{"id":12011,"date":"2017-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/news-insights\/articles\/supply-chain-logistics-recap-25-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T18:56:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:56:34","slug":"supply-chain-logistics-recap-25-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/us\/news-insights\/articles\/supply-chain-logistics-recap-25-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply chain and logistics recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it Winter, is it Spring? We&#8217;re not sure either. We know that many people both personally and professionally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/weather-news\/wintry-weather-to-return-to-midwestern-northeastern-us-late-this-week\/70001117\">are impacted by the &#8220;Nor&#8217;easter&#8221;<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nor%27easter\">meaning of Nor&#8217;easter here)<\/a>\u00a0weather system. We&#8217;ve heard about delivery concerns and of course, issues, as the weather impacts all modes of transportation in some areas. Stay safe while your on the roads!<\/p>\n<p><strong>I. <\/strong>Since weather is on the minds of nearly every newscaster and every shipping\/delivery company AND many of our clients, here&#8217;s a recap from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logisticsmgmt.com\/article\/watching_the_weather\">Logistics Management and weather alerts<\/a>. They&#8217;ll be updating it regularly if you&#8217;d like to keep abreast over the next few days. One thing for sure is that company management all over the northeast are watching the news, making adjustments and using their plans they (hopefully) have in place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II.<\/strong> Speaking of nature throwing business into a crisis mode, have you checked the readiness of your company for a natural disaster? What is your company&#8217;s plan?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/bizjournals\/how-to\/human-resources\/2016\/08\/3-ways-to-to-prepare-business-for-natural-disaster.html\"> Here are three general ways to prepare your business<\/a>&#8230; Safety, IT\/Communications and Everything Else from The Business Journals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III.<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/14\/delivery-management-platform-bringg-raises-10-million-to-help-any-business-take-on-amazon\/\">Speaking of delivery, start-up in 2013 Bringg<\/a> &#8211; a delivery management platform, raised $10 million dollars in its second funding round, founded by\u00a0Raanan Cohen, former founder and CEO of MobileMax; and Lior Sion, previously the CTO of Gett\u00a0and Clarizen.com.\u00a0\u201cAmazon and Uber have pushed the customer expectations to levels we\u2019ve never seen before,\u201d says\u00a0Sion. \u201cFor consumers, it\u2019s now very weird if we order something and it takes a week to come, and we don\u2019t know exactly when it\u2019s coming. The experience is very uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcvelocity.com\/articles\/20170313-highjump-expands-voice-picking-tools-for-smb-market\/\">DC Velocity reports that\u00a0industry technology provider HighJump Software Inc. acquired <\/a>voice-directed picking technology vendor Vitech Business Group Inc.recently in a quiet deal\u00a0to grow the organization.\u00a0HighJump bought<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitechgroup.com\/\">\u00a0Vitech<\/a>\u00a0for which the deal\u00a0expands\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.highjump.com\/supply-chain-management-solutions\/hardware\">HighJump&#8217;s business in providing voice-directed picking technologies<\/a>\u00a0through its partnerships.<\/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":12012,"template":"","categories":[146],"class_list":["post-12011","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 v28.7 - 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-25-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=\"Is it Winter, is it Spring? 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