UPS Stock Plummets on Amazon Announcement UPS shares plummeted 14% last week after announcing a gloomy forecast AND that they will cut their business by with Amazon by 50%. UPS found that smaller package deliveries (i.e. Amazon package deliveries) were not very profitable so they mutually agreed to lower their commitments to each other. Amazon…
Your Next iPhone Could Be Made by a Robot Apple’s main manufacturing partner, Foxconn, signed a deal with UBTech, to integrate their humanoid robots for iphone production. The humanoid robots have already completed “training” in their Shenzhen factory. Bird Flu Wreaking Havoc for Egg Supply The spread of bird flu among egg farms is wreaking…
Threat of Tariffs Encourages Supply Chains to Return to US As Trump’s return to office gets closer, his threats of slapping tariffs on many imports, means there’s incentive for businesses to consider moving their supply chains back to the US, just like this example here. Canada Looking to Take Advantage of Uranium Demand As countries…
US Manufacturing Continues to Decline According to a report by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), manufacturing in the US contracted last month despite the overall economy expanding. Some American manufacturers are excited about prospectively better outlook with incoming President Trump. US Oil Looking to Disrupt Saudi Arabia’s Dominance Saudi Arabia has long dominated oil…
How This Startup Is Solving the Charging Problem When It Comes to Electrification As supply chain and logistics providers work towards electrifying their fleet of vehicles, one of the hurdles is charging infrastructure. Israeli startup, Electreon, is trying to solve this problem by introducing wireless charging. To Tariff or Not to Tariff? President Elect Trump…
How Robots and Humans Will Work Together in Warehouses Let’s face it, automation will always happen, but human jobs won’t completely disappear. A hybrid of humans working along side robots is likely the future we’ll see. And Robust AI’s Carter Pro robot is likely to be one you may find working alongside your human workers….
Canadian Government Says No to Port Strikes We sound like a broken record when we write about port strikes (or potential strikes) in Vancouver and Montreal. As talks between both sides were going nowhere and Canada got tired of losing billions ($1.3 billion per day) of dollars in trade each day as the strikes prolonged,…
Retailers Getting Ready for Tariffs Now that the US Presidential elections are done, retailers have a clearer picture of what they need to do to prepare for potential tariffs that President Elect Trump has said he may enact. Brands like Steve Madden have a plan in place to counter potential additional tariffs on Chinese imports….
Canada Post Strike Looming As holidays start to ramp up, Canada Post has a looming strike hanging over everyone’s heads. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) announced they have voted in favour of going on strike should labour talks not come to agreement. Montreal Dock Workers Go On Partial Strike Canadian supply chains are…
Case Study: How General Mills Improved Its Supply Chain Snack giant, General Mills, deals with over 20,000(!!!) suppliers every year. The supply chain operations had still been operating the same it had since the late 90’s. That changed when new CEO, Jeff Harmening, came on board and implemented a goal of being the supply chain…