The reBound Podcast: How Pitney-Bowes is innovating with autonomous vehicles.

On this episode, PBs SVP of  operations excellence and collaborative innovation discusses why and how the leader in global shipping and mailing is integrating autonomous trucks into its fleet.


Listen in as Stephanie Cannon discusses how Pitney Bowes is embracing autonomous vehicles for mid-mile deliveries.  

On this episode of The reBound, Stephanie Cannon joins Abe Eshkenazi, CEO of the Association for Supply Chain Management, and Bob Trebilcock, consulting editor of Supply Chain Management Review, to discuss a new approach to mid-mile deliveries in the e-commerce supply chain. Cannon is the senior vice president of operations excellence and collaborative innovation at Pitney Bowes, where her team is working with the startup community to bring in high levels of automatic sortation and robotics to its distribution centers and now autonomous trucks to deliver parcels from its distribution centers to USPS depots in several states.

Cannon, who was a presenter at NextGen2023, explains why one of the world’s leaders in global shipping and mailing decided to adopt autonomous trucks; how it worked with a solution provider to design a system for autonomous deliveries; and how it is now rolling out the fleet of trucks in multiple locations.

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And click here to read more about Pitney-Bowes on Modern Materials Handling.


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Bob Trebilcock
Bob Trebilcock is the executive editor for Modern Materials Handling and an editorial advisor to Supply Chain Management Review. He has covered materials handling, technology, logistics, and supply chain topics for nearly 30 years. He is a graduate of Bowling Green State University. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at 603-852-8976.
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