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Case Study: Tooling Up with Storage and Picking System

Logistics Business Magazine

Toolstream is sole distributor of more than 6,000 branded hand tools, power tools, hardware & fixings, to retailers, wholesalers and merchants throughout Europe. The post Case Study: Tooling Up with Storage and Picking System appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

As I wrote two years ago in my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2015 : Historically, Supply Chain Design was an exercise companies undertook at most once a year, or when a significant change occurred in their supply chain, such as an acquisition. competitive threats, new regulations, more stringent customer expectations).

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Answering Common Chemical Rail Transportation Services Questions

CLX Logistics

We’ll be discussing how railway logistics can help solve the needs of the chemical transportation industry by reviewing our case study where we helped improve the transportation of chemicals from the southern part of the US to the Northeast. Is Rail Shipping on the Outs?

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Supply Chain Innovation Technology: No Longer Just a “Build vs. Buy” Decision

Talking Logistics

Thanks to innovations in software architecture and user interfaces, software vendors today are providing users with easy-to-use tools to build their own extensions and functionality. Kenco is a great example.

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MIT Restructures Itself to Shape the Future of Computing & Artificial Intelligence

247 Customs Broker

The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing will constitute both a global center for computing research and education and an intellectual foundry for the powerful new AI tools. Faculty in a range of departments have a great deal to gain from new kinds of algorithmic tools – and a great deal of insight to offer their makers.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

“The dire predictions that robots are going to take our jobs are overstated,” said Susan Lund, co-author of the study for McKinsey, adding “There will be enough jobs for everyone in most sectors.” How does this compare to the IoT positions of the previous years, which have already peaked in 2015?

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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. Sheffi starts, for example, with the extreme pressures coming from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), notably Greenpeace, about which one environmentalist says “When Greenpeace reaches for its toolbox, it tends to find only one tool, and that’s a mallet.” Julie Leonard.