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Customer Experience in Logistics: 4 Key Areas to Lay the Foundation

GlobalTranz

Events like claims and reclassifications are hard pills to swallow, but they’re a fact of shipping. Educating shippers, so they’re prepared to navigate these complexities gives carriers an opportunity to help customers feel less vulnerable them. . Technology Connects Everything.

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How E-Commerce Is Reinventing the Humble Warehouse

MIT Supply Chain

The modeling effort was aided by MIT CTL’s Computation and Visual Education (CAVE) Lab. Similarly, shoe retailer DSW started shipping orders out of its closed shoe stores. “We A Seattle startup, FLEXE, has gone a step further by creating what amounts to the Airbnb of warehousing.

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Tens of Thousands of New Jobs, and One Worry: Robots

BlueYonder

Inside cavernous halls known as fulfillment centers, workers retrieve coffee filters, diapers and other items that are then packaged and shipped to customers. This year alone, Amazon announced new fulfillment centers in Eastvale, Redlands, Fresno and most recently Sacramento, where the Seattle company said it would hire 1,500 workers.

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Tens of Thousands of New Jobs, and One Worry: Robots

BlueYonder

Inside cavernous halls known as fulfillment centers, workers retrieve coffee filters, diapers and other items that are then packaged and shipped to customers. This year alone, Amazon announced new fulfillment centers in Eastvale, Redlands, Fresno and most recently Sacramento, where the Seattle company said it would hire 1,500 workers.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Stephen Beard, VP at Flexe!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Why can’t we ship orders the day they arrive? Young girls having their day tied up with carrying water is one of the reasons so few girls in 3 rd world countries get any kind of basic education, which only continues the cycle of extreme poverty. The most important question you can ask is, “Why?” Why do we do it that way?

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This Week in Logistics News (May 15-19, 2017)

Talking Logistics

She recently completed her second marathon and earlier this year she was recognized by our city for her participation in Understanding Our Differences , an organization focused on disability education awareness, where she speaks to 4th graders about T1D. Port of Los Angeles and GE Transportation launch solution to digitize maritime shipping.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 25-29, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Speaking of Amazon, the company is raising the bar again on delivery in response to Walmart testing a free, three-day shipping service. In return, the Seattle company pledges to get users their merchandise by 9 pm that night. Amazon said Prime members wanting same-day delivery will no longer pay the $5.99