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This Week in Logistics News (January 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, which launched in April 2022, is still intent on finding and investing in startups that can help the e-commerce giant deliver goods faster, while improving the experience of customers as well as the employees who work in its warehouses and logistics departments. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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5 Reasons to Leave Your 3PL with Shane Hanson

The Logistics of Logistics

Shane began his career working with the Wal-Mart Innovation Network, a group dedicated to providing market feasibility analysis to inventors and innovators. Shane completed his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Missouri State University while working with the Wal-Mart Innovation Network.

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7 Innovative Warehouse Management Technologies to Adopt

GlobalTranz

The technology is ideal for retail warehouses that deal with apparel, sporting goods, personal care items, convenience foods, groceries and general merchandise. This is a hands-free technology that uses spoken commands for picking, putting, receiving, replenishing and warehouse shipping functions. Lower cost operation.

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Amazon supply chain management pushes retail to the limit

Kinaxis

Amazon supply chain management is driving innovation and change at a pace that’s putting the pressure on other businesses to find a way to keep up, or fold. It has leased 20 Boeing 767 aircraft to shuttle goods around the US, and helped ship at least 150 cargo containers from China since October 2016.

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Achieve Higher Fulfillment Rates to Improve Customer Satisfaction 

Logility

Increasing numbers of consumers will abandon their shopping cart if they can’t get things when they want them, and this goes across verticals that include apparel, food, and beverages. Even among those who don’t expect same-day delivery, 80% expect same-day shipping. It’s on a ship somewhere, you guess. Remember Blackberry ?

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Welcome to A Day at ProMat 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

HAI Robotics , with its US headquarters in Fremont, Callfornia, is a finalist for Best Innovation of an Existing Product. I was informed of a recent customer case – an apparel retailer located in Denmark. Lucas Systems is a finalist in the Most Innovative IT Product category. So, I looked a little foolish to anyone watching.

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A Sneak Peek into the Innovation Hub at FOCUS

BlueYonder

FOCUS brings retail, warehouse and manufacturing professionals together to share best practices and hear how industry leaders are delivering real results with the help of JDA’s innovations. The kiosk will have apparel and footwear, as well as CPG products displayed within a physical double sided floor gondola.