Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 2, 2023

Robert Branigan, vice president of international distribution and logistics at Wonder , says that automation is the driving force to improving supply chain efficiency. With advancements in technology benefitting consumers and businesses alike, increased automation will be one of the key supply chain trends in the coming years.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

With labour hard to find and performance at peak under scrutiny, businesses may be tempted to opt for a complete, turnkey warehouse automation project to solve all their problems in one move. There can be little doubt that automation is the future for all but the smallest of warehouse operations.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Keith Fisher, president of Honeywell Warehouse Automation, explores how warehouses can manage. In addition, several retailers found that holiday sales were spread out across a longer timescale — for example, JD Sports reportedly commented that higher rates of inflation had prompted customers to buy sooner.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Today, the OPM system is the world’s most successful fully automated logistics and order picking system for cases. The workplaces in the distribution centres became more attractive thanks to the OPM system. The number of items changes, the volume varies, the order lines adapt, and more distribution channels are added. “We

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 15, 2022

Warehouse and distribution centres (DCs) are grappling with a significant and ongoing labour shortage. Increasingly aggressive adoption of proven automation technologies. For many operations, order picking or putting are the entry point to digitalisation and automation.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

With the continuous development of the express delivery industry, the demands and requirements of various platforms for automated logistics and transportation is also increasing. The automation of the manufacturing industry is increasing, coupled with the rising cost of labour and the declining demographic dividend.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

With the pandemic causing a swing away from the high street towards online, businesses looking to keep their operations viable during these challenging trading conditions are investing increasingly in an automated warehouse. Let’s look at some key differences between a manual and automated facility. WMS – An Overview.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2020

Global intralogistics innovator Dematic has announced a flagship new contract with Reitan Distribution A/S in Horsens, Denmark. Reitan Distribution A/S supplies groceries to more than 900 stores throughout Denmark, including more than 340 of the chain’s own REMA 1000 stores and convenience stores including 7-Eleven.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2022

SNAP , one of Europe’s leading smart payment solutions provider for lorry drivers and fleet operators, has revealed the potentially game-changing automated technologies that could help to overcome the challenges of a diminished workforce. SNAP predicts that advances in automation will make it much easier to multitask at truck parks.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 23, 2021

Suddenly, overnight the how and where of manufacturing and distribution changed. Conversations about infrastructure, reshoring, last-mile delivery, regionalisation, automation, staffing, and ecommerce were happening across every industry. COVID-19 Exposes Challenges in Manufacturing, Warehousing, and Distribution.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This software solution empowers warehouses to achieve seamless and efficient control over all automation devices and robots within their distribution centres (DCs). By analysing data from this breakthrough installation, SnapControl was able to optimise the allocation of tasks between human and automated resources.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Warehouse automation acceleration. As a result, many favor physical automation to maintain efficient fulfillment operations and productivity. Robotics and intelligent automation are gaining traction and will be accelerating in the next few years. What is warehouse automation and its benefits for customers?

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 22, 2023

KG and talks about ergonomics in logistics and the distribution centre. Intralogistics has been very successful for years in automating manual activities and thus sustainably improving ergonomics within the internal and external supply chain. How, for example, must future user interfaces or tools be designed?

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 20, 2024

Supermarkets face a pressing need to automate their DCs. With floor areas measured in hectares, carrying tens of thousands of SKUs to supply the daily needs of 67 million people, the distribution centres of our major food retailers are surely the textbook case for extensive and profitable automation. What is going wrong?

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 14, 2018

Affected by changes in production, procurement and distribution methods, warehousing has continually been pushed and pulled in different directions. Logistics services provider TNT runs a large distribution hub in Belgium. Automation has also become significantly more popular. Where to Do Your Warehousing.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

OPEX® Corporation, a global leader in next generation automation for almost 50 years, is expanding the capabilities of its leading-edge ‘Sure Sort® Warehouse Automation’ technology to incorporate radio frequency identification (RFID) scanning to meet client needs and increase operational speed and efficiency. About OPEX.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 9, 2021

Interroll has launched a new drop tray sorter to its range of automated sortation solutions – the Split Tray Sorter MT015S. Flender, Managing Director of Interroll Automation GmbH. The post New Split Tray Sorter Launched appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 23, 2024

We want to improve the delivery radius without over-automating, augment brownfield distribution centres and extend their value and longevity. This frees-up staff to add a personal touch to customer order engagement, for example by writing a gift note for the package.” Customers should optimise their DC space before moving.“

