
H&M partners with Google to enhance its supply chain with advanced AI and ML capabilities
Google Cloud will collaborate with H&M to develop an enterprise data backbone including a core data platform, data product, and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities.

Panasonic Building $4 Billion Automated Factory For New Tesla Batteries In Kansas
Panasonic Holdings will invest $4 billion in a second U.S. electric vehicle battery factory in Kansas, its subsidiary Panasonic Energy announced on Thursday, confirming an earlier Nikkei report. The factory is expected to hire as many as 4,000 employees and supply a new high-capacity battery for Tesla.

Nike launching its new ERP system in a bid to increase inventory visibility and productivity
Nike’s ERP launch comes as the retailer continues to face elevated in-transit inventories and extended lead times to get products to market, issues that the new technology system could be instrumental in tackling.

United Legwear & Apparel Co. building 'half-mile long' automated facility in Southern California
ULAC specializes in legwear, bodywear, apparel and accessories for brands like Hurley, Champion, Fortnite, Van Heusen, Skechers and PUMA

American Eagle’s Hottest Business Isn’t Jeans — It’s Logistics
After acquiring two supply-chain start-ups last year, the teen retailer wants to build an ‘open source’ shipping and storage network it thinks can someday be a bigger business than selling clothes.

A 'cavernous' Walmart e-commerce fulfillment center opens in Pennsylvania
The cavernous warehouse building includes 1.8 million square feet of space to build out Walmart’s growing e-commerce business.

Amazon and Walmart are counting on wearable tech to reduce workplace injuries
Tech startups like Kinetic, Modjoul and StrongArm, inspired by the popularity of Fitbits, Apple Watches and other consumer wearables, are selling similar devices to companies like Walmart and Amazon with the promise they’ll reduce the nagging — and costly — problem of worker injuries.
Amazon proposing towering 107-foot tall robotic warehouse for Niagara
Amazon plans to spend more than a half-billion dollars to develop a 3.1-million-square-foot distribution center in the Town of Niagara.

Robots Aren’t Done Reshaping Warehouses
The pace of automation has accelerated in the pandemic, as big players invest billions in their efforts to streamline how goods are sorted and shipped.

Amazon's SIN9 facility is focused on getting customer's orders in the quickest possible manner
The unique 100,000-square-foot facility is roughly a tenth of the size of a traditional fulfillment facility and is the first facility of its kind in the Indianapolis area.
Cadillac Fairview, Teachers and ex-Shopify exec gamble on a new, old model for online returns: showing up in person
The online retail industry’s return process has long been fraught. It bogs down supply chains, adds costs and takes a toll on the environment through fuel burned during all that transportation – and through products that end up in landfills rather than being resold.
Amazon planning massive 107-foot tall automated fulfillment center in Niagara
Amazon plans to spend more than a half-billion dollars to develop a 3.1-million-square-foot distribution center in the Town of Niagara.

How the Nuro Robotic Delivery Car Was Built
If an automated car was only designed to transport goods, what would that look like?

JBS Foods Canada to automate new Alberta plant with ASRS robotic shuttle
International meat packer JBS has enlisted a major robotics and automation company to overhaul the warehousing system at one of Canada’s biggest beef plants.

Coca-Cola Is Launching a Revolutionary New Robotic Barista
Coca-Cola may be stepping on Starbucks' toes soon. The iconic soda company has been looking toward innovation to break out of the boundaries and open new doors.

Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
In a series of incidents, the GM subsidiary lost contact with its autonomous vehicles, leaving them frozen in traffic and trapping human drivers.

The grocery wild card: Could Amazon fully overtake Walmart?
Though grocery has long been a dependable source of success for Walmart, it is becoming a wild card as Amazon is potentially learning how to beat the 60-year-old retail icon at its own game.
Robots are taking over China’s warehouses
After years of technical build-up, China’s logistics robots are now entering the stage of large-scale commercial use.

Goodbye, little robots. Why Save Mart’s Modesto grocery delivery program ended abruptly
The little white robots that had become part of Modesto’s landscape as they rolled around town delivering groceries are no more.

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