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Walmart Looks to Expand Drone Deliveries to Five Cities

Supply Chain Brain

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. Featured Product Popular Stories Watch: Why Choose FTZs to Mitigate Tariffs?

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U.S.-Mexico-Canada Freight Down in All Modes for April

Supply Chain Brain

Port of Houston, Arthur, and Texas City are the top water port connections for U.S. Detroit, Port Huron, and International Falls are the top rail connection ports for U.S. freight flows with Canada, while Laredo, Eagle Pass, and El Paso are the top rail connection ports with Mexico. energy flows on the Southern border.

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The Hydrogen Advantage for Commercial Trucking

Supply Chain Brain

Texas specifically has a strategic triangle connecting Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, providing an ideal testbed with distances perfectly suited to hydrogens 500-mile range. at 29% of the total. at 29% of the total. Greater than 20% of the U.S. total truck fleet operates in California and Texas alone.

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Fine-Tuning a Supply Chain Strategy through Real Estate Analysis

Supply Chain Brain

At the start of JLLs engagement, VS America maintained two distribution facilities in Houston, TX and Charlotte, NC. The furniture maker wanted to assess whether changes in its real-estate footprint might improve operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.

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The Story Continues…. Let’s Don’t Sugar Coat the Real Issue

Supply Chain Shaman

This morning, my mailbox was bombarded with the news of tentative agreement of the settlement of the nine-month labor conflict between the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). Lora Cecere is the Supply Chain Shaman.

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Study Shows Two-Thirds of Companies Yet to Execute Digital Transformation in Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

and HOUSTON, Tex. Digital transformation is not seen as a singular activity but a set of interrelated activities that span across people, process, technology, policy, and metrics,” said George Fowler, group vice president in Spinnaker’s Supply Chain business unit. BOSTON, Mass.

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Managing Logistics for The World’s Largest Company with Gary Sostack

The Logistics of Logistics

Then, after a short spell in New Orleans, I moved to Houston to work with supply chain in oil and gas. If you live in Houston, you know who it is. One of the bidders had a very unorganized warehouse. The expected metrics were part of the contract. For the last four years, I’ve been teaching at the University of Houston.