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“ WE ’ RE AS MUCH ABOUT WORKING WITH GREAT STRATEGIC PARTNERS , AND ALSO DEVELOPING OUR OWN TECHNOLOGY ”
— Richard Cawston , Managing Director , XPO Supply Chain , Europe
all technologies . We ’ re as much about working with great strategic partners , and also developing our own technology and the application of that technology ,” adds Cawston .
“ Customer trends are changing fast and for me that is the challenge . We need to keep this pace of change – whether it is how we integrate robotics and equipment of people , or how we service goods globally , B2C as well as through traditional supply chains .
We will need to enable the greater development of products such as 3D printing , how they can be delivered through supply chains in a virtual way , and how companies like XPO can facilitate this .”
“ For XPO , it ’ s the technology across all of those parts that we invest in , so that visibility of the supply chain or predicting what the customer will want but hasn ’ t yet dealt with it through manufacturing , shipping , transportation ,
AUGUST 2019