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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

The evolution towards autonomous planning has gained speed over the last two years, and we already see businesses moving from human-in-the-loop decision-making to fully autonomous decisions on daily operational plans such as store replenishment, warehouse procurement, transportation planning, production planning, and order fulfillment.

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Technology – Shopify and Panasonic

Supply Chain Matters

Online commerce platform provider Shopify , often compared to Amazon in the ability to support small and mid-sized businesses create and maintain an online shipping presence, announced thi9s week its intent to acquire end-to-end online logistics San Francisco based fulfillment provider Deliverr for a reported $2.1 billion.

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Shopify, Flexport and Freightos in Supply Chain Tech Related News

Supply Chain Matters

That includes the acquisition of collaborative warehouse robotics provider 6 River Systems in 2019, and online shipping fulfilment services provider Deliverr in May of last year. The Israeli based company reportedly handled 668,000 transactions in 2022, representing a 154 percent increase from 2021.

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Top 12 New Logistics Startup Companies Making Noise

ShipBob

Warehousing and storage. Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, PayPal Ventures Inventory Planner With Inventory Planner, businesses are able to do inventory forecasting, create purchase orders, identify trends, and manage stock for multiple warehouses. Brands can connect products, sales channels, warehouses, workflows, reports, and more.

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As Inventories and Capacity Expansion Grew Too Quickly in 2022, Customers are Forcing Suppliers to Bear the Brunt of Optimistic Forecasts

NC State SCRC

However, I’ve been hearing more and more stories about how the rapid over-expansion of many brands and retailers in 2021 has proven to result in all kinds of problems, specifically around additional inventory, excess capacity, and over-expansion of the workforce. If they did not agree, their business relationship would be terminated.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

Warehouse demand undeterred by economic turbulence in third quarter. Walmart Canada piloted the solution in January 2021 and used supplier feedback to hone the system. Founded in 2018, Pickle Robot tackled a number of warehouse challenges using industrial robots built on core AI software, computer vision, and advanced sensors.

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

Talking Logistics

And in today’s Wall Street Journal, there’s an article highlighting how “a San Francisco-based automated logistics firm called Zipline International Inc. In-depot / in-warehouse management. is working with the Rwandan government to deliver blood and vaccines by drone on demand.” Watch the short video below for how it works.