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This Week in Logistics News (June 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

UPS said a trial run is focused on New York City and in several cities in Europe. The company, in its quest to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025 has also been investing in electric vehicles as well as other alternative fuel sourced vehicles.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

Design: make all primary consumer packaging recyclable by 2025 and use 50 percent recycled material in our packaging by 2030. Autonomous vehicles continue to evolve with improved technology making autonomous supply chains closer to reality. The ongoing freight backups at maritime ports is disrupting global supply chains.

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Mastering Last Mile Logistics Remains a Challenge

Enterra Insights

Logistics providers probably look longingly on the days when the last mile of the supply chain primarily meant delivering goods to the store in which they were sold. He writes, “If you are an e-commerce merchant, your supply chain might stretch thousands of miles. ” Supply Chain 24/7 , 26 October 2017. [6]

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JDA Reimagines Retail at NRF 2017

BlueYonder

Add in the full force of digital disruption and we are now seeing the store re-invented, the supply chain recalibrated and customer experience being transformed. This can be disruptive for retailers as online penetration is expected to double over the next decade, from around 15 percent of sales today, to 30 percent in 2025.

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