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Alphabet to Test Drone Delivery for Walgreens in Texas
Alphabet Inc.’s drone-delivery operation is expanding to a Walgreens in suburban Dallas where it will make airborne deliveries of toothpaste and other goods to residents of nearby towns.
Alphabet Inc.’s drone-delivery operation, Wing LLC, delivers a package at a home during a demonstration in Blacksburg, Virginia. Photo: Bloomberg.
Watch: We Need an Infrastructure Bill. But Will There Be Money to Spend?
Kenneth Roberts, chair of the construction law group with Venable LLP, explains why the need for an infrastructure bill now is dire — but will the promised funds for construction and maintenance actually materialize?
We Need an Infrastructure Bill. But Will There Be Money to Spend?
California Governor Eyes Expansion, Automation to Ease Port Congestion
An executive order signed Wednesday asks state agencies to identify “priority freight routes,” and find sites that can be used for short-term storage of container cargo.
Shipping containers in the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Bloomberg.
‘People Are Hoarding’: Food Shortages Are The Next Supply Chain Crunch
There’s plenty of food. There just isn’t enough processing and transportation capacity to meet rising demand as the economy revs up.
A Walmart Inc. shopper walks by empty shelves. Photo: Bloomberg.
Watch: Is American Manufacturing Due for a Resurgence?
Shay Scott, executive director of the Global Supply Chain Institute, and professor in the University of Tennessee’s Master of Science in Supply Chain Management online program, weighs the factors that might influence American manufacturers to reshore production from Asia to the U.S.
Is American Manufacturing Due for a Resurgence?
Music, Barbecues, Wi-Fi: Managing Morale for Those Idled at Sea
With many of the world’s 400,000 merchant mariners still struggling to take time off and go home, seafarer fatigue remains a problem heading into the second holiday season of the pandemic.
Container ships moored off the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in Long Beach, California. Photo: Bloomberg.
Watch: How Fast Fulfillment Changed Retailing
Sanchoy Das, professor in the Engineering Department of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, explains how “fast fulfillment” has come to dominate e-commerce, to the point where online shoppers expect nothing less.
How Fast Fulfillment Changed Retailing
The Blending of Human Capital and Robots in a World of Automation
Automated processes not only have the ability to solve supply chain problems such as labor shortages and changing customer demand, but can in fact improve the safety and quality of life for the human worker.
A warehouse employee loads packages into a shipping container. Photo: Bloomberg.
Global Port Gridlock Threatens Economies Everywhere
Global ports are growing more gridlocked as the pandemic era’s supply shocks intensify, threatening to spoil the holiday shopping season, erode corporate profits and drive up consumer prices.
Container ships moored off the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in Long Beach, California. Photo: Bloomberg.
Port-Crisis Plan Seeks Inland U.S. Terminals, More Truckers
Commitments from shippers and cargo owners to move toward around-the-clock unloading at the docks in Los Angeles are a first step to addressing a national supply chain backlog.
Truck chassis sit stacked at the APM shipping terminal in the Port of Los Angeles. Photo: Bloomberg.
Biden Confronts Supply Chain Crisis Stretching Past His Grip
President Biden wants to break a logjam at U.S. ports and stave off a holiday season of shortages and delays — bottlenecks that officials and stakeholders say extend far beyond the reach of the White House.
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on supply chain bottlenecks ahead of the Christmas shopping season. Photo: Bloomberg.
Watch: The Blending of Human Capital and Robots in a World of Automation
Kevin Massey, senior director of strategic analytics and data science with Ryder Supply Chain Solutions, talks about how humans and robots can work together, each performing the tasks that it does best, to create the most efficient operating model for supply chain and logistics providers.
The Blending of Human Capital and Robots in a World of Automation
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