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Image via Flickr by Eva Renaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer ASOS.com is an online fashion retailer, offering 60,000 products, including womenswear, menswear, footwear, accessories, jewellery and beauty. They offer both brand names and own label merchandise. The retailer rolls out about 1,500 new product lines per week. They service 6.5 million active customers, with about…
Image via Flickr jurvetson It will still be a decade or more before driverless trucks and other vehicles are commonplace in the shipping industry, but Otto just made an important step towards this reality. The Uber subsidiary made the first revenue-generating shipment by driverless truck on October 20, 2016.Oops! You don’t have permission to view…
Image via Flickr by DennisM2 AkzoNobel is a company based in the Netherlands that develops, manufactures, and distributes a variety of paints, specialty paints, coatings, and DIY products, including home maintenance paints and coatings, as well as coatings and paints for the automotive industry, shipping industry, and aircraft industry. In business since the 1770s, AkzoNobel…
Image via Flickr by nSeika Robotics has long been a key component of the shipping industry, as robots can efficiently and cheaply perform simple, repetitive tasks that factor importantly into logistics. In recent years, however, robotics has begun to fill a more advanced role in the supply chain. Learn how robotics has taken on a…
Image via Flickr We have moved! Please visit /highwaysengland Freight truck volume in the U.S. is projected to double over the next decade. This causes significant concern for the environment, road maintenance costs, and highway traffic congestion. Many believe, however, that more trucks are a necessity for economic growth. Take a look at this two-sided…
Image via Flickr by thetaxhaven Whether you have 20 years of procurement experience or you’re new on the supply chain scene, negotiating contracts with suppliers is often intimidating and stressful. Procurement professionals aren’t always trained in the art of negotiation, although the salespeople they’re working with are usually very well-trained. These easy steps will give…