Walmart and IKEA: Drone Delivery vs. Drones in the Warehouse
Talking Logistics
AUGUST 26, 2024
Lots of news last week about the use of drones in supply chain and logistics operations.
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This Week in Logistics News (June 4 – 10)
Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 10, 2022
Supply chain shortages have caused prices to rise globally on just about every consumer good imaginable. Descartes acquires XPS Technologies. The expansion in the trucking and warehousing sectors suggests logistics operators are continuing to staff up in a tight labor market as they work to unscramble supply chains.
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Walmart Looks to Expand Drone Deliveries to Five Cities
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 9, 2025
As part of its partnership with drone company Wing, the retail giant intends to bring drone deliveries to Houston, Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta and Charlotte by June of 2026, and will expand existing services in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. This is real drone delivery at scale,” said Wing CEO Adam Woodworth.
This Week in Logistics News (April 30 – May 6)
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 6, 2022
According to the website, its debut vehicle, the 21C, is designed by both human and AI technologies and uses a hybrid powertrain system which combines a twin-turbo 2.88-liter While all of this technology sounds pretty amazing, it should be said that this type of performance comes with a price tag. The Czinger 21C costs $1.7
This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)
Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 12, 2024
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. New research suggests that a misunderstanding of what was happening with global supply chains might be part of why.
Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2017
Talking Logistics
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Many of the leading ERP and supply chain software vendors have customer events in various countries around the world.;
This Week in Logistics News (May 7-11, 2018)
Talking Logistics
MAY 11, 2018
My wife often jokes that she is the VP of Supply Chain and Logistics in our family. Whether it’s preventing out-of-stocks of critical household items or making sure the kids are delivered on time in full to wherever they need to be, she keeps our supply chain running as efficiently as possible — while doing her day job too!
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