Welcome to Lift Truck Supply’s Forklift Friday Fast 5. Each week we will be sharing articles from around the web to keep you up to date on the latest news, technology, and interesting happenings in the material handling, distribution, logistics, and supply chain arena.
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- Walmart Joins with Microsoft to Challenge Amazon Hoping to make “shopping faster and easier for millions of customers around the world,” Walmart announced on July 17 that it has joined with Microsoft to accelerate its
- GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN – US Manufacturers are Not Reshoring Take a look at how the reshoring of American Manufacturing is fairing…
- Adding Value to Your Supply Chain: Seven Cardinal Sins to Avoid Companies need to come clean and eliminate common supply chain offenses to deliver the greatest value to their customers.
- WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS – PX, I love you When the military expanded its online PX shopping privileges last fall, eager customers flooded its website with orders. New warehouse software and automated equipment helped its DCs cope with the deluge.
- Blockchain Zoo Spawns CryptoKitties and Fishcoins A basic definition of blockchain isn’t that tough to grasp—it’s like a shared spreadsheet (a “distributed ledger”) that can’t be changed by any individual member without the approval of their trading partners. That high security also lets some groups make their own web-based money, using blockchain as the technological foundation for virtual currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. But blockchain quickly gets weird when you look at some of the more creative ways it gets applied.
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