{"id":12432,"date":"2018-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/news-insights\/articles\/supply-chain-logistics-recap-63-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T16:47:08","slug":"supply-chain-logistics-recap-63-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/us\/news-insights\/articles\/supply-chain-logistics-recap-63-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply chain and logistics recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14126 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/supply-chain-blockchain-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Warehousing, Blockchain and automation are the topics for this week&#8217;s Supply Chain &amp; Logistics Recap. We hope you are enjoying your Summer, and for some of you, getting ready for some time off for July 4 holiday next week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supplychaindive.com\/news\/warehouse-logistics-latin-america-regulation-NAFTA\/526681\/\">Latin America for warehousing<\/a>? <\/strong>Supply Chain Drive reports, &#8220;A booming e-commerce market is attracting warehouses, but politics and infrastructure pose challenges.&#8221; While both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Amazon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhl.com\/en.html\">DHL<\/a> are making plans to open warehouses in Latin America, there are NAFTA complications along with potential infrastructure issues that are being analyzed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Microsoft &amp; Blockchain. <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3191077\/security\/what-is-blockchain-the-most-disruptive-tech-in-decades.html\">The Daily Hodl is reporting in a piece that just went live<\/a> a couple of hours ago, that Microsoft is planning to cut costs by beginning the process of using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3191077\/security\/what-is-blockchain-the-most-disruptive-tech-in-decades.html\">Blockchain<\/a> to manage payments for gaming developers.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/author\/Lucas-Mearian\/\"> Lucas Mearian<\/a>, Senior Reporter with Computerworld, wrote, &#8220;Blockchain is poised to change IT in much the same way open-source software did a quarter of a century ago. And in the same way that Linux took more than a decade to become a cornerstone in modern application development, Blockchain will take years to become a lower cost, more efficient way to share information between open and private networks.&#8221; We are keeping our eye on Blockchain news at Argon &amp; Co North America. We noticed, just yesterday, this article <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/walmart-ibm-blockchain-initiative-aims-to-track-global-food-supply-chain\">about the global food supply chain<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automation feasibility<\/strong>. A few days ago we sent an email to clients and prospects to let them know that Argon &amp; Co offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.industryweek.com\/warehousing-and-distribution\/automation-warehouse-asset-or-obstacle\">unbiased advice on automation feasibility so we read this piece with interest.\u00a0 <\/a>We and our clients know what is posted by Industry Week, &#8220;&#8230;it is critically important to remember that automation does not provide a one-size-fits-all answer to every organization\u2019s needs. It\u2019s really up to each company to do its due diligence to see if automation makes economic sense.&#8221;<\/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":12436,"template":"","categories":[146],"class_list":["post-12432","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 v28.4 - 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-logistics-recap-63-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=\"Warehousing, Blockchain and automation are the topics for this week&#8217;s Supply Chain &amp; Logistics Recap. 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