This was a busy week for supply chain and logistics conferences, with Manhattan Associates, RedPrairie, and Transplace (among others) holding events this week. With 52 weeks in a year, why cram so many industry events into a single week? I still can’t figure it out, but we’ll share our takeaways from the events we attended next week. In the meantime, here’s the news that caught our attention this week:
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New product introductions and Q1 results dominated the news this week, so let’s get right to it.
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Should I be concerned that Opening Day for the (1 win, 5 losses) Red Sox falls on Friday the 13th?
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Amazon.com’s acquisition of Kiva Systems keeps coming up in my conversations with industry peers and colleagues. Kiva is a provider of advanced robotic material handling systems — or looked at in an alternative way, the company brought to market much more intelligent Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) than we had seen before. Adrian wrote about the acquisition shortly after it occurred. Now I’d like to add my two cents… Continue reading
Last October I bought three new shovels in anticipation of another cold, snowy winter. The snow and cold never came, and it was 81 degrees here in Boston yesterday. This coming October I will buy a snow blower.
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