{"id":12108,"date":"2017-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/news-insights\/articles\/supply-chain-and-logistics-recap-6-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T17:29:09","slug":"supply-chain-and-logistics-recap-6-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/us\/news-insights\/articles\/supply-chain-and-logistics-recap-6-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply chain and logistics recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a couple of weeks since we checked in. We posted our first piece in <a href=\"http:\/\/crimsonandco.info\/blog\/lean-supply-chain-operations\/\">Getting Started in Lean Supply Chain Operations, Step 1 of 5<\/a>. It&#8217;s been well-received and we&#8217;re looking forward to sharing the follow-up pieces to the first one! So stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>We are happy to be back to our regularly scheduled posting schedule of our Recap and blogging.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Amazon buyout of Whole Foods still has everyone talking. There are discussions about how it will change brick and mortar locations and now here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truckinginfo.com\/news\/story\/2017\/07\/8-ways-the-amazon-whole-foods-deal-may-change-trucking.aspx?cid=12719\">an article on how it could impact trucking. TruckingInfo.com reports<\/a>, &#8221; They could potentially transform almost every aspect of our economy and long-held models of consumer behavior. And certainly, no market segment will be hit harder, or sooner, than logistics and transportation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>SupplyChainDigest has posted a video on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scdigest.com\/NEWSVIEWS\/17-07-17-2.PHP?CID=12724\">Supply Chain News Makers Video Series. Gartner&#8217;s Dwight Klappich on Highlights from the 2017 Supply Chain Study<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmh.com\/article\/robotic_piece_picking_hits_tipping_point\/inventory\">Modern Materials Handling has an article on Robotic Piece Picking a<\/a>nd how it&#8217;s hitting its tipping point.\u00a0They report that first companies have to figure out their robotic &#8220;packability&#8221; and evaluate if it&#8217;s doable for their particular SKUs.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yaro-tenzer-3832248\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yaro Tenzer<\/a>, co-founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.righthandrobotics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RightHand Robotics<\/a>, the industries that work best with robotics are pharmaceutical, grocery, and health and beauty.<\/li>\n<li>Today it was reported by Patrick Burnson, Executive Editor from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmr.com\/article\/u.s._supply_chain_infrastructure_healthy_says_fitch_ratings\">Supply Chain Management Review that the U.S. Infrastructure is &#8220;healthy.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Things are solid, with slow growth in some areas and more in others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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":12109,"template":"","categories":[146],"class_list":["post-12108","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 v27.4 - 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-and-logistics-recap-6-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=\"It&#8217;s been a couple of weeks since we checked in. 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