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EV Makers’ Course Hinges on U.S. Election

Both of the major-party presidential candidates have said they support electric vehicles, but a Biden win could bring changes to significantly speed up the adoption of cars and trucks built by the likes of Tesla Inc. and Nikola Corp.

An electric vehicle sits at a charging station. Photo: Shutterstock.

Four Essentials for a Greener Fulfillment Strategy

From smart cartonization to last-mile delivery and beyond, supply chains offer fertile ground for new technologies to improve sustainability by trimming wasted fuel, materials and time.

Five Ways Retailers Can Take Charge of Product Returns

Retailers have a growing number of options to make the best of reverse logistics.

Five Challenges for Voice Technology in the Warehouse

Voice recognition software can cut costs and save time, but is it worth the investment in licenses and training?

Intel Puts Its Indirect-Materials Spend on the Road to Digitization

Tackling the job of assessing all of its contracts for indirect-materials spend, Intel Corp. scraps a laborious and outdated manual process, and puts its entire supply chain on the road to digitization.

A technician monitors the manufacture of silicon wafers in Silicon Valley. Photo: Bloomberg.

Walmart Uses Blockchain to Fix ‘Broken’ Freight Audit and Payment Process

The giant retailer undertakes an ambitious initiative to make sense of its painfully complex freight payment and reconciliation process, involving its own fleet as well as those of outside carriers, and moving more than half a million shipments a year.

Packages move along a conveyor belt inside a Walmart Inc. fulfillment center. Photo: Bloomberg.

Land O’Lakes Shrinks Empty Miles Through Industry Collaboration

The big agribusiness and food cooperative sets out to optimize truck capacity and save on transportation costs through use of a software tool that enables the sharing of space on selected routes.

Photo: Bloomberg

A Better Box Is Saving Millions of Dollars at Intel

Intel Corp.'s new shipping solution for 300-millimeter silicon wafers has cut material and freight cost by 70%.

‘Hydrogen Wars’ Pit Europe v. China for $700 Billion Business

Governments, energy giants, automobile companies and lobbying groups say hydrogen use is pivotal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions quickly enough to prevent the worst effects of climate change.

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E2open Enables GEODIS to Deliver for Online Retailers

E2open, a cloud-based supply chain software provider, has recently enabled GEODIS, a global logistics provider.

Podcast | A U.S. Producer Challenges China’s Dominance in Rare Earth Mining

The 17 “rare earth” minerals that are essential to so many high-tech products today, from electric cars to magnets and military systems, aren’t literally rare, but their mining and production is.

Annealed neodymium iron boron magnets sit in a barrel prior to being crushed into powder. One of several rare earth elements, neodymium is critical to the motors used in electric vehicles. Photo: Bloomberg.

Cargill to Add Giant Sails to Cargo Ships to Curb Emissions

The initiative will improve the efficiency of whichever new fuels — from hydrogen to liquefied natural gas — are eventually adopted, the agricultural commodities giant says.

A gantry crane loads a shipping container filled with corn for export from a grain terminal operated by Cargill Inc. Photo: Bloomberg.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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