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This Week in Supply Chain Tech- January 19 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Founded in 2016, Northvolt develops what is described as state-of-the-art sodium ion battery technology developed for the expansion of cost-efficient and sustainable energy storage systems worldwide. Stardust Power Selects Oklahoma for Battery Grade Lithium Refinery Development stage U.S.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

In fact, America’s true refund pioneer was born a century before Hsieh, on a farm in Oklahoma. Perhaps surprisingly, companies that sell sofa beds, dining tables and other bulky, heavy items often do the same, because return freight is so expensive. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business at Georgia Tech, his alma mater.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

XPO Logistics to spin off freight brokerage. CEVA Logistics using self-driving trucks to move freight. XPO Logistics plans to split its freight brokerage, European, and intermodal businesses apart from its US trucking operation, which will dismantle the large freight and supply-chain operation it has built over the last decade.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 3-7, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Con-way Freight Introduces Drive Safe Systems™. FedEx Freight to Increase Shipping Rates. Meanwhile, Con-way Freight announced the full deployment of Drive Safe Systems™, a suite of advanced on-board “monitor, sense and alert” technologies. Is Walmart’s WAVE Concept Truck The Fuel-Efficient Future Of Semis? Yahoo Autos ).

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This Week in Logistics News (October 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

to test autonomous truck runs from Houston to Oklahoma City with a safety driver aboard. Uber Freight and others that are testing autonomous big rigs in Texas and surrounding states. Maersk is experimenting with driverless trucks at its shipping yard in Carson, California, and has partnered with Kodiak Robotics Inc.