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This Week in Logistics News (April 22-26, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Swipe, click, this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Google Spinoff’s Drone Delivery Business First to Get FAA Approval (Bloomberg) Amazon to invest $800 million to make one-day free shipping the standard for Prime members (WSJ – sub. Honestly, this depressed the heck out of me. over distances of up to 12.5

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Tompkins International and One Network Webcast: Explore Taking Supply Chain Visibility to New Heights

Tompkins Blog

Few concepts have generated as much interest within the supply chain community as ‘control tower’ technologies,” explains Mark Zelenak, Vice President of CPG at One Network Enterprises. According to experts, many companies are wondering whether control tower technology systems are worth all the ‘hype.’.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 25-29, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Speaking of learning, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Will Truckers Trade Futures? For Power Tools Sold In Iran. For Power Tools Sold In Iran. The Volkswagen Industrial Cloud: A Manufacturing-Centric Supply Chain Operating Network. Why or why not?