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Order Planning and Batching (Chapter 3)

Camelot 3PL Software

The ultimate magic in efficient operations happens during Order Planning and is the next principle: All work is done in batches. 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. See the link below to download the full ebook.

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What Conversations Does Your VSM Drive?

The Lean Thinker

What lead time capability would let you routinely handle these issues so they weren’t even issues anymore, just normal operations? If you set a goal of radically improving your performance on any single aspect of your operation, you will end up improving pretty much everything in the process of reaching that goal.

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IFOY FINALIST FOCUS: robobrain.NEUROS

Logistics Business Magazine

Continuing our product-by-product examination of each of the IFOY Award nominated finalists ahead of the winners announcement at BMW World on 30th June, we look at robobrain.NEUROS, the AI-based robotics operating system from robominds. On the industrialised operating system, every function of the robotic components becomes a skill.

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How To Survive The Decline in Warehousing Capacity

Blue Grace Logistics

With the current warehousing capacity crunch, technology-driven strategies along with flexibility and end-to-end visibility are the preferred solutions for transporters and warehouse operators. An additional cost angle is involved with the pick and pack operations that are required for e-commerce multi-product order fulfilments.

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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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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.