From Iceland to America: Drone Delivery Inches Closer to Reality
Supply Chain Brain
AUGUST 12, 2019
Iceland continues to act as a proving ground for the use of drones in package-delivery services.
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Mass Customisation: What It Is and How Companies Are Using It
Unleashed
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
We’ve seen this process of customer-driven change before, with sustainable packaging going from niche to mainstream and B2B eCommerce mimicking B2C eCommerce , and we’ve seen it also in the rise of personalised email and content marketing. The customer may never realise that what’s in their package is different to what’s in other people’s.
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No, AI has not killed supply chain management
Supply Chain Movement
AUGUST 10, 2021
From toilet paper manufacturing that could not easily switch between industrial and residential formats to eggs and flour prepared and packaged in separate streams for consumers and commercial needs, many supply chains struggled to adapt. . Of course, the pandemic was very much unchartered waters for all of us.
Let’s Embrace New Ways of Working
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
It would have helped the GM pinpoint the ignition issue and Kellogg detect the smelly packaging issue faster. I spoke of my experience during the Icelandic ash issue. I shared how sentiment analysis enables companies to sense product quality issues four-to-six weeks before knowledge by a traditional call center.
This Week in Logistics News (August 28 – September 1, 2017)
Talking Logistics
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
Iceland Gets On-Demand Drone Deliveries (BloombergTechnology). Although the Port of Houston is reopening today and package carriers are resuming operations to some affected areas, it will take some time (weeks and months) for transportation and distribution networks to return to normal. Cummins unveils electric tractor concept (CCJ).
Walmart Launches Second U.S. Drone Delivery Pilot in North Carolina
Multichannel Merchant
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
We know that it will be some time before we see millions of packages delivered via drone. Flytrex, which has been conducting regular drone deliveries in Reykjavik, Iceland for the past three years, the first in the world, has been taking part in an FAA-approved drone test program in North Carolina since 2018.
Job opening: Director Business Projects at Samskip
Supply Chain Movement
JULY 21, 2015
Samskip also offers you: A market compensation package. We use our own equipment and hardware in a multimodal network that spans all of Europe including the North Atlantic (Iceland and Faroe Islands), Baltic States, Russia as well as Turkey and Central Asia. A company car. 28 holidays. A Pension scheme. Interested?
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