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This Week in Logistics News (April 30 – May 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Czinger 21C costs $1.7 And now on to this week’s logistics news. The initiative will eliminate 20 million manual scans daily for UPS employees loading its package cars. Using RFID tags will also help UPS in its goal of eliminating $500 million in non-operating costs this year, according to Tomé.

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The Kodiak Story with Don Burnette

The Logistics of Logistics

Kodiak delivers freight daily for its customers between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, operating autonomously on the highway portion of the route, and also provides service between Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast.

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Walmart First to Deliver Driverless Middle Mile

Multichannel Merchant

Network strategies are being reimagined as old models are incapable of meeting the twin imperatives of massive ecommerce demand and supply chain backups. Best Buy, for example, has converted some stores in its hometown of Minneapolis into hybrid facilities by shrinking sales floor space and increasing on-site fulfillment operations.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 6-10, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Ok, enough about concrete; let’s move on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Majority of small fleets yet to comply with ELD mandate (CCJ). UPS Joins Top Alliance To Create Blockchain Standards For Logistics. CLX Logistics Renews Partnership with BluJay Solutions. Bloomberg). How will it impact productivity?

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Supply Chain Market Report – July 2022

Elementum

The economy is careening toward Stagflation While countries all over the world responded to the pandemic in March 2020, companies quickly began to see the cost to produce goods go up. As companies began raising prices to cope with increased costs, consumers started seeing the impact on their own pocketbooks. Peloton cut 3000 employees.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. XPO Logistics to spin off freight brokerage. CEVA Logistics using self-driving trucks to move freight. Amazon , which has struggled to streamline its grocery strategy, is looking at grocery-picking gig workers in a new way. Walmart Canada takes aim at last-mile carbon emissions.

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Why is a Data Center Like a Supply Chain?

Elementum

Facebook announced today that it is moving forward with building a fifth data center , with plans to build in Fort Worth, Texas. billion users might require, and renewable options cut costs in the long-term. But that’s just one example. The number of worldwide data centers is expected to reach a peak of 8.6 The Build-Up.