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The Ecommerce Fulfillment Blind Spot with Kyle Bertin

The Logistics of Logistics

Kyle is the CEO and co-founder of Two Boxes , a returns company that develops technology that enables 3PLs and merchants to improve in-warehouse return operations. Like e-commerce and returns, Two Boxes employees are everywhere, with core teams in California and Colorado. The company has secured $4.5

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

VF Corporation (VFC) is a global apparel, footwear and accessories company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. To improve efficiency, they have begun to install warehouse robots from Locus robotics in North America and Europe. The conveyor system is a marvel with 20 diverts to ensure the right goods flow to the right station.

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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

Water levels falling in the Rhine, the Loire, and the Colorado River. A reactive supply chain introduces nervousness into a complex non-linear system. Warehouses are full, and supply chain leaders are using containers as overflow warehouses adding to port snarls. Thirty-one months of supply chain disruption.

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Hurricane season 2024: how to prepare your supply chain

Resilinc

Colorado State University (CSU) forecasts 23 storms, 11 hurricanes, and 5 major hurricanes—the highest prediction they have ever issued. Over the last decade, Resilinc’s 24/7 supply chain monitoring system EventWatch AI has reported an increase in extreme weather disruptions like hurricanes year-over-year.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Founded in 2002 with over 100 consultants and based in Boulder, Colorado , Spinnaker SCA designs and builds agile supply chains for leading brands across Consumer Staples, High Tech, Industrial Manufacturing, Retail & Apparel, Medical Devices, and Distribution Industries. billion in Generative AI start-up Anthropic.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

The company has also taken a tech-driven approach to tackling the issue, by investing in machine learning and improving its proactive controls that automate and broaden its intellectual property protection and counterfeit detection systems. Colorado also adopted the rule but will have a heavy duty truck provision begin in 2027.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 5-9, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Warehouses promised lots of jobs, but robot workforce slows hiring (Los Angeles Times). Nikola Motor Company [also announced] Ryder System, Inc. The Colorado Transportation Department and infrastructure developer Aecom Inc. Truckers applaud move to revert to pre-2013 Hours of Service regulations (Logistics Management).