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“Flesh and Breath” – The Appeal of Delegating to AI and its Limits

Logistics Viewpoints

The Appeal of Delegating to AI AI is a tool designed by humans to do things it can do better or we cannot or do not want to do. We delegate understanding when we expect tools and technology to solve all our problems and surrender our own expertise. People I hardly knew checked in to ask how I was doing.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 29 – May 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

But I also found it interesting that Dick Morley , the father of the PLC (programmable logic controllers to you non-geeks), organized geek pride days in New Hampshire as early as 2001. Almost 75% expected supply chain restructuring to negatively impact China’s economy much more than any other country.

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Multi-Carrier Shipping Software Solutions for 2021

ShipBob

Luckily, multi-carrier shipping software solutions for 2021 simplify shipping, so that brands can focus on what’s most important — growing their business. Read on to learn how multi-carrier shipping software can help you grow your brand by taking the complexity out of shipping. . What is multi-carrier shipping software?

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Walmart Expands Use of Scanning Robots, Launches MFC for Grocery

Multichannel Merchant

Walmart is expanding its fleet of shelf-scanning robots, adding 650 this year for a total of 1,000 as it looks to address nettlesome grocery out-of-stock issues and battle competitors with the technology, including Ahold Delhaize’s Stop & Shop, Giant Eagle and Schnuck’s, Bloomberg is reporting. A report last year from McKinsey & Co.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

The company created Project Gigaton in 2017 to engage suppliers and other stakeholders up and down the supply chain to reduce carbon emissions. The goal is to reduce or avoid one billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gasses from the global value chain by 2030. The nationwide vacancy rate for industrial real estate was 3.2

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This Week in Logistics News (July 31 – August 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

As Steve Banker wrote about in last week’s news roundup, the worldwide shortage of semiconductors is expected to last through the first quarter of 2023 at a minimum according to the electronics supply chain analysis firm Supplyframe. Costs for pet food ingredients have climbed 8 percent to 20 percent since the pandemic began.

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New Balance Has Plans for Added U.S. Manufacturing

Supply Chain Matters

According to a published report from New Hampshire’s Manchester Union Leader via Yahoo News , plans for the sixth facility call for the construction of a 102,418 square foot combination office and manufacturing facility within Londonderry, New Hampshire , near the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.