FedEx Corporation announced a strategic alliance and investment with Nimble, an AI robotics and autonomous e-commerce fulfillment technology company, to scale FedEx Fulfillment with its fully autonomous 3PL model.
FedEx aims to offer a comprehensive approach to help e-commerce and omnichannel brands make faster, smarter decisions about their supply chain. With more than 130 warehouse and fulfillment operations in North America and 475 million returns processed annually, FedEx Supply Chain is helping brands consolidate functions, increase agility and accelerate click-to-door speed to maximize value throughout their supply chain.
“Our strategic alliance and financial investment with Nimble expands our footprint in the e-commerce space, helping to further scale our FedEx Fulfillment offering across North America,” said Scott Temple, president, FedEx Supply Chain. “Nimble’s cutting-edge AI robotics and autonomous fulfillment systems will help FedEx streamline operations and unlock new opportunities for our customers.”
“We’re thrilled to be engaging in this multifaceted alliance with a logistics industry leader like FedEx to pioneer and scale autonomous fulfillment,” said Simon Kalouche, founder and CEO of Nimble. “This collaboration will help enable FedEx to leverage Nimble’s fast and cost-effective fulfillment centers, powered by our next-generation intelligent general purpose warehouse robots and AI technology.”
With the mission to make supply chains smarter for everyone, FedEx says it is continuing to optimize its physical and digital networks to deliver more for its customers and their consumers.
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