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Drones Connect with RFID to Catalog Inventory

Posted on January 10, 2018 by | Leave a comment

A new application from MIT attempts to correct issues of inventory shrinkage ‘in the bins’ as they say.  They use a drone to read the RFID tags on items without sending a human out to scan the bins.

Watch out for flying objects at Home Depot!

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Innovation: Blockchain survey

Posted on January 10, 2018 by | Leave a comment

From Deloitte comes their Deloitte Blockchain Survey 2017.  It’s an online report of their findings.  The report is about investing and executive views in the blockchain technology.  There’s a lot of floundering as you would expect from a new technology that’s poorly understood, and whose possible applications are not well understood either.

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Stifel Top 10 “Game Changers” in Logistics

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This is the first  of two articles on the investment firm Stifel’s opinion of the top game changers in Logistics.  It’s a summary of the report Stifel recently issued.

One of their interesting views is that for all the talk of automation coming, actually in logistics people are seeing shortages of blue collar workers to do the jobs that are needed now. the automation isn’t coming fast enough to help firms with a problem getting labor. Their argument points to autonomous trucks and the world wide driver shortage.  Autonomous trucks are coming, but nowhere near fast enough to replace the dozens of folks leaving truck driving now.   It won’t bail us out.

Another point they make is that the e-commerce strategy of placing inventory further forward in the supply chain to be closer to customers may come up against a real shortage of places to put it, particularly in urbanized areas.  This makes Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods look very good indeed as a strategy.

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