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The Future of Retail Supply Chain: What’s in Store?

Logistics Bureau

These agents might triage returned items and buy/sell them, return them to a retailer’s local store or ship them directly back to suppliers, depending on which proves to be the most cost-effective option for the retailer. Except that is, when they are given a choice between free next-day delivery and same-day at a premium.

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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

If things don't change, and we continue up this progression, by 2026, we will be at 170,000 drivers short. According to one software executive, a major stumbling block is the extraordinary growth of data systems is expected to process. Science Fiction Becomes Real.