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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

Roughly the size of a small cooler, Amazon Scout vehicles can transport small packages along sidewalks at walking pace. Amazon said the development center in Helsinki will work alongside Amazon staff at the Amazon Scout R&D lab in Seattle, as well as teams in Tubingen, Germany, and Cambridge.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 10 – 16)

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The collapse of a section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia will cause “major disruption” in the region just as the summer travel season begins, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. The agreement paused dockworker job actions potentially through the end of this week.

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When craft beer becomes big beer: 5 tips to boost your microbrew supply chain

DELMIA Quintiq

alone, the latest being Seattle-based Elysian in February. Growing volumes require better planning; production, stock, transport and demand planning will get increasingly complex over time as data becomes more comprehensive. More recently, SAB Miller picked up London’s Meantime to enter the UK craft beer scene. The result?

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This Week in Logistics News (September 28 – October 2, 2015)

Talking Logistics

enVista Unveils New Direct Store Delivery Solution for the Beverage Industry. Amazon Flex is available now in Seattle. Here are some details from the press release: Same Day TMS offers the same features that any shipper would expect from a transportation solution. LLamasoft Secures $50 Million in Funding from Goldman Sachs.

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Amazon Go and the Future of Sentient Buildings: An Analysis

Supply Chain Brain

And they have branched out into other areas such as dominating the cloud infrastructure market with their AWS cloud services, a broad array of logistics/transportation services and assets, and bricks-and-mortar retailing with their Whole Foods acquisition and Amazon Go. I visited the Amazon Go store while I was in Seattle recently.

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3 Technology Companies Disrupting Shipping

FLEXE

FLEXE , Flexport and Convoy –three technology companies adding flexibility to the supply chain–,recently hosted the first Peak Logistics breakfast in Seattle, Washington. So Amazon Cloud Services, most of it is probably in Seattle. The speakers cover everything from air and ocean freight to trucking and warehousing.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 6 – 12)

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A bipartisan bill in Congress could boost the prospects for women’s careers in transportation , at a time when female airplane pilots, truck drivers, train conductors, and ship captains retain a slim minority of jobs in the sector. The purchases are contingent upon approval by the US Department of Transportation, ATSG said.