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This Week in Logistics News (April 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

The figure includes Panasonic’s purchase of the remaining 80 percent of shares in Blue Yonder for $5.6 In other sustainability news, the InBev 100+ Accelerator is adding some big-name companies: Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, and Unilever. The partners help to fund and pilot start-ups in their sustainability innovation plans.

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Top 12 New Logistics Startup Companies Making Noise

ShipBob

Think about your most recent purchase. This sequence of events involves many moving parts, including purchasing, packaging, shipping, and transporting materials to distributors to sell to the end customer. Freight forwarding. More agile on fulfilling requests and custom solutions. Warehousing and storage. Track record.

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Disrupting Logistics Ain’t Easy

Talking Logistics

After launching in 2014 and raising a total of $63 million, this “Uber for Shipping” venture (as investors and the press liked to call Shyp) never found a sustainable business model. Shyp and Uber: Pulling the Plug on Disruption. It’s pretty silly,” he told me in early 2016. and Amazon.com Inc.”. More on the latter in a future post.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

. “Around 0600 Pacific Time Tuesday morning, multiple Waymo vehicles in San Francisco encountered very dense fog and determined they should pull over temporarily,” a company spokesperson said. We have software updates planned to improve our fog and parking performance to address such situations in the future.”

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Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

GlobalTranz

Not only has Walmart excelled over the decades in traditional supply chain management but with recent news as of late, Walmart is also focused on continuous improvement by investing more into emerging technologies to capture more of the e-commerce market as well as a focus on sustainability. ” Walmart states early on.

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Target Acquires Grand Junction and Proves Delivery Matters

FLEXE

announced its intended acquisition of Grand Junction , a San Francisco-based startup that enables retailers and distributors to speed up the last mile of delivery in local markets by connecting retailers to a network of 700+ carriers. New, agile logistics solutions will invariably be a part of the transformation.

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Target Acquires Grand Junction and Proves Delivery Matters

FLEXE

<a href="[link] its intended acquisition</a> of <a href="[link] Junction</a>, a San Francisco-based startup that enables retailers and distributors to speed up the last mile of delivery in local markets by connecting retailers to a network of 700+ carriers. </p>