Global DCM

Starbucks | January 22, 2020

Starbucks will work to become a "resource positive" company, CEO Kevin Johnson shared in a public letter Tuesday. Resource positive means storing more carbon than the company emits, eliminating waste and providing more clean freshwater than the company uses, according to the letter. Though Johnson laid out some initial targets for reduction in the letter, Starbucks will formalize 2030 goals in 2021 and suppliers and licensees, among other stakeholders, will need to get on board, the CE...

Armstrong & Associates | June 15, 2020

Rapid technological changes to the Domestic Transportation Management (DTM) Third-Party Logistics Market segment have occurred over the last five years. Today a Transportation Management System to run DTM operations is "table stakes" and is just one of the first steps in developing a truly digital freight brokerage operation. The race is on between new Digital Freight Brokers (DFBs) such as Convoy, Uber Freight, and Transfix, which are banking on proprietary digital freight matching te...

Supply Chain

businesswire | June 20, 2023

Fabric, the technology company reshaping retail fulfillment, has scored two major wins for its innovative automated fulfillment solution. The company was named to the inaugural XB100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private deep tech companies, published by XPRIZE and Bessemer Venture Partners. Fabric also won Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s Top Supply Chain Products Award, which profiles innovative case study-type projects designed to automate, optimize, strea...

Software and Technology

Advanced Solutions | May 04, 2022

Advanced Solutions, creators of the AdvancedDock Yard and dock management platform and AdvancedBOL (Electronic Bill of Lading), announced the release and support for their new logistics Smart SealTM. The new product utilizes AdvancedDock to support the ability to seal and capture load and truck information digitally."Smart Seal™ allows our customers to improve the accuracy of data collection for truck and container shipments from shipper to final destination, &q...