO of the company behind the test (Hyperloop One) estimates that the system will be transporting cargo by 2019 and passengers by 2021. 1126km / h).

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

For the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, October’s total cargo volume broke the all-time record for the month. And in today’s Wall Street Journal, there’s an article highlighting how “a San Francisco-based automated logistics firm called Zipline International Inc. jump from the same month last year.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

Walmart Canada piloted the solution in January 2021 and used supplier feedback to hone the system. billion in chemicals cargo a week. They cited examples such as Los Angeles, the New York Metro region, the Puget Sound region, San Francisco Bay Area, Austin, San Diego, Washington D.C., Boston, and Chicago.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech- June 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

San Francisco -based Onera provides retail technology that connects inventory across siloed systems and transforms them into a single, real-time source of inventory status. This column featured details of that acquisition in a November 2021 update. billion acquisition in December of 2021 in an all-cash tender offer.

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Facing Hard Times, Shippers Find Innovative Solutions

Intelligent Audit

in 2021, is sure to place further pressure on inflation-weary shippers. Supply Chain Dive , reporting on continued White House initiatives, said, “ efforts will remain focused on data collection and identifying potential incentives to encourage shippers and carriers to move cargo faster. ”. Gas Prices Rise in Parts of U.S.,