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Companies Cannot Transform Through AI Alone

Logistics Viewpoints

UPS dominated business and trade headlines for a day in late January when the world’s largest package delivery company announced plans to cut 12,000 full- and part-time management jobs as part of a new initiative called “Fit to Serve.” What stood out even more was the “subhead” of UPS’ announcement.

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Holiday supply chains – did Santa get the gifts out on time?

Turvo

Experts warned that global supply chain issues could cause extended production delays, and shipping might rumble, slowing package deliveries to millions of Americans in the weeks and days leading to Christmas. The freight rate, charter rate, custom data, and ocean booking data indicate that the supply chain crunch is not over.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2022, 260 million delivered packages were stolen, and nearly 80 percent of Americans were victims of porch piracy. UPS has launched DeliveryDefense , an AI-powered approach to reducing the risk of delivery theft. The technology analyzes address characteristics and generates a ‘Delivery Confidence Score’ for each address.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 31 – January 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

NielsenIQ’s data shows the market for nonalcoholic beer, wine and spirits grew more than 20 percent last year, and more than 120 percent over the last three years. The company announced last year that Amazon Prime customers in Lockeford, CA, will start receiving package deliveries by drone by the end of 2022.

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Top 25 Supply Chains of 2018

Material Handling and Logistics

One of the most popular articles we’ve ever done is our look at analyst group Gartner’s annual ranking of the Top 25 Supply Chains. In fact, BMW has adopted any number of digital production technologies, such as data analytics, smart logistics and 3D printing. Printer-friendly version. Media Type. Media Credit. Privacy Settings.

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Things you need to know about Asset Management

Jayem Logistics

It is broadly defined that it refers to maintain and monitors the asset value of entity and groups. ERP/SAP/ Oracle Data receiving. Package delivery. Data Accuracy. It can be apply to both tangible (Buildings, Machinery and etc.) and intangible assets (Cash, Bank balance and etc.), Courier Management. and Asset No.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 25-29, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Mercedes-Benz Vans, Matternet and siroop start pilot project for on-demand delivery of e-commerce goods. Loblaw says it’s exploring grocery home delivery partnership with Instacart (CTVnews). Package delivery startup Doorman is shutting down (TechCrunch). Ford and Lyft Sign Driverless-Car Agreement (WSJ – sub.