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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

Ferrero tells suppliers to stop sending it palm oil from Malaysian company. As I wrote about a few weeks ago, Google’s sister company Wing launched what it calls the first commercial drone delivery in a major metropolitan area. The company partnered with Walgreens to make deliveries in suburban Dallas.

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Go Horizontal!

Supply Chain Shaman

I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985. In our research, we find that when companies out perform, one of the first things that they talk about is success in horizontal processes. Not all companies are at the same level of maturity. This is less than 5%.

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Transformation of Automotive Industry Supply Networks- Size, Resources and Supply Network Scale Matters

Supply Chain Matters

Founded in 2009, with the vision of becoming the next iteration of producer Tesla in technologically innovative EV design, production and distribution logistics, the company spent its initial years in designing and developing what is today the Rivian RiT electrically powered pick-up truck, and the Rivian RiS sport utility vehicle.

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Global Status of the Physical Internet — A Vision for Sustainable, Secure, Resilient Supply Chains

Freightera

Interview with Benoit Montreuil, Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Director, Physical Internet Center; Director, Supply Chain & Logistics Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Now planning for complete Physical Internet system by 2030. Interviewed by Eric Beckwitt, Founder and CEO, Freightera.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

In its latest effort, the company announced that will add Stellantis’ all-electric Ram ProMaster van to its fleet when the vehicle launches in 2023. The company is enacting contingency plans to minimize service disruptions, including diverting packages for its Ground division to deliver.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

Apple calls on global supply chain to decarbonize by 2030. The companies also announced that Amazon had hired Hawaiian to operate 10 Airbus A330-300 converted freighters between airports near Amazon fulfillment centers for at least eight years. Overall revenue for the Atlanta-based delivery company rose 4.2%

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Facing Hard Times, Shippers Find Innovative Solutions

Intelligent Audit

From contractor controversies to rising fuel costs, logistics professionals across the transportation industry are turning to innovative solutions to persistent problems. According to reporting from Transportation Topics, the contract “ would give the aircraft mechanics a 3.3% White House Port and Supply Chain Envoy Gen.