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Digital Journal | April 05, 2020

Warehouse management system (WMS) is a software application that helps manage operations in warehouses in the most efficient and productive manner. The warehouse management system market is expected to reach USD 4.82 billion by 2024 from USD 2.06 billion in 2018, at a CAGR of 15.2% from 2018 to 2024. The growth of this market can be attributed to the growth in the e-commerce industry, emerging multichannel distribution channels, globalization of supply chain networks, increased adoption of on-cl...

JD Logistics | February 07, 2020

JD Logistics is deploying delivery staff, autonomous shuttles and drones to deliver medical and commercial cargo throughout coronavirus quarantine zones in Wuhan and Hubei Province in China, the company said Thursday. Customers in the region have been ordering goods online as a means of minimizing human contact in stores, the company said in a release. As a result, the company's autonomous warehouses have fulfilled nearly double their usual number of daily orders, from 600,000 to 1 million b...

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DHL | November 19, 2020

Accuray Incorporated and DHL Supply Chain reported today they have gone into a worldwide help parts logistics organization that will additionally fortify the Accuray secondary selling supply chain and extend the organization's excellent client support internationally. The objective of the arrangement is to furnish clinical consideration groups with ceaseless admittance to the radiotherapy advancements they have to convey more limited, customized and viable therapies to patients with cancerou...

SacRT | January 13, 2020

Uber and Lyft are about to get some competition from an on-demand public transit system in Sacramento, California. Via has teamed up with the Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) to create what they call the largest “microtransit system” in America. That’s heartening to hear for me, as I grew up in Sacramento and used to ride buses all over town in my youth. It means that the public will be able to hail rides from apps and the city’s public transportation departme...