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IFOY FINALIST FOCUS: robobrain.NEUROS

Logistics Business Magazine

The Munich-based robotics company robominds, founded in 2016, has reached the IFOY AWARD final with its neural robot operating system “robobrain.NEUROS” Different skills can be uploaded to the software platform, for example a palletising application for intralogistics. One skill, for example, is order picking.

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Cycle Inventory in Supply Chain Management

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

The term Cycle Inventory is used to define the average inventory in a supply chain due to either production or purchases in lot sizes that are larger than those demanded by the customer. A typical example of lot size is shown with this graph: Q (lot size) is the quantity order at a time t.

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Sustainability and due diligence laws force action

Logistics Business Magazine

Analyses of automotive manufacturers, for example, may show that re- or nearshoring of certain products or components makes sense. Managers must have a handle on “batch size 1” production and delivery, master the returns business, and have a last-mile solution in place. To do this, they need powerful SCM software.

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What Conversations Does Your VSM Drive?

The Lean Thinker

In this working example, asking the shop floor workforce to fix this problem would be futile. The shop floor can’t, for example, transition from a push scheduling system to pull on their own. When a shop is behind, the management reflexes are (1) increasing batch sizes and (2) expediting.

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Order Planning and Batching (Chapter 3)

Camelot 3PL Software

As an example, one such rule may be that orders marked with a status of “priority” and are received by the warehouse before 12 PM must ship same-day. Batching rules from one client to the next may never be the same, and so defining those rules is a part of the discovery and implementation of the client.

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New design for SSI Cuby shuttle system

Logistics Business Magazine

Batch sizes of individual products, a particularly wide product range, short order processing times and omnichannel distribution – these are the challenges many companies in industry and trade must face. A conveying system, for example, connects the storage with goods-to-person work stations.

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How To Survive The Decline in Warehousing Capacity

Blue Grace Logistics

For example, warehouses can take advantage of the Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS) to recover up to 85% of existing floor space when compared to standard shelving. Batch Size and JIT. Manufacturers have also shifted to running smaller batches with adjusted schedules to meet the ever-changing demand.