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Walmart to have next-day delivery across 75% of US by end-2019Jul 15, 2019
Walmart seeks to fight back against encroachment on its customer base by launching next-day delivery on more than 200,000 items
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Volvo inks major battery deal with Asian suppliersJul 9, 2019
Volvo signs deals with CATL and LG Chem for lithium-ion batteries
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Scania signs deal with start-up for battery cellsJul 7, 2019
Scandinavian truck maker has signed a deal with Swedish company Northvolt to gain access to greater battery inventory
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Digital twins: A way to improve efficiency in logistics?Jul 4, 2019
Digital twinning, the mapping of a physical asset to a digital platform, may lead to big gains for the logistics sector says a new DHL report
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Live from the eft Media Zone: Kate Kaufman with Uber Freight” - SCNR Episode 103Jun 25, 2019
In the first of a series of interviews direct from our 3PL and Supply Chain Summit, Supply Chain Now Radio grabs an interview with Kate Kaufman, Director of Account Management for Uber Freight
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New study reveals the impact of evolving consumer buying behaviours on global supply chainsJun 17, 2019
High degree of electronic collaboration is benefitting retailers and manufacturers but 46% of retailers are reluctant or unable to share e-commerce sales forecasts with manufacturers
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Webinar: A conversation with Sebastiaan Scholte, CEO, Jan de Rijk LogisticsJun 17, 2019
The risks and rewards of innovation in logistics
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Uber may never be profitable … admits UberJun 6, 2019
Private ride-hailing giant Uber has warned that it may never be profitable. First published on www.ITSInternational.com
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Microsoft predicts ‘pay as you-go’ solution to congestionMay 23, 2019
Congestion pricing is the solution to inner city traffic gridlock, according to Microsoft’s chief economist, Michael Schwarz. First published on www.ITSInternational.com
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Study finds that autonomous vehicles could contribute $591 billion to global GDP and transform creaking city mobilityMay 21, 2019
Huge costs resulting from congestion, improved vehicle usage, lower emissions and less injuries could be mitigated by autonomous vehicles according to Frost & Sullivan report
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Singapore, London and San Francisco lead in global study of smart mobilityMay 20, 2019
Europe is also the leading region in terms of number of cities with strong plans to deal with mobility challenges in Frost and Sullivan ranking of 100 major cities
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How will supply chains be affected by China’s Belt and Road projects?May 14, 2019
Controversial centre piece of Xi Jinping’s foreign policy has spent billions with plenty more in the pipeline, but what are those projects?
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Toyota and Kenworth launch first of 10 zero-emission fuel cell trucks for LA portsMay 9, 2019
Toyota and Kenworth's jointly developed fuel cell electric heavy-duty trucks (FCET) will start full drayage operations at the Port of Los Angeles later this year
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50,000 warehouses to use robots by 2025Apr 9, 2019
By 2025, over 4 million commercial robots will be installed in over 50,000 warehouses, up from just under 4,000 robotic warehouses in 2018, according to ABI Research
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Report finds repair costs rising for industryApr 8, 2019
Repair costs are rising above inflation and benchmarking study also finds miles between roadside repairs unchanged with room for improvement
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Could 2019 be the year of the blockchain in logistics?Mar 25, 2019
Blockchain is most mentioned trend to watch in 2019 finds new report
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Time to turn around inventory falls by two days says new reportMar 20, 2019
The median number of days for a return to be added back into an inventory for resale has decreased from seven days to five, marking out a focus on speed in the retail supply chain
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Rising costs to challenge supply chain in 2019Mar 19, 2019
Huge e-commerce growth, low availability of labour and rising international shipping costs are putting upward pressure on operators across the supply chain finds a new report
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Automation in the supply chain to get major boost in 2019Mar 18, 2019
Warehouse automation and sensor technologies key focuses for investment heading into 2019
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Customer experience increasingly recognised as vital to supply chain operationsMar 13, 2019
More retailers than ever say that customer experience metrics are critical to their supply chain operations
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Free infographic: State of Retail Supply Chain 2019Mar 12, 2019
We have developed this infographic in the lead up to the 4th Annual D3 Retail Supply Chain Summit 2019 (May 6-8, Marriot Brooklyn, New York)
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E-commerce sales continue to explodeMar 11, 2019
E-commerce is forecast to increase from 25% of sales in 2018 to 40% of sales in 2023 but the physical store is suffering as a result says new report and survey
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Supply chain expects weak global growth in 2019Mar 6, 2019
Over a quarter of supply chain professionals surveyed for new report believe that there will be a recession in 2019
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Cost of cross-border shipping overwhelmingly expected to riseMar 4, 2019
82% of logistics service providers expect the cost of moving goods across borders to rise in 2019