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This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

Micro-Warehouse Provider Pivots as Retail Consumer Market Shifts. In 2017, Flytrex successfully launched the world’s first fully autonomous urban drone delivery system in Reykjavik, Iceland, and we covered that initiative in these pages on June 15, 2018. Philly Cheesesteak Delivered by Drone? Container Ship Leasing Trends Downward.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

mile route from a small warehouse to a Walmart retail store in Bentonville, Arkansas. With Autonomous Pickup, Flytrex drones can pick up orders from restaurants and retailers via dropdown wire, and fly directly to customers’ homes to deliver the goods, removing the human component from the delivery process. Gatik has covered a 7.1-mile

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Resilience and Agility in Supply Chains: Navigating Change in a Dynamic World

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Similarly, during the 2010 volcanic eruption in Iceland, which disrupted air travel across Europe, fashion retailer Zara showcased its agility by rapidly adjusting its distribution network to ensure timely delivery of products to customers. The present business landscape is marked by unprecedented levels of complexity and uncertainty.

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Toy Retailer TOP-TOY Picks RELEX to Boost Availability and Automation

RELEX Solutions

TOP-TOY, the leading retailer for toys and other children’s products in the Nordic region, is improving its supply chain visibility to keep closer tabs on its inventory while driving up availability. The post Toy Retailer TOP-TOY Picks RELEX to Boost Availability and Automation appeared first on RELEX Solutions.

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Mass Customisation: What It Is and How Companies Are Using It

Unleashed

Mass customisation is also known as: Made-to-order Built-to-order Increasingly popular in the retail goods sector – but also used in the automotive, software and finance sectors – mass customisation allows customers to purchase a product that is more ‘them’. The frozen yoghurt trend Remember when frozen yoghurt started to get big?

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Supply Chain Movement 19 – Software & Leaders

Supply Chain Movement

This is an end-to-end Supply Chain transformation and a shift in the way that Diageo gets its brands from its own and third party manufacturing facilities to bars, restaurants, hotels and retailers, both directly or through a network of distributors. The aim is to grow in an even more sustainable and profitable way.

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Supply Chain Resilience Core Capacities

MIT Supply Chain

For example, the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption in Iceland caused a primary loss of freight transportation capacity, but that loss also robbed many companies of supply capacity. retail and online stores and processes). This factor has become more complicated as e-commerce has grown and brick-and-mortar retailing has declined.