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Chronopost International ensures on-time deliveries during peak activity …
Chronopost can ensure on-time deliveries during peak activity with ease of delivery rating for all addresses based on parcel tracking and geographical data provided by Dataiku DSS. The custom solution implemented analyses historical internal delivery and retrieval data using a machine learning interface. The company has increased business intelligence productivity and optimised package delivery operational costs .
Instacart predicts availability of 200 million grocery items …
Instacart has built a model that reports the in-store availability of over 200 million grocery items, updated every 30 minutes. The third-party's personal shoppers execute consumers' orders by packing the requested items at retail partners like Aldi, Costco, Krogers, Safeway, and Wegmans. When looking for an item the shopper categorises it as found or not found, which in turn creates …
Otto reduces the rate of product returns by …
Otto, the German e-commerce giant, saved millions of Euros by accurately predicting customer demand and using it to plan inventory. They were looking to reduce losses caused by product returns and found that customers prefer to receive all the items in one shipping, within two days. The only way they could do this was by predicting which items would be …
Walmart is enhancing its in-store customer experience with …
Walmart’s warehouse club, Sam’s Club will launch a new store powered by emerging technology, in Dallas. Sam's club now will be a store where cashiers are replaced by its already existing app so that customers can scan products as they shop and check out through the app. Other features of the store include a camera system for inventory management, electronic …
The Port of Rotterdam is collaborating with IBM …
The Port of Rotterdam has a planned project with IBM to implement IoT sensors and capture a wide variety of shipping and environmental data to better predict the impact of logistics changes for efficiency and safety gains. Ultimately this will result in cost savings for shipping companies.
eBay introduces an app for sellers to identify …
eBay adds a new augmented reality feature in its app to help sellers identify matching shipping box for products. It also calculates shipping costs. The app will super impose different shipping boxes on any object the camera points to and eBay uses images and dimensions to help solve a problem for sellers.