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Delivery is the Product: Takeaways from Transplace’s Shipper Symposium 2018

Talking Logistics

It’s the reason why more than 300 people attended this year’s Shipper Symposium: to learn about the trends shaping the industry and to discuss how to rewrite the rules for success moving forward. Adrian Gonzalez and Dan Dershem Talking Tech Trends. Here are some of the highlights, beginning with the session I participated in.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 18-22, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Germany, Belgium, Estonia and the U.S., Tech-enabled fulfillment and operations : Manage orders and inventory across distribution centers and suppliers while protecting margins and delighting customers. Here are some details from the article: Starship robots have already covered more than 1,900 miles in the U.K.,

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4 Technology Trends Set to Transform Your eCommerce Business

Vinculum

Retail Industry have been completely transformed during the past few decades due to the emerging trends and updated models. Thanks to the unprecedented distribution of the Internet and evolution of technology for making this successful over the World Wide Web. A key role will aptly be played by these tech-trends we are looking at –.

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What are Dark Stores, and How do they Work? [+ case studies]

Unleashed

If you think it’s just a trend for huge grocery companies, think again: retailers like Nordstrom have leapt aboard, and delivery start-ups have raised billions in funding in recent years. Dark stores do use physical outlets, but these spaces are eCommerce warehouses, distribution centres or micro-fulfilment hubs.

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7 Blockchain Development Trends You Can’t Miss!

Supply Chain Game Changer

It’s a distributed, translated database model with the potential to solve a wide range of internet trust and security challenges. What are the top Blockchain development trends? Other countries—including Japan, Russia, Sweden, and Estonia—are also anticipated to follow suit in the near future. Tokenization.

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Mindmap High-Tech Supply Chain 4.0

Supply Chain Movement

Trends for high-tech industry. The high-tech industry are currently facing a tsunami of external trends. These external trends force high-tech companies to prepare for this unpredictable future: Plan. The impact of trends force companies to make clear trade-offs: Do. Costa Rica. Cote D'ivoire. Czech Republic. El Salvador.

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

And freight costs are continuing to rise, pushed upward by factors such as globalized distribution and unpredictable fuel prices. But these efforts bring temporary, not permanent, relief. How likely are carriers to agree on endless rate cuts? Costa Rica. Cote D'ivoire. Czech Republic. Dominican Republic. El Salvador. Equatorial Guinea.