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Driver Shortage, Driverless Vehicles, and Other Supply Chain Curiosities

Logistics Viewpoints

For instance, a bot never needs to take a mandatory break after 10 hours on the road or pass a drug test. An impressive case study to be sure, but alas, the cost of the technology is still prohibitive for most companies. For starters, many of the rules that apply to human drivers do not apply to driver robots.

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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

If you can only say “No”, I will not be surprised, because many companies have never drilled down into the costs involved in selling specific SKU categories, individual SKUs, or providing particular services connected with those sales, to specific customers or customer categories. And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis.

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Case Study: Demand Management Efficiency for Brandt Group

Logistics Business Magazine

Brandt Group, the Franco-Algerian home appliances manufacturer, has optimised the supply of washing machines, cutting costs and excess stock by up to a third after implementing supply chain software from FuturMaster. The company. The solution. The company also switched its enterprise systems from Sage to SAP.

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IoT, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing… The Game is Changing

GlobalTranz

As Maurice Conti has said in one of his presentations , we have arrived to the augmented era, in which Artificial Intelligence in manufacturing gains a new role. After analyzing the data Michelin can offer advice on how to improve efficiency. Until now all our tools were passive: we told them what to do and they did it. Industry 4.0

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Case Study: Hubtex Sideloaders Optimize Space and Storage

Logistics Business Magazine

The pallets are transported around the warehouse by two MQ 30 electric multidirectional sideloaders supplied by Hubtex Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. The sideloaders transport goods across the new mobile racking facility with the aid an inductive guidance system. Frontloaders transported the pallets to their destinations. “We

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Predicting the next turn in the freight cycle

FreightWaves SONAR

Freight markets feel stuck in unseasonable doldrums with volumes low, capacity loose and rates in a trough after supply chain activity cooled post-COVID. In the same way, freight markets can reach balance after a very slow, gradual move, and then start steadily accelerating in a new direction. per mile by Aug.

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How Automated Guided Vehicles Transform Material Handling

Conger

This new idea has become a big part of the modern business world, revolutionizing how goods are transported within warehouses and manufacturing plants through automated guided vehicles (AGVs). They are often used in industrial applications to transport heavy materials around industrial buildings, such as a factory or warehouse environment.