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Zipline Adds Drone Delivery for GNC, Two Other Clients

Multichannel Merchant

Drone delivery provider Zipline is adding three new clients including health and wellness retailer GNC, pharmaceutical logistics firm Associated Couriers and Seattle-based eatery Pagliacci Pizza, expanding its footprint and building on its success delivering vaccines in Africa during the pandemic and working with retail giant Walmart.

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The Opportunity — and Challenges — for Digital Transformation in MENA

ivalua

Organizations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) were no exception — and these companies were particularly aggressive in their response. With the UAE promising 100% 5G coverage by 2025 along with investments in IoT, AI and blockchain technologies, the road to digital transformation will be less bumpy for organizations in the region.

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The reality of green energy: “green metal” supply chains won’t be able to keep up

NC State SCRC

GM has committed to 30 new electric vehicles by 2025. There are other risks as well: logistics in these regions (especially Africa and Chile). Road density in Africa is among the world’s lowest, and only 800,000 km of the 2.8M If Africa’s logistics simply rose to the global average, it would boost flows by 12%.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

This year, with the LA Rams being Super Bowl champs, Good360 said it will ship thousands of “unsellable” Bengals-branded hats, T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, COVID-19 masks, and scarves to struggling people in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And now on this week’s logistics news.

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ERP Aids Your Sustainability Initiatives

QAD

In 2020, Biogen committed to transitioning to an all-electric vehicle fleet by 2025 and joined the EV100 partnership to help catalyze change. Saint-Gobain highlighted the avoidance of over 10 million tons of virgin raw materials (sand, gypsum), in their 2020 report. . Sustainability Objectives for Manufacturers.

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sust[AI]nability

Enterra Insights

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), limiting global warming to less than 1.5 ”[4]. What are companies doing? Obviously, in this short article, I can’t discuss the many efforts currently underway by corporations across the world.

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Trends 2021: Megatrends, Part Two

Enterra Insights

They suggest looking at Mexico, Poland, Turkey, Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines. 1] “ World’s Top Global Mega Trends To 2025 and Implications to Business, Society and Cultures ,” Frost & Sullivan, 2020. [2] Footnotes. [1]

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