{"id":11850,"date":"2016-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/news-insights\/articles\/supply-chain-logistics-recap-8-2-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T19:17:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:17:48","slug":"supply-chain-logistics-recap-8-2-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/us\/news-insights\/articles\/supply-chain-logistics-recap-8-2-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply chain and logistics recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We hope you had a great and restorative weekend! We have some interesting links for you to check today, so grab an afternoon coffee and take a moment to catch up:<\/p>\n<p><strong>I.<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ttnews.com\/articles\/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=42719&amp;t=Port-of-Memphis-Plans-Public-Terminal-Overhaul-Strategic-Plan\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Port of Memphis is about to get an overhaul<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The city-county Port Commission has been seeking funding for a $50 million overhaul of its 63-year-old public dock, where river access has been severely curtailed since a series of high and low water events earlier this decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>II<\/strong>.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PricewaterhouseCoopers has some interesting data from the second quarter, as well as some good forecasts for the logistics and transportation industries. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/transport-and-logistics-m-a-cooling-from-torrid-2015-pace-1469700008\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PwC transportation and logistics consultant Andy Schmahl<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shared, \u201cIncremental developments in technology are coming more fast and furious\u2014faster than any one transportation company can develop in and of itself,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ll start seeing companies using acquisition to increase their capabilities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>III<\/strong>.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scdigest.com\/firstthoughts\/16-07-28.php?cid=11025&amp;ctype=content\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supply Chain Digest<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; an in-depth look at data from the World Bank. \u201cEvery couple of years, the folks at the World Bank (which is headquartered in Washington DC, if you didn&#8217;t know) put out a report analyzing the logistics competencies of most nation&#8217;s across the globe&#8230;SCDigest summarizes\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>IV.<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last month ShipBob raised $4 million in Series A funding. The company has now announced that <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/shipbob-expands-to-los-angeles-bringing-the-power-of-amazon-scale-logistics-to-small-businesses-across-the-country-300305611.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ShipBob has entered the Los Angeles market<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. With this move ShipBob is now active in the three largest cities in the United States. Expanding to LA represents a significant step forward for ShipBob, whose mission is to provide the power of Amazon-scale logistics to small businesses everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/loveshipbob\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ShipBob<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"intro--medium\"><strong>As of September 8, 2020, Crimson &amp; Co (formerly The Progress Group\/TPG) has rebranded as Argon &amp; Co following the successful merger with Argon Consulting in April 2018.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11851,"template":"","categories":[146],"class_list":["post-11850","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-supply-chain-recaps"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Supply chain and logistics recap - Argon &amp; Co<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/us\/news-insights\/articles\/supply-chain-logistics-recap-8-2-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supply chain and logistics recap - Argon &amp; Co\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We hope you had a great and restorative weekend! 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