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AI’s Transformative Role in Warehousing

Logistics Business Magazine

That in turn can assist with the next topic, that of efficient order picking, which of course has its own pathing and routeing issues. Pick path optimisation is a hot topic in warehousing, although at the low end this amounts to little more than putting orders into a sequence and chopping them up into blocks of work.

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Warehouse Safety: OSHA Guidelines, Statistics & 10 Top Tips

Conger

We’ll talk more about specific risks later in the article, but briefly, warehouse workers commonly face hazards associated with: Forklifts and other material handling equipment. Thus, focusing on warehouse safety helps reduce and prevent these risks as well as the accompanying fallout that goes with them. High heat or excessive cold.

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How Much Does a Forklift Weigh? [15 Forklift Weight Examples]

Conger

How to Tell How Much Your Forklift Weighs There are 2 ways to tell how much your forklift weighs: Check the manufacturer’s data tag (also known as the data plate or nameplate) Calculate/estimate the forklift weight Let’s talk a bit more about each method. Check the Data Plate A forklift comes with a manufacturer’s data tag or a "nameplate."

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7 Supply Chain and Logistics Trends to Watch in 2018

Logistics Bureau

OK… so this is almost a prediction, but it’s a topic on which I feel qualified to speculate, and I do so with good reason. One of the key risks involved in such an approach is that certain sales will undoubtedly be unprofitable, and that’s an untenable situation for supply companies to remain in.

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Collaborative Platform for Enterprise of Future - Infosys Blogs

Infosys Supply Chain Management

My initial thoughts are something like a dedicated dashboard to track communications; enabling a social platform to receive and update a discussion topic within and outside an organizational boundary; #tag an Asset for bringing forth a recurring failure or other reliability concerns and getting inputs etc. Generic SCM (130).

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Data from barcodes, RFID tags, GPS systems, and the Internet of Things (IoT) mean that managers not only have to be good analysts, but they also have to be good at understanding the supply chain system instinctually. Prokop: Volatility brings risk, and risk can be managed to a certain degree. What can be measured can be managed.

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State of Global Logistics: Delivering above and beyond

247 Customs Broker

The collection provides analysis of the key trends affecting the overall industry, and is split into five surveys investigating the freight forwarding, motor carrier, express and warehousing sectors as well as the increasingly important topic of “environment and ethics” in global logistics.