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This Week in Logistics News (April 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

Employees at an Amazon warehouse on New York’s Staten Island voted late last week to join a union, which is a painful defeat for the e-commerce giant that has aggressively fought unionization efforts in recent years. Israel Aircraft Industries is remodeling older Air Canada passenger jets to carry heavy freight.

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Takeaways from the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference

Kinaxis

During her keynote speech, Dana Stiffler, research VP at Gartner shared statistics highlighting how hard it is to find professionals who have the supply chain domain competence and strong knowledge of AI/ML technologies in the greater Chicago area. Population of greater Chicago ~ 3,600,000. of these, those with AI/ML skills ~ 35.

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1MRobotics Focuses on Nano Fulfillment

Multichannel Merchant

“If you want to cover Chicago or Manhattan, you determine how fast you want customers to receive their orders, calculate how many units you needed to cover an area, and we manufacture and ship it.” . “Multiply that by scale, and it doesn’t add up. That’s the pain we’re solving for.”