Tag: technology

Walmart Inc. has cancelled its plan to use shelf-scanning robots to help with inventory in stores.

Global logistics company C.H. Robinson is bringing supply chain expertise and technology to the aid of grocery retailers facing unprecedented demand and consumer change during one of the busiest food shopping seasons of the year.

When it comes to the future of transportation, the possibilities seem endless, but implementation is a bit more daunting.

Mark Petersen, vice president of temperature-controlled transportation at Eden Prairie, MN-based C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. is a fan of the accelerometer.

While there is no disputing the pros of high-tech tools in transportation, there are some cons, and privacy is one of them.

Global logistics company C.H. Robinson is reinventing the way transportation is purchased with its launch of Procure IQ, a new tool that leverages data from the world’s largest shipper and carrier community to disrupt the decades-old tradition and one-size-fits-all annual bidding approach to buying freight transportation.

Choptank Transport, Inc. in Preston, MD is a third-party logistics broker that moves 150,000 loads per year. Geoff Turner, president of the company, says, “Our business is in the perishable space where we’ve been able to provide seamless visibility for our shippers, especially the smaller ones.

The irony of modern transportation and logistics is that the sophistication of today’s trucks and systems should attract techie millennials to maximize the data and take advantage of all the available features, but younger generations are shying away from the industry.

Hazel Technologies Inc., a USDA-funded technology company delivering new solutions for fresh produce to extend shelf-life, increase sales, and fight food waste, announces a completed melon export campaign with Dan Andrews Farms, grower of premium melons since 2007.

C.H. Robinson today announced industry-leading connectivity integrating an unprecedented 19 transportation management systems and enterprise resource planning systems into the company’s single, global multimodal transportation management system, Navisphere.