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This Week in Logistics News (March 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon , which has struggled to streamline its grocery strategy, is looking at grocery-picking gig workers in a new way. The partnership expanded last month with a new route between Dallas-Fort Worth and Oklahoma City on the I-35 corridor.

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Fearless Females of Supply Chain: Overcoming the Seeds of Doubt

BlueYonder

As part of our “Fearless Females of Supply Chain” Blue Yonder Live series, Blue Yonder’s Chief Customer Officer Susan Beal spoke to Love’s Ashley Gockstetter, Director Customer Strategy, Loyalty & Analytics, and Karlyn Cottle, Manager of Vendor Strategy. You can watch their conversation here.

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Good-bye siloed, functional planner. Hello storm chasing network planner.

Kinaxis

2013 – Massive tornado packing 200 mph winds in the Oklahoma City area. For a small bit of good news, supply chain leaders know this and are putting strategies in place to deal with this new reality. Let’s just look at some events: 2017 – Hurricane Irma (plus others). 2016 – Hurricane Matthew (plus others). See 2014 side note).

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The Demise of Yellow Corporation

American Global Logistics

Yellow Corporation: A Brief History Yellow was founded in 1924 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Organizations began investing in strategies to manage disruptions. These strategies included leveraging digital platforms, optimizing transportation networks, and adopting real-time tracking technologies.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

to test autonomous truck runs from Houston to Oklahoma City with a safety driver aboard. Maersk and Kodiak are running trucks 24 hours a day for four days a week between Houston and Oklahoma City with a stopover in Dallas to swap out safety drivers, who must comply with the limit on driver hours.