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Walmart Canada applied blockchain to solve a common logistics nightmare: payment disputes with its 70 third-party freight carriers. To solve the problem it built a blockchain network. The system has not only virtually eliminated the payments problem; it also has led to significant operational efficiencies. This article offers five lessons on how to create a blockchain network for improving business processes.

How your bottle of beer found its way into the fridge when you sat down last weekend to watch a football or basketball game on TV is hardly of consequence when you’re looking to relax. What you know is that you picked up a six-pack at your local market, but the circuitous route it traveled and the IT used to activate the supply chain before you popped off the top will enlighten you.

FOX Business' Grady Trimble discusses automation in the workplace with Quiet Logistics President and COO Brian Lemerise as robots help fill labor shortage void.

Over the past two years, Meituan, one of China’s largest internet companies, has flown 19,000 meals to 8,000 customers across Shenzhen, a city with close to 20 million people. The pilot program is available to just seven neighborhoods, each with a three-kilometer stretch, and only from a select number of merchants.

The plan promotes the diversification of supply chains, which has emerged as a top priority for economic security amid the Sino-American rivalry.

“Truck unloading is one of the hardest jobs in a warehouse, and that's one of the reasons we're starting there with Stretch,” says Kevin Blankespoor, senior vice president of warehouse robotics at Boston Dynamics.

From fast food to farming, Covid-19 has accelerated the rise of the worker robots. This in turn will put more jobs at risk and makes the need to reframe society ever more urgent

Find what you needed this year? It might be because you got someone else’s return. More retailers are working to quickly get like-new returned items back into their systems for sale. They are hoping to fill shelves and websites, as supply-chain snarls limit the availability of some new inventory, and reduce the cost of handling returns overall, a bigger expense in recent years as e-commerce sales climb.

Both Sam’s Club and Walgreens say the automation frees up time for employees to help customers instead of spending hours on mundane tasks like mopping floors, manning cashiers or counting pills.