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Adding Value to an Organization: Integrating a Logistics Center of Excellence
Perhaps the most overworked word in the supply chain management lexicon is "visibility." Yet it's difficult to overstate the importance of a view into what's going on in the supply chain. After all, you can't source, make, move, store, deliver, measure or improve what you can't see. At the same time, the value of supply chain visibility is lessened if it isn't comprehensive — encompassing the supply chain from one end to the other, from upstream to downstream.
Making the Leap to Artificial Intelligence: Four Keys for Manufacturers
It seems everywhere you look, traditional original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are investing heavily in artificial intelligence (AI). Ford recently announced its plans to invest $1bn over the next five years in Argo AI, a start-up formed just in December whose focus is the development of autonomous vehicles. Similarly, last year GM invested $1bn when it acquired Cruise Automation, another AI start-up.
Amazon Expands E-Commerce Fulfillment Capacity in India
In line with the hyper growth of e-commerce activity there, Amazon is expanding its operations in India by adding seven new fulfillment centers. MoneyControl.com reported that Amazon India plans to invest $5bn in its facilities by the end of June.
How an ERP Debacle Triggered Supply-Chain Transformation at Finning Canada
The exclusive distributor of Caterpillar equipment and parts in Canada runs into a brick wall when attempting to implement a new ERP system. But the crisis ends up driving supply-chain transformation.
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Warehouse Optimization Needed - and Not Just During Holiday Season
Online retail continues to grow at a rapid rate, with a 14.6-percent increase in the category in 2015, totaling $341.7bn. That has major implications for warehouse optimization.
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Opinion: Why You Should Build Your Supply Chain From the Customer Up
Supply chain orchestration has many benefits for customers and businesses.
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Amazon Rival Boxed Sees Narrow Inventory as an Edge
Chieh Huang has borrowed a lot from Amazon.com Inc. to expand his e-commerce startup Boxed Wholesale, which sells bulk packages of paper towels, granola bars and maxi pads, including free delivery within two days on most orders and an inexpensive house brand of products. And, like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Huang started the company in his garage in 2013.
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Amazon's On-Demand Manufacturing Sends Tremors Through Supply Chain
If Amazon's latest clothing manufacturing plans become a reality, air cargo companies could stand to lose billions in revenues. Last week, the e-commerce giant was awarded a patent for a localized manufacturing setup that eliminates much of the traditional supply chain, bringing manufacturing closer to consumers than ever before.
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The New Shopping Hubs for Cities: Warehouse Distribution Centers
Past scrapyards, railroad tracks, stacks of old wooden pallets and rusty shipping containers here sits a nondescript warehouse, alongside a snarl of freeway overpasses, with two dozen trucks parked at its docks.
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Survival Strategies for Struggling Retailers
In the age of the omnichannel, is there any hope for traditional retail chains?
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Online Retailers' New Warehouses Heat Up Local Job Markets
Retailers and logistics companies have been opening warehouses at a record pace to ensure online orders reach customers as quickly as possible. Now they're struggling to find workers to staff them.
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Amazon's Robot War Keeps Spreading
It was Amazon that drove America's warehouse operators into the robot business.
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