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Visibility 2.0: Accelerating the Customer Experience with Ron Richardson

The Logistics of Logistics

Turvo is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Dallas, Texas, and Hyderabad, India. Next, technology firms developed apps that were downloaded on to the truck driver’s phone. The phone apps were improvement, however, it was limited because not every driver wanted to download the app.

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The Race for Last Mile Drones

Logistics Viewpoints

Once a customer downloads the app and registers their backyard, they can place orders from a partner network of restaurants. Nearly five years ago, San Francisco based company began using delivery drones for moving medical supplies to health clinics in Rwanda.

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Oracle OpenWorld 2018 Logistics Sessions Wrap up

Oracle SCM

Oracle OpenWorld took place at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, and amongst the vast array of keynotes and educational sessions were seven logistics sessions. If you're interested in viewing that presentation, you can download it here. The presentation deck is here.

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5 Top Online Courses For Financial Modeling!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Udemy was created in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California. We strongly advise you to download the course booklet to obtain a sense of what you need to know about financial modeling. This course claims to make learners Excel masters with over 12 hours of video instruction and 534 downloadable tools.

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Disrupting Logistics Ain’t Easy

Talking Logistics

But Uber never expanded beyond the initial three cities [New York City, San Francisco, and Chicago]…Uber also faced stiff competition in same-day deliveries from a variety of startups and larger rivals, including Deliv Inc. to small couriers,” wrote Greg Bensinger in the Wall Street Journal last week. and Amazon.com Inc.”.

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Top 20: The Ultimate Logistics Technology Roundup

Freightos

Automated Vehicles : Google Car is already on the streets of San Francisco. Download the white paper! Download the white paper! Supply chains that are driven by data but implemented by people are empowered by live access to contextual data. Supply Chain Today in Freightos, @SCMProfessor ]. Let us know!

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This Week in Logistics News (June 15-19, 2015)

Talking Logistics

But as the article goes on to say: For more than a year, the San Francisco company has been trying to build what its chief executive once called “an urban logistics fabric” that enables drivers who shuttle passengers with the tap of a smartphone to pick up food, grocery items and packages along the way.