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Industry View: DCs Rise to Meet Unprecedented Challenges

Logistics Business Magazine

Pressing needs and panic buying have created the equivalent to peak season demand in many industries. Many customers we’ve spoken to also tell us that they’ve had to add to their workforce, which requires onboarding and training. With a normal peak, large groups of employees are coordinated and trained all at one time.

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What Is Cross-Docking?

FW Logsitcs

Supply chains that utilize this process are able to meet customer demands faster by avoiding extra inventory handling steps. Goods come into the dock and are immediately sorted, consolidated, and loaded onto outbound trucks heading to retail stores, distribution centers, or customer locations. truck to rail) without storage in between.

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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. Autoliv is the world’s largest safety system supplier in automotive industry. Autoliv is the largest supplier of safety systems to the automotive industry. Can you update me on this?

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Quantum-Powered Solution Tackles Logistics Optimization

Logistics Business Magazine

Populated with industry-specific insights, the solution leverages a combination of quantum computing, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive business outcomes. Those who attend will have the opportunity to see a demonstration of the solution and hear from industry leaders.

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New WMS solution growing up fast

Logistics Business Magazine

The Stratford-upon-Avon based company, which was established in 2007 and recently won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, is additionally enjoying consistent control of inventory and outbound processes, which help deliver a first-class customer experience. Their agile approach means giving clients select parts of the system (e.g.

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Hazmat Products Shipping Tutorial for Ecommerce Businesses

Ship Monk

But you do need to make sure that everyone has the proper training and certification to handle hazmat products. Everyone from the manufacturer to your warehousing and fulfillment teams, freight and shipping companies, truck drivers and mail carriers, all need to be trained and certified to handle hazardous contents.

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Choosing Your Freight Shipping Method: Air, Land, or Sea

Ship Monk

No matter what you’re selling in your online store, you have to ship your merchandise in bulk to a fulfillment center (what we call inbound freight shipping), and you also have to deliver orders to your end customers (what we call outbound small-parcel shipping). The goods are packaged in bulk, in boxes or stacked and wrapped on pallets.

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