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Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014. We define the market as those warehouse automation providers responsible for delivery of the system to the end-user (to eliminate double-counting). Looking back, I estimated the market in 2013 at $6.4 billion in 2019.

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The World’s Most Vulnerable Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology won the Financial Time’s business book of the year award. It also provides a good explanation for why the semiconductor supply chain is the world’s most vulnerable supply chain. technology. It produces the world’s most sophisticated chips.

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Apple’s China Problem

Logistics Viewpoints

I am getting questions from friends and acquaintances about whether the US’s supply chain woes are over. The people I talk to are surprised when I say supply chain challenges are not going to disappear any time soon. In October of 2022, the Biden administration published a tough set of technology export controls.

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The Importance of Transparency in Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

They are demanding more supply chain transparency. What is supply chain transparency? Although transparency sounds like a straight-forward subject, Bateman and Bonanni note, “Less clear is how to define transparency in a supply chain context and the extent to which companies should pursue it.”

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In Chains: How to Approach Human Trafficking in your Supply Chain

Elementum

The process of identifying and penalizing human traffickers in a supply chain is exhaustive and at this point a comprehensive solution seems nearly impossible. In Malaysia, for example, one in three workers are victims of such forced labor.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 17-21, 2014)

Talking Logistics

DHL Supply Chain commits EUR 218m to develop logistics infrastructure in China. Back in June, I wrote about how mobile technologies (along with continuous optimization) are transforming home delivery , which was a topic I had discussed with Andrew Roszko, Senior Vice President at Descartes, earlier this year on the talk show.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. With how quickly new technology, tips and warehouse management techniques are emerging, wouldn’t it be nice to take a page from someone else’s book? Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics.