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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Wing and Zipline are drone delivery providers and will allow Walmart to cover 75 percent of the Dallas-Fort Worth population as stores in 30 towns and municipalities will now offer drone delivery service. While we are sad to see him go, we wish him nothing the best.

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Walmart First to Deliver Driverless Middle Mile

Multichannel Merchant

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. 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.

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Supply Chain Market Report – July 2022

Elementum

Over the last 2 years, Supply Chain teams have been struggling to procure and manufacture enough inventory. Suppliers will continue to ship orders in an effort to get the inventory off their books. Emerging technologies: drones taking flight Remember when drones were going to take over final-mile logistics?

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

This is leading to an inventory pile-up of processors and memory chips used in PCs. And now on to this week’s logistics news: McDonald’s is testing a new drive-thru concept. Some retailers are learning to love bulked-up inventories. Want to learn more building resiliency without losing the benefits of just-in-time inventory?

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This Week in Logistics News (June 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Logistics hiring slowed in May amid shifts in retail sector. Target expects squeezed profits from aggressive plan to get rid of unwanted inventory. As a result, logistics hiring in May has slowed down. That’s a tough break for the industry.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 7-11, 2018)

Talking Logistics

My wife often jokes that she is the VP of Supply Chain and Logistics in our family. Moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Uber teams with NASA to make flying cars a reality (CNN). But it’s no joke, it’s true. Happy Mother’s Day to all moms, for everything you do.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Trucking Stocks Tumble on Downgrade, Pricing Outlook (WSJ- sub. Descartes Showcases Logistics Technology Platform Innovations at Global User and Partner Conference. Note: Descartes and MercuryGate are Talking Logistics sponsors.