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How AI is spreading throughout the supply chain

The Logistics Academy

Integrating AI into the complex web of production and distribution—the supply chain—will have a bigger economic impact than any other application of the technology and affect a larger number of businesses, says Sudhir Jha of Infosys, a large IT company. But AI will transform several other aspects of supply chains as well.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

USPS slowing first-class package delivery to lower costs. Supply chain cyberattacks jumped 51% in 2021. The Covid pandemic continues to slow down global economies and supply chains. The global chip shortage is not the only aspect currently affecting supply chains around the world. GW to 10.4

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UPS opens up new Atlanta-based ‘super hub’ operating facility

247 Customs Broker

And it added that the parcels will move through the facility through what it called a “highly orchestrated series of conveyors, chutes, belts, and ramps into waiting trailers for transfer to another UPS location, or into package delivery vehicles bound for area businesses and residents. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor.

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Top 25 Supply Chains of 2018

Material Handling and Logistics

Our look at the Top 25 (plus 4) Supply Chains of 2018 examines how the best companies in the world excel at managing their global supply chains. 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. Printer-friendly version.

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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. Santa was worried that this increase in e-commerce would further strain an already strained supply chain.

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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.” I was speaking with the Chief Supply Chain Officer at one of the world’s largest CPG companies.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 17 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

Unionized UPS workers could strike this summer Walmart opens largest fulfillment center in Indiana Target tests larger next-day delivery effort Commerce Dept. Early this year, it said it would spend $100 million over the next three years to build a larger network of supply chain hubs to support the effort.