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As the fourth industrial revolution, known by some as Industry 4.0, continues to transform the supply chain, companies must aim to increase productivity and improve estate utilization by integrating robotics…

Automation has become a ‘catch-all’ term for the use of technology to address a range of tasks and business objectives. Although the whole business world has been swept up in…

UPS brings drone delivery to North Carolina hospital campus On Tuesday, UPS began an unmanned drone delivery service to deliver blood samples across the WakeMed hospital campus in Raleigh, North…

Blockchain – or distributed ledger technology – is most commonly known for being the technological and intellectual basis of the crypto currency ‘bitcoin’, but it has many other applications as…

Every supply chain manager is also an individual consumer, and there can be no doubt that the innovations in one market often alter the demand, offerings and consumer expectations of…

The trucking industry has some fundamental problems to solve. It’s not that something specific has “gone wrong.” Rather, it’s simply an inefficient industry in general. There’s no shame in admitting…

Read any of the recent, glitzy headlines about Amazon’s new Delivery Service Partners program and you walk away with the feeling that Amazon is not only pushing the threshold on…

As you might have noticed, we are kind of experienced in the wrap-up business, delivering you the most interesting supply chain news of the week each Friday. David Weaver, who…

Black Friday and Cyber Monday break all records again Friday after Thanksgiving is known to be an eventful day. Black Friday, the opening of the Christmas shopping season reached a…

Thursday is Thanksgiving. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest festival, which today is recognized as one of the first Thanksgiving festivals in the colonies.…