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Analysis: Today’s Global Economy vs. Global Container Shipping

MTS Logistics

For example: The global GDP growth rate for 2021 was 6.02%, a 9.1% While the industry faces immediate challenges, it also presents an opportunity for innovation and adaptation to ensure a more resilient and sustainable future for container shipping in a post-pandemic world. increase from 2020.

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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

Have you conducted a cost-to-serve (CTS) analysis for your enterprise? And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis. If you were going to say, “What is a cost-to-serve analysis?” Only a complete cost-to-serve analysis will expose these underlying issues unless they happen to be discovered incidentally.

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TGW Presents the Future Fulfilment Centre

Logistics Business Magazine

For example, in the future, staff scheduling need not be handled by employees, but rather can be carried out by intelligent software tools via data processing. The system learns through information analysis and uses real-time data for optimisations. Initially, relevant data are gathered and used for a digital representation.

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6 Types of Automation [Benefits, Pros/Cons, Examples]

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Examples of automation range from a household thermostat to a large industrial control system, self-driven vehicles, and warehousing robots. Examples are industrial robots and multipurpose CNC machines. For example, full warehouse automation to support event-driven, mission-critical system delivery.

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Analysis: Should You Redirect Your Cargo and If So, Where?

MTS Logistics

Although we had seen many bad examples of the piling up strategy, due to lack of direction, these two ports are also now congested. So no matter how farfetched it may seem, the solution might be that farfetched option that you are presented with. The post Analysis: Should You Redirect Your Cargo and If So, Where?

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Predictive Analysis in Logistics and Supply Chain: How to Apply

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Predictive Analysis in Logistics and Supply Chain: How to Apply | Image source: Pexels In logistics, predictive analysis is simply the process of identifying and forecasting patterns, trends, and behaviors in both human and machine learning approaches, data, and algorithms. This ratio increased to 54% in 2022.

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TGW presents new digital services at LogiMAT

Logistics Business Magazine

The systems integrator will be presenting the full spectrum of its digital services at the LogiMAT intralogistics trade fair (31 May to 2 June) in Stuttgart. An integration project’s lifecycle takes place digitally, from the first data analysis all the way to final acceptance.