{"id":12935,"date":"2019-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/news-insights\/articles\/robots-in-supply-chain-logistics-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga\/"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T19:51:03","slug":"robots-in-supply-chain-logistics-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/us\/news-insights\/articles\/robots-in-supply-chain-logistics-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots in supply chain and logistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over the last several months, we&#8217;ve provided some information on robots in the supply chain and logistics industry. Recently, we compiled all of it and decided to present it here for ease of use for a broad view of what we have on our site.<\/p>\n<p><strong>White Paper:<\/strong> Here is a white paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/us\/news-insights\/whitepapers\/robots-sandy-springs-atlanta-ga\/\">Getting Robots to Pay for Themselves by Steve Mulaik.<\/a> It&#8217;s available for download as a PDF.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Operations Summit: <\/strong>At the 2019 Operations Summit we attended a lot of sessions, and one of our partners ran a roundtable. <a href=\"https:\/\/crimsonandco.info\/authors\/cris-maddox\/the-ecommerce-operations-summit-2019-summary-sessions\/\">Here, is our update from the Ops Summi<\/a>t, which includes some talk of robots.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019 NRF Conference Update:<\/strong> Jeff Culvert, from Crimson &amp; Co NA gave us an update on <a href=\"https:\/\/crimsonandco.info\/blog\/nrf-big-show-observations%ef%bb%bf\/\">robots as well as cloud capacity and omnichannel. Read about it, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are links to some articles from our Supply Chain &amp; Logistic updates. <\/strong>From one of our Recaps: This story by Amazon is causing some buzz because an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/291243-amazons-new-robot-can-pack-more-than-600-boxes-per-hour\">\u00a0ExtremeTech article states that robots at Amazon<\/a>\u00a0can pack more than 600 packages per hour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crimsonandco.info\/blog\/supply-chain-logistics-recap-84\/\">In January Steve had an update of a Robotics company tour. <\/a>Here is a recent one: <a href=\"https:\/\/crimsonandco.info\/authors\/supply-chain-logistics-recap-93\/\">\u00a0July 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/walmart-extends-streak-of-sales-growth-11558006277?mod=djemlogistics_h\">WSJ article on the same topic<\/a>, and a video of a news segment on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2019\/05\/16\/walmarts-same-store-sales-growth-really-impressive-says-former-ceo.html\">CNBC. They cover it as well as the impact of tariffs<\/a>. He talks about same-day and next-day shipping competitiveness (as well as \u201crising weights\u201d) as well as price increases on things coming from China. He said, wages are, and employment is strong.<\/p>\n<p>Articles on Robots from a Recap in October 2018:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crimsonandco.info\/supply-chain-and-logistics-recaps\/supply-chain-logistics-recap-75\/\">https:\/\/crimsonandco.info\/supply-chain-and-logistics-recaps\/supply-chain-logistics-recap-75\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Pictured is Crimson &amp; Co North America&#8217;s Steve Mulaik a visit to a robotics company this year.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12936,"template":"","categories":[146],"class_list":["post-12935","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>Robots in supply chain and logistics - 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\/robots-in-supply-chain-logistics-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=\"Robots in supply chain and logistics - Argon &amp; Co\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; 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. &nbsp; Over the last several months, we&#8217;ve provided some information on robots in the supply chain and logistics industry. 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