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Pros to Know: Creating Best-in-Class Solutions for Your Supply Chain with Owen Smith, Omnitracs

Mackenna Moralez sits down with Owen Smith, vice president of sales - new business, Omnitracs to discuss what it takes to develop best-in-class solutions for supply chains and how he helped clients adjust to changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

L.I.N.K. Live | SDCE Editors Talk Colonial Pipeline, Semiconductor Shortage and Last-Mile Logistics

Marina, Brielle and Mackenna recap top news items of the week.

Gartner names Kinaxis a Leader

Gartner names Kinaxis a Leader

Turn to a trusted advisor for answers. The Gartner 2021 Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions has recognized Kinaxis as a Leader.

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Avery Dennison Launches Industry 4.0-Focused Digital Venture

atma.io is applicable for global brands and retailers as well as real-time temperature monitoring of the COVID-19 vaccine vials.

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Bringg Report: More Than Half of Logistics Providers will Focus on Automation in Coming Year

41% say their biggest challenge to scaling last-mile operations is outdated business processes and manual operations, followed by legacy technology (36%), according to a report released by Bringg.

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Shifting Your Business From Manual to Automated Processes

Leading supply chain providers offer advice on how to transition your business’ processes from manual to automated for freight, healthcare, warehouse and dangerous goods sectors.

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Collaborators Push for Supply Chain Innovation

Attabotics, altaML and Amii join forces to grow innovative technology in supply chains to create a more cohesive and optimized industry.

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Manufacturing Rapidly Accelerating Past Recovery Toward a Digital Future

95% of industry leaders say the pandemic has had long-term effects on their business and 95% agree that digital transformation is essential to their company’s future success.

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Amazon Continues Fulfillment Center Additions, Invests in New Tech

Amazon adds another fulfillment center. This time in Richmond, Va. with state-of-the-art technology investments.

Gartner names Kinaxis a Leader

Gartner names Kinaxis a Leader

Turn to a trusted advisor for answers. The Gartner 2021 Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions has recognized Kinaxis as a Leader.

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How E-commerce Creates New Trends in Supply Chain Management

E-commerce trends are influencing the warehousing, manufacturing and logistics industry, indicating that it is becoming increasingly important for these industries to focus their efforts and attention on optimizing and developing automated solutions.

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How Robotics Breakthroughs are Transforming Manufacturing

The factories of tomorrow may look different, but their transformation by AI into robotic-powered factories of the future will represent a new era for lean manufacturing.

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3 Ways Tech is Disrupting the Shipping Industry

Here's how data automation, smart logistics platforms and autonomous vehicles are transforming the industry.

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Autonomous Trucking Gets Push Forward

Plus and IVECO sign an agreement to spread autonomous trucking development throughout China, Europe and other parts of the world.

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Waypoint, Productive Robotics Strive for Greater Accessibility in Partnership

Waypoint Robotics and Productive Robotics create a partnership focused on accessibility, combining products to create mobile manipulation.

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Schneider Electric Releases Software-Centric Automation System

The EcoStruxure Automation Expert V21.1 includes enhanced cybersecurity, diagnostics, discovery and commissioning features, and expanded libraries and language support.

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Ambi Robotics Taps Simulation-to-Reality AI For Fast Deployment

Following a seed funding round, Ambi Robotics focuses on faster roll outs for e-commerce distribution with its new advanced simulation-to-reality AI.

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ProMatDX Delivers In-Person Feel to Virtual Tradeshow

Editor-in-chief Marina Mayer details why she doesn't miss the fast-paced tradeshow life, but appreciates being able to connect "face-to-face."

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Toyota Material Handling Reduces Repetitive Tasks for Humans

Toyota Material Handling releases new carts for warehouses equipped with automation to help reduce repetitive tasks for warehouse workers.

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Sole Source Capital Acquires Peak-Ryzex, Optical Phusion to Create Market Leader in Factory Automation

The combination will yield significant technological and operational synergies as well as deliver enhanced cross-selling opportunities to a broad set of clients.

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Elemica’s OmPrompt Acquisition to Strengthen Supply Chain Automation

OmPrompt’s proprietary algorithms, machine learning and artificial intelligence will contribute to Elemica’s continued development and aggregation of automation technologies.

Gartner names Kinaxis a Leader

Gartner names Kinaxis a Leader

Turn to a trusted advisor for answers. The Gartner 2021 Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions has recognized Kinaxis as a Leader.

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Automation Will Improve Work, but Only if Upskilling Starts Now

Automation is only part of the transformation — technology alone is not the end all, be all. Your business still needs skilled human leaders and employees to drive innovation and growth.

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Survey Reveals Access to On-Demand Data and End-to-End Intelligence is Critical

Cost reduction and resource management of people and/or assets rose rank 45% and 38% respectively, followed by increased monetization of vehicles and assets (30%), connecting operations processes (20%) and business intelligence (17%).

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Top 6 Global Logistic Technology Trends in 2021

Improving mobility and productivity is a goal for almost all logistic companies in the last few years. This target can be achieved with innovative decisions and complicated approach.

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L.I.N.K. | Embark Reveals the Reality of Autonomous Trucking

In an interview with associate editor Brielle Jaekel, Embark head of business development explains where the world is currently at with driverless trucks.

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Supply Chain Trends to Expect in 2021

Anticipated advancement and investment in technology, an emphasis on collaboration and trusted partnerships, simplified carrier automation tools and industry-wide growth will lead the 3PL industry in the year ahead – paving the way for innovation.

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Salesforce Research Highlights Pandemic’s Destabilizing Effect on Manufacturing

According to the report, future-ready manufacturers are nearly twice as likely to be satisfied with their channel partners than unprepared manufacturers (44% prepared manufacturers vs. 25% unprepared manufacturers).

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85% of CFOs Expect Digitization to Improve Cash Flow, Profitability and Revenue

The survey revealed that companies spent close to $1 million on annual labor costs tied to manually entering data into their enterprise resource planning and back-end systems. They also spent nearly $600,000 on entering manual invoices from suppliers.

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Kenco Logistics Survey Reveals Supply Chain Professionals Willing to Invest in Innovation

When asked which technologies and initiatives are most important to them during the pandemic, supply chain visibility technology, predictive and adaptive analytics and robotics, automation and emerging solutions ranked as high priority.

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HAI ROBOTICS to Scale Autonomous Case-Handling Robotic System for Logistics Automation

HAI ROBOTICS' autonomous case-handling robotic system is used in 3PL, apparel, e-commerce, electronics, energy, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and other industries.

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Practical Considerations for Wearables and Robotics in the Warehouse

Having a practical understanding of how to quickly leverage new technology to increase warehouse productivity will help keep warehouse operations at peak performance levels.

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Frontline Workers Say Decline in Productivity Due to Poor Training on Mobile Tech Tools

The report suggests organizations re-assess the tools and techniques they use to ensure that workers are prepared and proficient regarding the technology needed to do their jobs.