Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As available space for storage and distribution is scarce and therefore expensive, the trend towards multi-storey warehouse buildings is increasing. For example, parametric interfaces are offered for the Olympus goods lift, which reduce the need for cables and communicate directly with the fleet management system.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 23, 2024

We want to improve the delivery radius without over-automating, augment brownfield distribution centres and extend their value and longevity. This frees-up staff to add a personal touch to customer order engagement, for example by writing a gift note for the package.” Customers should optimise their DC space before moving.“

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 22, 2023

KG and talks about ergonomics in logistics and the distribution centre. Here, WITRON was one of the pioneers in the industry, as we have been working intensively for more than 20 years on how to minimize the lifting and carrying of heavy loads for employees in the distribution centre. Schweiger has been with WITRON for ten years.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2022

The new block train will be operated as a company train for the Austrian full truckload specialist LKW Walter. Up to 38 units can be loaded onto one train and most of the units will be trailers. Up to 38 units can be loaded onto one train and most of the units will be trailers. Four round trips per week are planned.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Develop data driven, impactful driver training. Hear examples of how a data driven approach to safety will prevent incidents and proactively keep drivers and other road users safe. The post Webinar: Motormax and Samsara talk fleet safety appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine. Bring competitive advantage.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 22, 2024

The push to bring more women into the sector comes at an exciting time for the industry, with the introduction of automation and new technology in logistical data and distribution systems, meaning that many new roles demand greater skills and expertise – and therefore higher pay and long-term career prospects.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The project for a smarter freight train is scheduled to run for 15 months. For example, the sensors monitor the condition of the braking system during the journey and record the mileage determining the exact location at any time. The post “Smart” freight wagons undergo pilot project appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Now, That's Logistics

MAY 11, 2021

With the world in the midst of a massive COVID-19 vaccine rollout, security experts are keeping a close eye on any “bad actors” who threaten the manufacture and/or distribution of these critical formulas. The fact that hackers see the COVID-19 vaccine distribution efforts as a new target hasn’t helped the situation. “By

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For example, the Dexory View dashboard enables pick face analysis of volumes. Extended reality, or VR, is used by Neovia for training, using tech from Elm Park Labs. Supply chain design, of the number and location of distribution centres , leads to a tech-based materials handling approach. Machine help?

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The National TOMs Framework centres on five themes – jobs, growth, social, environment and innovation – and outcomes include wide-ranging activities such as giving up staff time for community training initiatives, creating jobs and improving the local environment. CLICK HERE to download the report.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

Companies have fewer experienced employees who are knowledgeable about their operations, processes, and safety procedures to lead by example. One survey found that 64% of businesses across materials handling, distribution, or fulfilment had forgone business worth more than 25% of their revenue in 2022 because of staffing issues.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 29, 2023

This will enable fleets to optimise driver engagement and coaching through the provision of targeted training that is supported with relevant video and data insight. Video and supporting data will also be used where additional coaching and engagement is required, using real-life examples to encourage safer driving habits.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 3, 2022

The stalwarts of any distribution operation, forklift trucks serve multiple purposes in today’s fast-paced warehouse and distribution centres, writes Ian Davies, Director of International Sales for Gamber-Johnson on the Panasonic Toughbook website. The challenges don’t end there. At Gamber-Johnson, we have developed a 4.5m

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

For a major corporation with the luxury of multiple warehouses or distribution centres, and facing challenges or changes to their current operational model, it may be practical, even desirable, to take facilities off-line one by one and rebuild them. appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 27, 2020

These all-rounders are mostly used as towing vehicles for logistic trains, for example to supply production in industrial plants, deliver goods to shops in airport terminals, serve meals in hospitals – or as ‘shelves on wheels’ in warehouses and distribution centres.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 15, 2022

Warehouse and distribution centres (DCs) are grappling with a significant and ongoing labour shortage. For those further down the path, integrating these technologies into operations means trained coordination between workers, automated systems and software to drive high-speed, high-volume warehouse execution.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 6, 2022

For example, in Cape Town, where minibus taxis are widely used, this took the form of a concise guide which outlined commuter rights, the responsibilities of transport associations, and included contact numbers for reporting complaints, particularly in relation to gender-based violence.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

It will be augmented with route gradient and line speed data, together with high-accuracy train performance modelling, to deliver a low-cost intelligent emissions calculation and mapping solution. The post Freightliner secures funding for emissions tool appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In the United States, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) has, for example, prohibited the import of goods manufactured in whole or in part by forced labour and originating from the autonomous region of Uyghur since June 21, 2022. For a Chinese supplier, for example, is the production plant close to a Uyghur forced labour camp?

