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The Overlooked Advantage in Trucking with Blake Grolmus

The Logistics of Logistics

About Ruan Transportation Ruan provides Dedicated Contract Transportation , Managed Transportation , Value-Added Warehousing , and Brokerage Support Services to customers across the U.S. The company ensures team members have the safest equipment, ongoing training, and guidance from Ruan’s proprietary Megasafe7 Rules of Safe Driving.

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Forklift Safety Training: The Ultimate Guide

Conger

This is the ultimate guide to forklift safety training. By the end of this article, you’ll learn: Why forklift operator safety training is important. OSHA’s training requirements. Where to get forklift operator training. How to develop your own in-house forklift training program. Let’s dive in. Table of Contents.

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Kiva systems – a revolution in warehousing

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

In the last lecture about warehousing, our Logistics Professor mentioned the company “Kiva Systems”. I was wondering why amazon would spend that much money for a warehousing system which by the way was amazon´s second largest acquisition at that time. The following video shows how amazon uses the system. What are the advantages?

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Amazon Warehousing

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Kiva platform: watch out this video on how it work : The employees are aided by more than 800 Kiva robots in the 8th-generation fulfillment center — a result of Amazon’s $775 million acquisition in 2012 — that do everything from sort packages to lift heavy 3,000-pound pallets 24 feet into the air.

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Free Supply Chain & Logistics Webinars – 4 Topics – 2 Time Zones

Logistics Bureau

We have weekly videos, a very extensive blog, stuffs on social media, and we are now sharing FREE SUPPLY CHAIN WEBINARS! Warehousing: John Monck. Recent schedule: middle of February through until the end of March 2020. Topics covered: Inventory Management: Kieran Hogan. Route Scheduling/ Route Planning: James Bannister.

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Order picking with smart glasses

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Studying the warehousing slides for the exam, I realised that some of the equipment used in warehousing is long-standing. In addition to be a faster, more accurate and efficient system than traditional methods, the usability of the smart glasses is simple and intuitive so onboarding and training times can be reduced.

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STILL welcomes 64 new apprentices and students

Logistics Business Magazine

The new recruits are starting their training and study periods in six apprenticeships and three dual study programmes. “The training of qualified new talent has seldom been as important as it is at the moment,” emphasises Jan Wehlen, training manager at STILL. Innovators of tomorrow. Post-pandemic challenges.