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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

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Walmart has entered a definitive agreement to purchase micro-fulfillment center (MFC) developer Alert Innovation. This is putting the squeeze on small businesses. The retailer is taking over Alert after working with the startup on a multi-year pilot of the company’s robotic grocery order-fulfillment technology, known as Alphabot.

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How To Reposition Inventory to Better Respond To Natural Disasters

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The IFRC report showed a definite increase in the number of natural disasters since the 1960s, with a sharp 35% increase since the 1990s. More recently, an Institute for Supply Management survey found that the supply chains of approximately 75% of over 600 businesses faced disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Logistics Business: How to make a successful business

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And that made then more demanding, which increased competitiveness in all sectors, including the logistics business. In the last years, the market has changed all around the world. Technology and new media channels brought more access to information to customers.

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The Role of Data Analytics in Supply Chain Management

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Business logistics were typically fragmented and lacked coordinated operations until the middle of the 1970s. as a definition of value. Integration is a significant difficulty due to the diversity of businesses, platforms, systems, ideologies, and regional cultures.