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In addition, several retailers found that holiday sales were spread out across a longer timescale — for example, JD Sports reportedly commented that higher rates of inflation had prompted customers to buy sooner. The post Automation Key to Warehouse Demand appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 27, 2023

The affiliated companies, for example, contributed the lion’s share of EUR 30 million to the total increase in turnover of EUR 45.46 As an example, Sander mentions the development of full load transports with the integration of permanent carriers at the Düsseldorf location, which is developing rapidly.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

That is just one small example of one of the many thorough vehicle safety requirements. We’ve always been committed to operating safe vehicles and the best trained drivers. The post Logistics firm recognised for compliance appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

The Group’s Innovation Projects and Development Center (IPDC) and the Interroll Academy, which is responsible for internal and external training measures, are also based there. As part of this growth strategy, for example, new plants were recently commissioned in the Heilbronn/Heidelberg, Germany, area and in Georgia, United States.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For now, the vast majority of trains from China to Hungary cross the EU border at the Polish town of Ma?aszewicze It is the world’s largest rail dry port where goods to be reloaded from broad-gauge trains to standard-gauge ones. The post Hungary strengthens potential as intermodal hub appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Logistics services provider GROUP7 gained its GDP certification recently, when the German testing company DEKRA certified the company’s ‘good distribution practice’ for its logistics and forwarding services as well as the e-commerce segment. GROUP7 is no newcomer to the pharmaceutical industry.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

Four big names from the transport and logistics sector have come together to supply an HGV driver training simulator for the Industrial Training Centre (ITC) in Zambia, which Transaid has partnered with since 2008 to help meet the country’s growing demand for professional driver training.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2023

Current issues in distribution involving labour shortages, strikes, and delays could all be avoided by investing in robotic warehouse automation. The post AI can Drive Supply Chain Future appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine. Robot-as-a-Service.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

For another, knowledge is lost over the years when, for example, the IT experts who still know how to work with the programming languages C and C++ retire. The advantages: they are easy to use and it does not take long to train employees. For example: in the past, a user would be satisfied with one delivery containing 50 order lines.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2023

This may arise from rusting of the ship’s structure or metal cargoes, oxidation of cargoes such as coal or the decomposition of biodegradable cargoes, for example fish meal, logs, bark, or wood pellets. The post Death in Confined Spaces: Hidden Danger appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The pharmaceutical retail, wholesale and distribution sector is ‘in play’, as they say on the markets, writes Leigh Anderson (pictured), Managing Director at Bis Henderson Recruitment. The post Opinion: pharma sector needs logistics skills appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For example, a flight from Paris CDG arriving at 04.00 Sniffer dogs are deployed on site – 5 Springer Spaniels, each with trained expertise for specific substances, such as explosives. We did see driver shortages but ensured we covered that via training and with partners.” Rob Peto is the VP of Operations, UK and Ireland.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2020

If a digital product is good and can answer a need, it will grow fast, he said, giving the example of Zoom, which had 10 million users in 2019, but can boast over 300 million at the time of going to press. Now that autonomous systems can be trained to replicate human movements, they can carry them out, essentially without the downside.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Distribution and fulfilment operations are under increasing pressure to perform – but labour availability is tighter than ever. But it is all too true, and nowhere more so than across the logistics and distribution sector. A ‘pick’ in a distribution centre may have 30 or more time-study elements. The demands of ecommerce.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 29, 2022

The NAiSE solution is essentially a manufacturer-independent control system for AGVs/AMRs with the unique feature that the entire intralogistics mixed operation is included in both traffic control and order distribution. At the manufacturer Omron, for example, this is the high degree of autonomy of the robots.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The workplaces in the distribution centres became more attractive thanks to the OPM system. For example, we had to quickly integrate efficient e-commerce processes for customers in the logistics centres that were originally designed purely for store delivery. Employees had to bend down, lift, and carry heavy loads.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A growing number of European warehouse and distribution centre operators see driverless forklift truck technology as the optimum solution to the staff recruitment and employment cost challenges they are facing, writes Jason Zhang, VisionNav Robotics ’ Head of Sales – Europe.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Production backlogs, for example, can be easily called up in the dashboard,” Koellner says. Implementation and training took a few days. The post Wenko Focuses on IT Transformation appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine. . “Monitoring has improved greatly.

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