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• Workwear brand Carhartt selected RELEX Solutions to centralize inventory and supply planning. With
Jason Smith was appointed the new leader of GlobalRX’s Life Science Logistics business. Smith joins from Kuehne + Nagel, where he served as vice president of U.S. healthcare contract logistics.
the AI-driven RELEX platform, Carhartt will
Spirits company Bacardi Limited promoted Nicole Zukowski to chief supply chain of cer. Her promotion follows her role as senior vice president of North America Supply Chain. Guillermo Donayre succeeds Zukowski as the new senior vice president of North America Supply Chain.
streamline global production planning, reduce excess inventory, and boost service levels to better meet customer expectations. • Urban Out tters appointed Bleckmann as its new third-party logistics partner, supporting warehousing, ful llment, and return services across Europe. • Golf Superstore is using Descartes Sellercloud integrated with its Lightspeed point- of-sale system to drive order and inventory management ef ciencies by unifying operations across its brick-and-mortar stores and multiple ecommerce channels. • Activewear retailer Fabletics is rolling out GreyOrange’s gStore retail SaaS application at more than 100 stores across North America to gain pinpoint-accurate intelligence about the location and status of every unit of inventory in its retail locations. • High-value shipment tracking company Tive partnered with AstraZeneca FluMist Home to deploy smartphone-scannable temperature trackers in each shipment of medication. • Arvato expanded its ecommerce distribution center in Stryków, Poland, and installed an automated shuttle storage system with a capacity of up to 270,000 cartons to handle H&M’s logistics operations in Central-Eastern Europe.
GEODIS created a new department dedicated to arti cial intelligence and appointed David-Olivier Tarac (pictured) as executive vice president, arti cial intelligence and Carole Besnard as group chief nancial of cer.
Christine Barnhart joins Miebach in the newly created role of head of industry engagement and alliances for the U.S. and Canada. Known across the industry as the Supply Chain Whisperer, Barnhart brings 25 years of end-to-end supply chain expertise.
DHL Supply Chain named Andries Retief chief development of cer, responsible for next-generation supply chain solutions.
> INVESTMENTS
n Gophr App, an AI-powered logistics platform, was selected to join the Techstars Tulsa Accelerator, a program that provides funding, mentorship, and access to a global network of investors and industry leaders, giving GophrApp the resources to scale its delivery technology nationwide. n Gallatin AI, a defense technology company serving military logistics through AI, was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I contract by the Air Force Materiel Command's Digital Transformation Oce. n Augment raised $85 million in Series A funding, bringing its total capital raised to $110 million in five months. The Series A round was led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from 8VC, Shopify Ventures, Autotech Ventures, and other leading logistics and AI investors.
12 Inbound Logistics • October 2025
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