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This Week in Logistics News (July 21-25, 2014)

Talking Logistics

I hurried downstairs to the kitchen, and after a mild panic attack witnessed only by our guinea pig, I called the airline and was able to get booked on a different flight, and I made it to my client’s meeting on time. That was my wake-up call Thursday morning. The airline sent me a text too, in case I dismissed the call as a bad dream.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 5-9, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Our guinea pig Cow died this morning. What do you do with a deceased guinea pig? and here’s my perspective on it: Amazon wants to own and control the innovation cycle — from the front end of its operations (website) to its back end (order fulfillment, DC automation systems, and final delivery) — in a holistic and integrated manner.

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The IoT Reality Check

C3 Solutions

While the tech is "clearly past the early innovator phase…now we need to find out how to get it more mainstream," said Bill Hoffman, president of Object Management Group, a not-for-profit technology standards consortium, speaking at an IoT conference in October 2019. Take the dock doors, for example. Where's the ROI?

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Is Your Halloween Candy Responsibly Sourced?

SupplyShift

Cocoa beans grow best in hot and rainy regions hugging the equator, places like Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Peru and Papua New Guinea. In Indonesia, for example, large tracts of rainforest have been cut down to make room for oil palm plantations, sometimes destroying important orangutan habitats. grams per chocolate bar.

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Is Your Halloween Candy Responsibly Sourced?

SupplyShift

Cocoa beans grow best in hot and rainy regions hugging the equator, places like Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Peru and Papua New Guinea. In Indonesia, for example, large tracts of rainforest have been cut down to make room for oil palm plantations, sometimes destroying important orangutan habitats. grams per chocolate bar.

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Smart Cities Should Focus on Helping People

Enterra Insights

However, when cities view themselves as “the world’s best laboratories for solutions,” citizens can feel like they are guinea pigs. Cristiano Radaelli, Chief Innovation Officer at Planet Smart City, calls this approach “digital humanism.”[2] ” Making Cities Smart. .”

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Smart Cities Should Focus on Helping People

Enterra Insights

However, when cities view themselves as “the world’s best laboratories for solutions,” citizens can feel like they are guinea pigs. Cristiano Radaelli, Chief Innovation Officer at Planet Smart City, calls this approach “digital humanism.”[2] ” Making Cities Smart. .”