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  • ProLogis has pre-leased 186,000 square feet of a new 437,000-squarefoot building in Tianjin, China, to Jinji Total Logistics, a third-party logistics service provider that serves Samsung in Asia. The facility, which is scheduled for completion early next year, will be used to distribute Samsung products within China. Samsung has a manufacturing facility just over a mile from the building.
  • WOW Logistics has built a new 126,000-square-foot distribution center in Chippewa Falls, Wis. The new facility, which will serve WOW's client Premium Waters, is located across the street from two other WOW DCs. The three buildings combined provide WOW with nearly a million square feet of distribution space in Chippewa Falls.
  • AMB Property Corp. has completed the first building in its AMB Morgan Business Park near the Port of Savannah, Ga. The new 347,000- square-foot facility is also the first spec building in the southeastern United States that meets the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Standard for environmentally responsible design.
  • Freight forwarder Target Logistic Services has opened a facility near the airport in Salt Lake City, Utah. The new building will allow Target to offer its full range of domestic and international supply chain services to customers moving freight through Salt Lake City. The terminal is equipped to handle high-tech components, aerospace equipment, automotive parts, and retail products.

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The New York-based industrial artificial intelligence (AI) provider Augury has raised $75 million for its process optimization tools for manufacturers, in a deal that values the company at more than $1 billion, the firm said today.

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The Indian warehouse robotics provider Anscer has landed new funding and is expanding into the U.S. with a new regional headquarters in Austin, Texas.

Bangalore-based Anscer had recently announced new financial backing from early-stage focused venture capital firm InfoEdge Ventures.

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Report: 65% of consumers made holiday returns this year

Report: 65% of consumers made holiday returns this year

Supply chains continue to deal with a growing volume of returns following the holiday peak season, and 2024 was no exception. Recent survey data from product information management technology company Akeneo showed that 65% of shoppers made holiday returns this year, with most reporting that their experience played a large role in their reason for doing so.

The survey—which included information from more than 1,000 U.S. consumers gathered in January—provides insight into the main reasons consumers return products, generational differences in return and online shopping behaviors, and the steadily growing influence that sustainability has on consumers.

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Automation delivers results for high-end designer

When you get the chance to automate your distribution center, take it.

That's exactly what leaders at interior design house Thibaut Design did when they relocated operations from two New Jersey distribution centers (DCs) into a single facility in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2019. Moving to an "empty shell of a building," as Thibaut's Michael Fechter describes it, was the perfect time to switch from a manual picking system to an automated one—in this case, one that would be driven by voice-directed technology.

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In search of the right WMS

IT projects can be daunting, especially when the project involves upgrading a warehouse management system (WMS) to support an expansive network of warehousing and logistics facilities. Global third-party logistics service provider (3PL) CJ Logistics experienced this first-hand recently, embarking on a WMS selection process that would both upgrade performance and enhance security for its U.S. business network.

The company was operating on three different platforms across more than 35 warehouse facilities and wanted to pare that down to help standardize operations, optimize costs, and make it easier to scale the business, according to CIO Sean Moore.

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