Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

LiBiao Robot recently announced that two models from the ‘Mini Yellow’ range are now available in Europe – a 5kg tilt-tray robot and a 30kg cross-belt model. The post Mini Yellow’ sortation robots help ZTO meet the demands of ‘singles day’ appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine. Both types have CE certification.

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The Lean Thinker

APRIL 20, 2020

The traditional way to calculate takt time is to divide the total time available by the output required in that time. The whole goal of an ideal “Just-in-Time” system is that we have only the capacity required to meet the demand. This is true in Steve’s example of an Emergency Department. Think of it this way.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Rather than implementing bid events annually “because that is how we always did it in the past,” savvy shippers are scheduling bid events that meet their cyclical and business needs. For example, carriers can learn how they compare against others bidding for specific lanes and make informed decisions.

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UL EHS- Sustainability

APRIL 2, 2020

This feature gives admins much greater flexibility in determining appropriate learning opportunities for individuals, including required training and optional courses that learners can access in catalogs. Or if they complete a certain course, another course appears to that learner as optional training.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Therefore, the role of pharmaceutical wholesalers is also significant – they need to ensure not only high product availability, but also the fastest possible delivery. Example contents include headache pills, nasal sprays, and adhesive bandages. But speed is also crucial.

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Now, That's Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When sales forecasts are accurate, companies know they’ll have enough product supply to meet customer demand for those goods. And even if there’s an imbalance, good forecasts allow organizations to course-correct before a real problem emerges. Covering the Demand. Planning is obviously key,” says Chrapko.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2022

Attended by some 150 visitors, the three open days gave guests the opportunity to see some of the recent additions to the Flexi Truck range of articulated warehouse trucks and hear how the latest generation of Flexi Truck models are helping today’s logistics operations meet their sustainability goals.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 7, 2023

In this article, we’ll look at some of those challenges and explore potential solutions to help you and your IM team meet the burgeoning demand for fast and accurate order fulfilment. So what can you do to ensure your inventory management meets the challenge of multichannel sales?

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Whereas online courses and programmes were previously managed as a separate entity, they are now an integral part of most academic systems. The study showed that upwards of 30 percent of American students enrolled in at least one online course in 2018. Online courses are the quickest path for a student to obtain a degree.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

But with supply chains’ sole purpose being to meet demand, it becomes challenging to make assumptions and then learn anything back about those assumptions. Of course, a lack of support from universities means that there are no locally produced supply chain professionals. So that’s one big tough one.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 31, 2024

For example, our advanced 3PL platform looks after every aspect of your supply chain in an efficient, effective way and our Virtual Carrier Network safeguards your shipping by always applying the best rates and speeds while not handcuffing you to any carrier. Of course we’re talking about your ecommerce store’s data security.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 22, 2023

Those who can’t meet basic ergonomic requirements no longer have a chance to present themselves on the market as an attractive employer”, Johannes Schweiger says. How do we manage to make the amount of available information user-friendly and useable in a reasonable way in order to avoid information overload? Those days are over. “We

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This is 27% above the Q1-Q3 2020 total and puts the UK industrial & logistics sector on course for a record year, as the unprecedented levels of occupier demand looks set to ensure that the industry will beat the 51.6m Food manufacturing and indoor farming are examples of other occupiers taking space recently. million sq ft.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 30, 2022

For example: Alignment of strategy and cost leads to happy shareholders. What they do care about is the unit price they pay for finished goods, and the availability of those goods. From an inventory perspective then, service means maintaining an appropriate level of stock to meet your promises to your customers.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Successful procurement leaders are operating smarter by leveraging analytics and technology such as integrated suites to generate clean data (at least if they have a unified data mode) and master data management solutions for addressing issues in back end systems, cleaning and normalizing suppliers’ records, for example. Boost Your Employees.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 5, 2024

Of course, it wouldn’t be a business strategy if there weren’t a couple more acronyms to learn. For example, evaluate processes including invoicing, payment, tech integrations, communications, timely approvals, and customer service responses. Regular meetings or reports? Would better tech integrations help?

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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

So to meet capacity, airlines started to convert passenger planes into cargo planes at scale. And, of course, when anyone buys goods in a store, part of that cost is freight. It impacts how your next phone ships, toilet paper availability, and the cost of food. A third of all cargo is carried in passenger planes.

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Globalior

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

This kind of research is done to understand and formulate scientific theories instead of attempting to meet specific targets or objectives such as product designing or testing. When doing applied research, the scientist or engineer is attempting to create a specific end product with given properties, for example like heat resistant rubber.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Of course, there is no quick and easy way to curb increases in the cost of energy and labour, but now is an excellent time to start thinking about practical ways to reduce energy usage and increase labour productivity and efficiency. For example, you could reduce human labour by deploying robotic equipment or other forms of direct automation.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 16, 2015

Like their parents, many children don’t know about the opportunities available in manufacturing. They often shy away from STEM education courses and technical education. And, we need to reach them before they get to high-school so they can make informed decisions about all of the opportunities available to them in the future.

