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U.S. Manufacturing is Growing but Employment Not Keeping Pace
While President Biden continues to invest in U.S. manufacturing, job opportunities are simply not keeping up with the industry's growth.
The Two Most Important Factors in Last-Mile Delivery
A new Microsoft report on last-mile delivery reveals that speed and cost are the two most important factors, as customer satisfaction takes a backseat,
Spotlight Startup: Cart.com is Reimagining Logistics
Starting a company is hard work. We sat down with Cart.com co-founder Remingtom Tonar to discuss his company's early success, growing pains, and more.
Walmart and Swisslog Expand Partnership with New Texas Facility
Walmart and Swisslog are teaming up for a third time to implement automation at the retail giant's new Texas milk processing facility.

Technology Resources

Direct-to-Consumer Beverage Distributor Optimizes Fulfillment Operations
One of the largest online direct-to-consumer beverage distributors in the nation wanted to optimize its multi-carrier fulfillment operation...
Artifical Intelligence Transforms Procurement
In this whitepaper by JAGGAER, we explore insights and practical approaches for integrating AI into your procurement operations.


Technology News

How the Internet of Things Transforms Trucking
Beyond smart trucks, the next evolution of IoT logistics will see the entire supply chain linked with connected things, the Internet of Everything, and with falling costs for smart tags, pallets will talk to trailers, containers will talk to trucks and fleets could talk to fleets.

Google Partners with Ford on Self-Driving Vehicles
Google will soon be one step closer to bringing its autonomous car technology to the consumer market, as a report yesterday claims the company is teaming up with Ford on a project that could lead to automated ride sharing services.

Are Drones the New iPhone?
Those working in the drone industry have a lot of support in Silicon Valley with drone start-ups having already raised nearly $200 million in venture capital funding, according to CB Insights, that's a 60 percent jump over the total raised last year.

Ford Begins Autonomous Vehicle Testing in California
Fully autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid sedans are taking to California streets next year, as Ford Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto continues growing.

How Smart Is Today’s Artificial Intelligence?
The field of artificial intelligence is pushing new boundaries and Hari Sreenivasan has the first in a series of stories about it and the concerns over where it may lead.

Elon Musk Launches $1Billion Fund to Save the World from Artificial Intelligence
Prominent tech executives, including Elon Musk, have pledged $1bn for OpenAI, a non-profit venture that aims to develop artificial intelligence (AI) to benefit humanity.

Internet of Things and the Supply Chain: The Complexity of Staying Connected
The tech world is abuzz with how the Internet of Things (IoT) will change everything - usually for the better; it could be the dawn of incredible connectivity, speed and efficiency.

FORTE Secrets of the Smart Warehouse
Ten ways to think smarter about distribution center design. This paper will review four functional areas that are key to smart warehouse design and operation.

A Preview of the Upcoming OLEDs
Many skeptics speculated that OLEDs wouldn’t last, would be too expensive and would be overwhelmed by the LCD juggernaut, much has changed in 14 years.

Apple OLED Display & LG’s $8.7 Billion New Plant
There’s another hint that Apple’s iPhone screen is about to go OLED with LG confirming that it will invest $8.4 billion in a new OLED plant that suggest the Korean giant is preparing for a large supply chain demand for OLED displays.

How Digital is Changing Black Friday
More than half of U.S. consumers say they rely less on Black Friday than they used to, and Black Friday weekend sales tumbled 11% last year as the number of shoppers fell by more than 5%.

OPEX Corporation Awarded Manufacturer of the Year at National Manufacturing Day
OPEX Corporation, a recognized global technology leader in high-speed mailroom automation, document imaging and material handling, is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of the NJMEP/NJBIZ Manufacturer of the Year Award in the Large Corporation category.

Falcon Universal Document Scanning Workstation
Falcon allows operators to prep and scan documents at a faster rate than most current prep only processes.

E-Commerce Agility
Rising competition, changing business needs, and tightening budgets are driving companies to seek more flexible alternatives to traditional e-commerce platform providers.

Let Supply Chain Technology Tame Your Black Friday Beast
Seasonal or event-related retail ‘spikes’ such as Black Friday are becoming ever more extreme, and can seriously affect even supply chains that are not directly involved...smart selection, implementation and execution of appropriate supply chain and related systems can, however, remove much of the risk and fear, ‘smooth’ the peaks, and ensure continuity of service to your customers.

Digital Predator or Digital Prey?
The dinosaurs of today will become digital prey by 2020 unless they can learn to master digital - in which case, there is every possibility they can become tomorrow’s digital predators.

Cisco Ericsson to Accelerate Digital Transformation
Cisco and Ericcson yesterday announced a huge new partnership that they believe will generate $1 billion for each company by 2018.

Toyota’s $1 Billion Artificial Intelligence, Robotics R&D ‘New Company’ Investment
Toyota plans a major push into artificial intelligence and robotics technology research and will invest $1 billion over the next five years to establish a Silicon Valley research and development center to pursue those goals.

3 Use Cases for Cloud Integration Platforms
How many cloud platforms do you drift through in a day...It might be more than you think.

The Economics of Digital Identity
Companies that successfully harness the identity issue will be able to roll out compelling new products and services more quickly and effectively than those that do not.


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Bastian Solutions
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Pitney Bowes is a global technology company offering innovative products and solutions that enable commerce in the areas of customer information management, location intelligence, customer engagement, shipping and mailing, and global ecommerce. More than 1.5 million clients in approximately 100 countries around…
Robotics Virtual Organization
An American robotics network is being launched. The network is termed the Robotics Virtual Organization (Robotics VO). The formation of the network is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, but has to be self-sufficient by the end of the first…
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Ware2Go
Ware2Go is a flexible and on-demand warehousing and fulfillment network, enabling seamless inventory and order management.
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