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Retailers are rethinking their inventory strategies, and are targeting their sales approach to keep inventory levels flat or slightly down, and while other corporations such as Walmart and Target are cutting back on their inventory, they have moved products to shelves in faster time.

For 3PL warehouses, the weeks, or even months, leading up to the holiday season can be among the busiest times of the year.

The acquisition of MacroPoint expands Descartes global logistics network connections to over 2 million trucking assets.

Today’s supply chains are experiencing high levels of change, in terms of both internal and external pressures.

Tesla's forthcoming long-haul, electric semi-truck will offer a self-driving mode and move in "platoons" that automatically follow a lead vehicle, Tesla and the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles are in discussions to begin testing a prototype.

Uber Freight, the on-demand trucking service created by Uber and introduced earlier this year, is expanding from its initial market of Texas to areas in California, Arizona, Chicago, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, Uber has also updated the app with new features that personalize the driver app with custom settings and recommendations based on their use.

DHL Supply Chain has made augmented reality supported glasses now business-as-usual in warehouses around the globe by proving the stability of functionalities and value of the solution and achieving productivity improvements averaging 15 percent, with higher accuracy rates and approval ratings by users.

As we head into the 2017 peak shipping season, the global ocean transportation market has stabilized, carriers are in a better position financially and the economy is trending upward, however, each year presents unique challenges to shippers looking to optimize ocean transportation spend while having access to the capacity needed to meet consumer demand.

While various futuristic delivery options are being developed and tested, they’re not yet trending, but keep your eyes on them for the future, especially when parcels can be delivered by autonomous vehicles or drones, that will change the last mile delivery game considerably.

FedEx Corp.’s TNT unit is still trudging through some transactions by hand and information systems may never fully recover from a June Petya cyberattack that is expected to deal a blow to earnings.

It’s safe to say that rate increases are inevitable and oftentimes unavoidable, that’s not to say that it’s impossible to soften the blow.

Supply chain executives agree that future supply chain performance will rely to a great extent on talent, and the continual focus on improving the current workforce and attracting new talent must be the new mandate for supply chain executives.

Infor has announced Coleman, an enterprise-grade, industry-specific AI platform that takes mission-critical business data from Infor CloudSuite, coupled with the supplier, logistics, and finance data from the GT Nexus Commerce Network, and analyzes it with the computing power of a hyper scale public cloud.

Amazon Prime Air cargo planes are fueled and ready to support prime day in the U.S. for the first time as Amazon's diverse delivery network continues to expand with new prime members being added around the world.

Information on all channels is shared in real-time and the role of retail stores is changing, customers need more professional help from staffs and want to choose, find and pay for products faster and more easily.

Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, has announced that every Volvo it launches from 2019 will have an electric motor, marking the historic end of cars that only have an internal combustion engine (ICE) and placing electrification at the core of its future business.

Q&A with Andrew Slusher, president and CEO, SMC³

Uber Freight, and other similar freight services, really has the potential to serve as a true disruptive influence sector in the world of truckload brokerage, creating a ripple effect of sorts.

Walmart has thousands of stores that sell hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of goods, and it's particularly strong in suburban and rural areas and among low- and middle-income consumers, but it’s playing catch-up with online retailer Amazon, who is on a collision course with Walmart to try to be the predominant seller of pretty much everything you buy.

What does the sharing economy mean for logistics? The sharing economy has already revolutionized how people travel between places – and now it’s beginning to transform how goods are transported.