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Contract logistics provider GXO Logistics says it has achieved “an industry first” by deploying 6 River Systems (6RS) collaborative robots (cobots) on multiple mezzanine floors in one of its distribution centres in Milton Keynes, England. The post GXO installs multi-tiered cobots appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

The company says it recognises the challenges and uncertainties that customers and partners face and does what it can to mitigate them, for example by simplifying the organisational structure and communications. Gregor Baumeister is the Director of Warehousing and Distribution.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 22, 2024

The push to bring more women into the sector comes at an exciting time for the industry, with the introduction of automation and new technology in logistical data and distribution systems, meaning that many new roles demand greater skills and expertise – and therefore higher pay and long-term career prospects.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 17, 2023

Consequently, it is a matter of transforming facilities that were previously used manually into automated logistics centres. Brownfield references worldwide WITRON experts are very familiar with the requirement to economically map brownfield solutions with automated storage and picking technology.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

Companies have fewer experienced employees who are knowledgeable about their operations, processes, and safety procedures to lead by example. One survey found that 64% of businesses across materials handling, distribution, or fulfilment had forgone business worth more than 25% of their revenue in 2022 because of staffing issues.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For example, the Dexory View dashboard enables pick face analysis of volumes. Supply chain design, of the number and location of distribution centres , leads to a tech-based materials handling approach. The distribution centre is where some visibility is lost, due to damage, loss, theft or errors that occur. Machine help?

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 1, 2018

If there were one clear-cut conclusion to be drawn from our “2018 Warehouse and Distribution Center (DC) Equipment Survey,” it would be that the outlook for spending is bullish. So, after years of the survey reflecting growing investment in systems for distribution centers (DCs), what’s different this year?

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2019

This article, written by Mal Walker , Manager at Logistics Bureau, in the July-August 2019 issue of MHD Supply Chain Solutions Magazine. Triadic and non-triadic distribution centres! It could, for example, encompass grouping fast moving stock, away from the rest, to allow for freer access to receiving and dispatch zones.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The 150-year-old Finnish beverage and brewing company Olvi relies on Cimcorp’s WCS to handle all intralogistics within its distribution centre. A combination of automated tray picking and manual picking is used to pick most orders, with any products that cannot be picked automatically being added to the pallets.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Robotics and automation for warehousing and fulfilment will continue to advance Whilst robots have been implemented in warehouses for many years, the form they’ve taken continues to evolve with new types of robotics and automation being introduced every year.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 4, 2022

In addition, reduced use of terminal MHE (material handling equipment) via the semi-automation of goods handling has been achieved, waste management has been improved at offices, and charging stations have been installed for electric bikes and vehicles. The modernised terminal site has an area of 59,210 sq m.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We’ve helped customers to achieve transformations of their business fortunes simply by adding one piece of packaging automation. How investing in carton handling equipment and pallet wrapping automation could provide the step-change businesses are looking for in 2023: Labour.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ltd, a leading Japanese 3PL company, in partnership with Israeli 634AI , a Musashi Group affiliated company and the developer of MAESTRO, an industrial automation and mobility management software. The POC was performed in Suzuyo’s Shinshizuoka distribution centre in Shizuoka prefecture.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Specialising in the design, manufacture and installation of bespoke automation for the food processing industry, Samey Robotics has delivered over 150 projects across 10 countries including Iceland, Norway, the Faroe Islands and the UK. The whole process, from order to delivery, is fully automated.”. A changing market.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It will be installed at the new home of Crocs’ European distribution centre (DC) in Dordrecht, The Netherlands. As a result, Crocs had a requirement for an automated solution that offered the highest level of flexibility to support its future plans.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 19, 2023

Since establishing its European headquarters in the Netherlands in late 2021, Hai Robotics has quickly developed a reputation for revolutionising warehouse automation throughout the region, undertaking more than 30 projects across Europe and four in the UK.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Motormax is hosting a webinar with Samsara to learn how the automated use of vehicle telematics and 360° video-based safety solutions can be used to: Enhance driver and vehicle safety via 360° vision. Improving fleet safety through automated use of vehicle telematics. Develop data driven, impactful driver training.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2024

Importantly, this automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) fulfils KDL’s need for flexibility by allowing pallet throughput to be increased simply by adding more shuttles, while the modular rack can be extended to increase capacity to help futureproof the facility. Opened at the end of 2022, the DC is located in Lokeren, Belgium.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The Women in Supply Chain award honours female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments, mentorship and examples set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network. The post inVia recognised in Women in Supply Chain Award appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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