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You can pick your friends, and your friends can pack a box, but you can’t pick & pack a box without your friends

Posted on November 13, 2018 by LLovegood

Amazon's "Open Innovation" approach to solving warehouse automation

DHL: Cracking Logistics with the help of Machine Learning

Posted on November 13, 2018 by CrackingLogistics

DHL is using Machine Learning and AI to augment its vast logistics platform.

Where is my package? DHL’s machine learning works to provide more reliable data to customers

Posted on November 13, 2018 by B9430222

DHL utilizes machine learning to optimize the supply chain and track packages directly to your door.

Canada: Flexport’s next AI-first office? 

Posted on November 13, 2018 by GGL

Flexport, a software-powered freight forwarding company, needs to build an AI-first office in Canada in order to improve its product development and global operations.

Revolutionizing an entire supply chain: additive manufacturing and the US Army

Posted on November 13, 2018 by JL

The US military’s logistics and distribution system is one of the largest in the world, costing US taxpayers over $34bn per year. How will additive manufacturing change the way distribution is done in the Army?

UPS: Improving Global Supply Chains and Last-Mile Delivery with Machine Learning

Posted on November 10, 2018 by Yury Kapko

e-Commerce caused explosion of home deliveries and gave consumers more power. How UPS employed the AI to solve these issues.

Revolutioning the seas: Rolls-Royce and Intel to build fully autonomous ships

Posted on November 10, 2018 by Leonardo Hugo Lujan

As global commerce pushes for a more efficient and effective supply chain, Rolls-Royce is promising to disrupt the main transport mode for long-distance trade: maritime shipping. The implications of Machine Learning developments to deploy autonomous unmanned ocean-going ships by 2035.

When Scaling Alone No Longer Scales: Maersk’s Digital Transformation Journey

Posted on November 15, 2017 by RVD

While Maersk and others in the shipping and logistics industry historically have maintained profits through scaling ship size and market consolidation, new challenges require them to embrace digitalization of the supply chain in order to survive.

AUGMENTED REALITY: A GAME-CHANGER FOR THE LOGISTICS OF TOMORROW

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Jasmyn Beausejour

Warehousing operations is big business. It is a $141B business in the US alone and accounts for 10% of all logistics costs [1].  Estimates suggest picking items from shelves represents 65% of those costs, or $92B (Figure 1) [2]. The process is […]

Cold chain innovation: DHL fights to stay relevant in a digitized industry

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Katie G

Can DHL use digital innovation to take advantage of the $13.4bn market opportunity in pharmaceutical cold chain logistics?

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