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• Kilcoy Global Foods deployed the Nexterus transportation management system to help manage freight and improve freight spend reporting. Kilcoy provides high-quality food products to independent restaurants and national chains. • Ice company Arctic Glacier has improved distribution network efficiency, fleet performance, and the customer experience by using Descartes’ strategic route planning solution to optimize ice distribution from 100+ facilities and 1,000 vehicles to 75,000 customer locations across the United States and Canada. • flaconi, a German beauty and perfume e-retailer, selected GreyOrange’s GreyMatter fulfillment orchestration platform in combination with a fleet of 70 GreyOrange Ranger Assist robots to attain peak season flexibility in the warehouse. • As part of a new multi-year agreement with RightHand Robotics, Staples will deploy and install the company’s RightPick item- handling system to automate operations for higher service levels and next-day delivery to 98% of the United States.
n Estes partnered with Watershed, an enterprise sustainability platform, to assess and set benchmarks against its sustainability program. The initial phase will be to complete Estes’ first carbon footprint, which it will use as a baseline to analyze its emissions data and identify emissions hot spots. n Wen-Parker Logistics has entered a partnership with 4ocean to help remove up to 20,000 pounds of plastic and trash from the oceans, rivers, and coastlines.
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J.B. Hunt Transport Services appointed Shelley Simpson as chief executive officer and president, and nominated her for election to the company’s board of directors. Simpson has served as the company’s president since August 2022.
Robert Kossick will join A.N. Deringer’s Trade Advisory Group as a senior trade advisor. Kossick is a licensed customs broker, an attorney whose practice experience has centered on customs and trade issues, and a member of the Washington District Export Council.
12 Inbound Logistics • March 2024
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