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This Week in Logistics News (October 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

Instead of shipping a new smartphone to someone’s house and having it left on the front steps, one of Enjoy’s delivery workers will personally deliver and set up the phone, and then sell additional services. FDA inks mutual reliance agreements with California, Florida, Utah, Wisconsin. Lead times for chips have surged.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

This year, with the LA Rams being Super Bowl champs, Good360 said it will ship thousands of “unsellable” Bengals-branded hats, T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, COVID-19 masks, and scarves to struggling people in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. New wave of contracts will lock in much higher shipping rates.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Founded in 2003, Utah based Avetta has reportedly deployed by 500 clients located in more than 130 countries. Gather AI Raises $17 Million in Series A Funding Computer vision and AI-powered warehouse inventory monitoring technology start-up Gather AI has announced $17 Million Series A-1 funding led by Bain Capital Ventures.

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Top 12 New Logistics Startup Companies Making Noise

ShipBob

This sequence of events involves many moving parts, including purchasing, packaging, shipping, and transporting materials to distributors to sell to the end customer. Warehousing and storage. expecting same day delivery, two-day shipping, etc.) Freight forwarding. Handling raw materials. Order fulfillment. Inventory Planner.

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The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment

Freightos

Even closer to end customers, in August, Maersk acquired Visible SCM, a Utah-based B2B/B2C company, which handles over 200,000 orders a day across nine fulfillment centers, as well as a European counterpart. For a forwarder, refraining from working with Maersk today is expensive because it removes 17% of global shipping capacity.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

Trucking, warehousing, and parcel-delivery companies added a combined 32,900 jobs last month, according to seasonally adjusted preliminary employment figures the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, down from 44,700 jobs added in April. As a result, logistics hiring in May has slowed down.

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Veho Raises $170M to Reach $1.5B Valuation

Multichannel Merchant

Veho, a startup whose software platform matches demand to crowdsourced drivers and handles deliveries and returns out of its own warehouses, has raised another $170 million to reach a $1.5 Veho plans to expand the doorstop returns program nationally as well, and improve its warehouse automation capabilities. Photo credit: Veho.