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ToolsGroup and Optilon Celebrate 15 Years (and Counting) of Partnership and Supply Chain Delivery Excellence

ToolsGroup

Over 60 companies have benefited from the close collaboration and supply chain expertise of these two industry powerhouses – who show no signs of slowing down. With offices in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, Optilon helps their customers leverage resources where they generate the most value.

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Kappahl Selects ToolsGroup to Support Its Thriving and Growing Fashion Brand

ToolsGroup

With approximately 340 brick-and-mortar stores and a bustling ecommerce site, the retailer offers responsibly-produced, everyday fashion to customers in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Poland, and the UK. That’s why we’re trusted by leading companies like Abercrombie & Fitch, Co., Bulgari, and Kappahl.

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The Race for Last Mile Drones

Logistics Viewpoints

However, more and more companies are exploring the use of last mile drones, hoping to bring down the cost of deliveries while improving customer service. Wing is a subsidiary of Alphabet, the holding company for Google and Waymo. Here are six last mile drones to be on the lookout for, in no particular order.

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DiManEx contributes to Digital Spare Parts Research Led by Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

DiManEx

On average, engineers waste 10-15% of their time trying to tackle spare parts supply issues, and companies tend to spend up to 10% of their budget on unnecessarily duplicated parts. A total of 175 participants from dozens of companies participated in the project. There’s a huge potential for supply chain optimization in this area.

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Charge Me Up! Energy Storage Development – A Fast Emerging Technology Needed for Sustainability

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

When was the last time you ordered food from a company using an app on your phone? It may not sound “high” tech – but it is new – and it is very attractive for companies that want to store energy when it is being generated in abundance and then later get the energy’s heat back. Charge Me Up! by Timothy Foote , Founder of Susymbio.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

Google’s parent company) subsidiary named Wing has developed a fleet of new drone prototypes designed to more efficiently deliver packages ranging from small pill bottles to items weighing as much as 7 pounds. The Hummingbird has made hundreds of thousands of deliveries in Dallas suburbs, Virginia, Australia and Finland.

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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. This was part of the reason the company missed its 2008 goal to reduce aircraft emissions by 20 percent by the end of 2020. Descartes acquires GreenMile.