Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2022

Advances in gripping technology and arm speed are making it easier to handle a broader array of items, for example, allowing companies to maximize their investment and reduce their reliance on human labor for mundane picking tasks. That’s all for this week. Enjoy the weekend and the song of the week, Drive My Car by the Beatles.

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Multichannel Merchant

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

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. It’s a model being replicated across retail as companies look to make their supply chain and inventory management as lean and efficient as possible.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Conferences are a great example of peer-to-peer learning in action, but with so many supply chain and logistics conferences available, how do you decide which ones to attend? Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) Conference , April 30 – May 3, Fort Worth, TX. eft 15th 3PL Summit , June 14-15, Chicago, IL.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This week, for example, CCJ reported that “60 percent of fleets running between 1 and 100 trucks have yet to adopt ELDs, according to a recent survey conducted by CarrierLists.” That is, how many carriers will decide to exit the market instead of complying? How will it impact productivity? Data and predictions have been all over the map.

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Elementum

JUNE 30, 2022

For example, in a Recession the economy could contract by 2%. Earlier this year, Walgreens Boots Alliance expanded their drone delivery pilot from Christiansburg, Virginia to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, reaching 100,000 customers. There are several reasons why Stagflation is actually worse than Recession.

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Elementum

JULY 8, 2015

Facebook announced today that it is moving forward with building a fifth data center , with plans to build in Fort Worth, Texas. But that’s just one example. billion users might require, and renewable options cut costs in the long-term. The number of worldwide data centers is expected to reach a peak of 8.6 million in 2017.

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DAT Solutions

JUNE 30, 2016

Rates in Fort Worth are rebounding now, from a downturn earlier in the month. If you take a load from Buffalo to Baltimore , for example, you add only 126 miles but you make 15¢ more per mile. Flatbed freight is also strongest in the Southeast.

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