10 Jul Original forum minimum of 250 wordsrespond to both students separ

Original forum minimum of 250 wordsrespond to both students separately with a minimum of 100please follow directions or I will dispute!!!ATTACHMENTS ARE BELOW!!!Original ForumThis week you will identify and discuss 2-3 emerging concepts within the transportation and logistics field. You will have to conduct online research to determine what emerging concepts have surfaced over the past 1-2 years. Discuss in detail to include a definition or explanation of the emerging concept, the importance it plays in the TLM field (currently), a forecast of where you see this heading in the future, and its potential future impact within the TLM field.Provide sources to support your thoughts, insights, ideas, and statements. Complete this Forum by giving an update on your project. What topics or essential elements will you include in your project?  Why?Student ResponseJamesGood Evening Class, I hope you are all doing well today.This week we examine a few emerging concepts in the field of Transportation and Logistics Management. These concepts have been developed over the past several years, but have continued to adapt and improve. Going green is not necessarily a new term or idea. In the past few years there have been some real benefits derived from this. In the past much of the ‘green movement’ was merely political. Now companies such as Walmart are noticing real benefits of the sustainability movement. I’m sure by now you have all heard about Walmart’s sustainable pizza boxes. They take corrugated cardboard and recycle it in there facility to make the boxes(Natsu 2009). This is one way that they are going green. In many areas sustainability can help to drive costs down while helping to reduce carbon emissions.Another technology that has been increasingly known is the use of RFID. RFID technology is being used in a diverse set of industries. It’s use for inventory accuracy may be one of its most valuable assets to our field. Lowe Rental, a global company, states that the use of RFID has lead to nearly %100 accuracy on inventories(Swedberg 2018). Any item in the company’s possession can be tagged and pinged to locate and verify with in minutes. This adds to the over efficiency and use of time for any organization where inventories have traditionally been quite time consuming. After this week’s lesson. I will consider looking in to how RFID technology and green practices can be used in the Fleet Maintenance setting. Have a great week! James Natsu,Paul.(2009, November 30).Wal-Mart Turns Corrugated Waste into Pizza Boxes – Environmental Leader. (n.d.). Retrieved October 10, 2018, from https://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/wal-mart-turns-corrugated-waste-into-pizza-boxes/Swedberg, Claire(2018, October 10).Global Rental Company Achieves Near-100 Percent Inventory Accuracy  Page 1 – RFID Journal. (n.d.). Retrieved October 10, 2018, from https://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?17897Stephen Class,In this week’s forum we were to learn about the emerging concepts within the transportation and logistics field, I would have to go with the implantation of robotics. Robotics have seemed to just move in without anyone really knowing what was going on, we looked up and noticed that the distributions centers where not hiring as many people but the businesses were still growing but the robotics system had taken the place of workers. Amazon warehouse in southern New Jersey late last year, stacking plastic bins the size of small ottomans. It was not, she says, the most stimulating activity. And lifting the bins, which often weigh 25 pounds each, was also tiring over 10-hour shifts. Now Ms. Scott, 21, watches her replacement — a giant, bright yellow mechanical arm — do the stacking. Her new job at Amazon is to babysit several robots at a time, troubleshooting them when necessary and making sure they have bins to load (Wingfield, 2017). Companies are using robots to replace the human in a lot of jobs some of them even have the ability to replace more than one person, but as sad as it is the robots are making companies more efficient when it comes to fulling the customers’ orders which in turn improves the bottom line for the company. Robotics has become the new employee in a lot of distribution centers and we will have more interaction with robotics in the work place in the near future.   In my project I will go in detail on the use of the RFID tags and how they impact the transportation and logistics field, showing how giving the customer and real time update on their shipment can improve customer service, I feel this is very critical to my paper. SimonReferencesWingfield, N. (2017, September 10). As Amazon Pushes Forward With Robots, Workers Find New Roles. Retrieved from The New York Times : https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/technology/amazon-robots-workers.html