- 21. Investment Needed!
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- The technology is available, but the infrastructure isn't there to use it. According to Sian Hopwood on the Logistics Viewpoints site, the rubber's not yet hitting the road.Investments need to be made ...
- 22. Low Delivery Drone Adoption by 2020
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- With all the news about delivery drones buzzing around, you'd think the concept is ready to take off. You'd be wrong, according to a recent article citing Gartner research on the Material Handling & Logistics ...
- 23. Amazon's 'Floating DC' Id
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- Just when you thought you'd seen it all, you hear about Amazon's latest patent. It seems that 'flying fulfillment centers' that spawn drone deliveries may be in our future.... or not.It's certainly an ...
- 24. AI in Supply Chain's Futur
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- When you hear the 'automation' and 'supply chain' terms in the same sentence, you probably think about robots and driverless trucks.Those will definitely be a part of our future, but artificial intelligence ...
- 25. 2016 In the Read View Mirror
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- 2016 was quite a year, wasn't it? Supply Chain Digest's Dan Gilmore boils down the top trends and stories in a concise article about what made it so interesting.As usual, a lot of it's technology, but ...
- 26. Amazon's Trucking Move
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- Amazon created a lot of buzz (pun intended) with its testing of drones for customer order delivery. But Wired magazine's Davey Alba thinks their real logistics future is elsewhere: in self-driving trucks.Lots ...
- 27. Big Stories of 2016
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- Chris Cunnane gives us a list of what he considers to be the biggest supply chain stories of the year in a fresh article on the Logistics Viewpoints site. He covers a lot of ground with his list and hits ...
- 28. Supply Chain Drones
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- Although Amazon isn't dropping packages on your lawn from its drone skyforce yet, that doesn't mean they're not being used in supply chains. Drones are not only enhancing 'traditional' supply chain processes, ...
- 29. Unmanned Delivery Options are Changing the Supply Chain
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- ... services ranging from simply managing its own delivery fleet and moving away from USPS, FedEx, and UPS, to deploying drones from local distribution centers within a 5 mile redius of delivery locations. ...
- 30. Innovative Delivery Van for the Last Mile
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- ... a big investment in building networked delivery vans that can launch drones. According to Steve Banker on the Logistics Viewpoints site, the drone part of the concept may or may not pan out due to regulatory ...
- 31. Do Customers Really Need This?
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- In this era of omnichannel consumption, same day delivery, and drones, David Maloney asks a valid question: do our customers really want what we're trying to give them?The truth is we often just don't know, ...
- 32. Technology in the Warehouse
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- We're all aware that robots have become prevalent in warehouses, but drones, too? Asset location and cycle counting seem to be tasks that are right up a drone's alley, so to speak.Steve Banker talks warehouse ...
- 33. Last Mile Delivery Discussion
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- The battle to determine the winners and losers for control of the 'last mile' continues. A recent Q & A session with an experienced consultant and an industry veteran by the Supply Chain Digest staff uncovers ...
- 34. Driving Supply Chain Digitalization
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- Digital advances are rapidly moving into the supply chain. It's not just Big Data and analytics, though. According to the EMSNOW site, several trends are driving the changes.Read the article on the site ...
- 35. Drones in the DC
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- Amazon's potential use of drones for customer delivery seemed to be all the rage a while back, but more practical applications of the technology across the supply chain are now being made public.WalMart ...
- 36. Practical Drone Uses
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- Drones seem to be one of the more hyped technologies around, much of which is due to Amazon's potential use of them for package delivery. Although that's tied up in the FAA approval process, other uses of ...
- 37. Amazon Logistics?
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- In the ongoing effort to answer the eternal question of 'What's Amazon up to now?', Daphne Howland reports on moves they've recently made.Amazon's acquisition of interests in a couple of transportation ...
- 38. Pick Up the Pace
- (News)
- The ability to move quickly is almost always a positive trait. In the supply chain world, it's almost table stakes.Some areas of the supply chain, like logistics, have lagged, but speed has usually been ...
- 39. IoT in 2016
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- The Internet of Things (IoT) was all over the business news in 2015. When will we begin to actually see some practical applications? According to Joao Lima on CBR, 2016 should be a banner year.He provides ...
- 40. IoT Predictions for 2016
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- If you've paid attention, you know that the IoT will be even bigger in 2016. Of course, there's some hype involved, but the folks at Citrix have made some informed predictions on exactly where they think ...
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