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This Week in Logistics News (October 14 – 20)

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races to expand Michigan locks and secure the supply chain S.-bound Amazon says its new robotics system, named Sequoia after the giant trees native to California’s Sierra Nevada region, is designed for both speed and safety. Amazon launched the system this week at one of its warehouses in Houston.

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Toyota Consolidating Operations in Texas

Operations and Supply Chain Management

was too far from the auto maker’s factories in Kentucky, Indiana, Mississippi and Texas and from its engineering center in Ann Arbor, Mich., positions to Houston and $5,800 for each of 3,600 Apple Inc. Toyota’s design studio and several other small functions will remain in California, keeping its total workforce at 2,300.

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