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UL EHS- Sustainability

OCTOBER 31, 2019

But the most successful learning and development teams also understand how to measure the success of each training course and react accordingly. What type of training is available? ? Example: Testing an employee’s skills before and after the training to identify performance improvement. Are workers motivated to do the job? ?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

For example, for a yogurt company, decision of where to ship a short lifecycle product coming out of a factory is done daily because “demand can shift in very short time frames.” But, of course, over the course of a month the demand and supply pictures change. Gottemukkala continued, “is that the models are all connected.”

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Logistics Business magazine’s editor Paul Hamblin meets Rishi Lodhia, MD EMEA for Eagle Eye Networks. The availability and integration of computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming what was previously just an ‘observation’ tool into something that can deliver real business operational advantages. “In

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Only if a number of locations all meet the needs of proximity to customers will the comparative cost of land and buildings become important. So I will use Sydney as an example. If a number of locations all meet these needs, then of course the comparative cost of land and buildings becomes important.

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Ship Monk

MAY 5, 2022

Today, we’re going where the rubber meets the road: the actual migration. The length of downtime will be determined by SKU count, complexities such as labeling and packing to meet your new 3PL’s guidelines, and the speed of their receiving process. For example, you might ship 50% of each SKU quantity, or a specific group of products.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Let’s take ShipMonk, for example, one of the fastest-growing 3PL fulfillment providers in the US. The best shipping carrier and method is chosen automatically, based on the origin and destination, carrier availability, reliability and rate. You do have other options, of course. The bottom line?

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

In this post, I’d like to talk about the key factors that will impact on the optimum facility network and design required to meet your warehousing or storage requirements. What levels of inventory availability do you require? For example, we need to know if we can get to the required level of packaging unit.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2023

For example, pickleball has been the fastest growing sport in America for 3 years. Without an efficient supply chain, a company can’t meet the demand that exists, and competitors swoop in and grab market share. An example of a branding concept involves the work the company did with Kerri Lee Walsh Jennings.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

As an example, a major retailer whose market presence is in the Americas realized that several of their shipments that originate in China pass through Russia to make their way to the west and are now subject to shipment backlogs. Some may have believed themselves to be immune at one point, but now their perspective is shifting.

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Supply chain intelligence and actionable insights must apply the most accessible, near real-time data available. Of course, there’s another advantage. As reported by Forbes , “Many companies, for example, have moved to e-commerce[…]This means shipping via B2C channels versus B2B channels. Email and fax don’t cut it.

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Morai Logistics

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Logistics Solution Providers (LSPs) have now turned to technology to push through the crunch, and develop solutions to find capacity that meet consumer demands. Over the course of the last year, Uber has also recognized an area of expansion, advancement and profit. Make the matching between shipper and carrier more efficient.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For example, a member of the sales team could apply to become a purchasing agent, based on her experience of negotiating sales deals. Let me encourage you to join this exciting and challenging industry by running through the types of jobs that are available, and the qualifications you may need for an entry-level position. Networking.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 8, 2022

In particular, the space constraints generated by the need to hold more SKUs and the shorter pick times and quicker throughput rates needed to meet the delivery expectations of internet shoppers meant that storage solutions had to be rethought to make the most of the people and (in the majority of cases) limited space available.

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Conger

JANUARY 17, 2023

5S Warehouse Examples 5S Warehouse Training: How to Get Your Team Ready How to 5S a Warehouse Warehouse 5S Checklist Warehouse 5S FAQs Warehouse 5S Quiz What Is 5S? For example, it avoids clutter, needless stock build-ups, tools and products on the way, wasted time looking for parts, and the creation of safety hazards. Let's dive in!

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Talking Logistics

JULY 26, 2017

For example, you probably heard about how a machine learning algorithm allowed the machine to beat the best humans in Go or in Poker in the past year. What are concrete examples of machine learning intervention in S&OP? Take IBM’s Watson for example. Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are at their peak.

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Bringg

MARCH 24, 2021

To meet the new demand, companies will have to adjust their operations for greater efficiency, flexibility, and cost reduction. A good example of such a strategic decision could be choosing a warehouse’s location. For example, delayed shipping times or customer unavailability during delivery can disrupt the supply chain.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The answer depends, of course, on your company’s objectives and, particularly, on your customer service promises. It’s a random approach in which, for example, a consignment of electric blenders might find a home in a storage location between bottles of shampoo on one side, and dog collars on the other.

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