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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon plans to build delivery robot tech in Finland. Amazon has announced that it plans to develop new technology for its autonomous delivery vehicles in Helsinki, Finland. The engineers will begin by developing 3D software to emulate the “complexities of real life.” It will be interesting to watch the games unfold in silence.

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China’s Export Restrictions on Germanium and Gallium  

Resilinc

In 2022, the US CHIPS and Science Act boosted domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductor chips which led to fewer purchases of semiconductors from China. China has a lot more processing and smelting capacity than any other country. Another preemptive step you can take is to invest in commodity tracking software.

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Frictionless P2P: A Dream or Reality? 

ivalua

Author: Hubert Verweij , Head of Procurement Transformation, Capgemini Invent Sweden and Finland. Nowadays, Procurement practitioners primarily talk about emerging topics like the reduction of scope 3 emissions, supplier-enabled innovation and supply risk management. Procurement as end-to-end process owner .

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Customer Voice: Towards Forecast-based Workforce Optimization

RELEX Solutions

That’s why in 2018, they extended the collaboration by introducing RELEX’s forecast-based workforce optimization solution. Before we introduced RELEX’s workforce solution, our work shifts were quite regimented, and workforce management was based on a structured approach. From manual to optimized workforce management. Tiina Siurua.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

The two new prototypes are both based on the Hummingbird, which Wing says can carry about 2 pounds and has made hundreds of thousands of deliveries in Dallas suburbs, Virginia, Australia, and Finland. Customers in Singapore will also benefit from increased European inbound capacity. East/Gulf Coast ports were up 40.3