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NRF 2022: 4 Big Session Themes from Retail’s Big Show

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Portland, San Diego, and Cleveland are cited by American Shipper as locations with more capacity to consider. The new infrastructure bill invests $17 billion for shipping ports , but Ruda maintains “We can’t build our way out of this problem. We need to address the data.”. Production-to-Purchase Retail and Supply Chain Planning.

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29 warehouse & automation experts share insights on how warehouse robots will impact industry employment

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It also allows existing employees to spend less time lugging boxes or finding inventory and more time doing the more complex parts of their job that are difficult to automate. Those inventory systems require more attention because of this (a human gig), as do programming and maintenance. A lot depends on what they can do.