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Sustainability and due diligence laws force action

Logistics Business Magazine

In road transportation, there is a strong trend towards e-vehicles and hydrogen-powered trucks. More and more, transportation and product packaging come under scrutiny. This applies to specialists in transportation and customs as well as to highly qualified experts in supply chain management. New legislation is driving the pace.

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Strapping Machine Maker Unveils CeMAT Package

Logistics Business Magazine

Flexibility is required in modern intralogistics: Companies must quickly adapt their processes to various product and batch sizes. Online trade requires shipping products ranging from delicate clothing to washing machines. “Companies that turn to us pack and ship a wide variety of products every day.

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Mobilisation in the Information Technology Era

Logistics in War

This is the exciting world of three-D printing where production batch sizes can be small or on-demand without impacting production efficiency. Maintenance spares resupply might become a connectivity issue, not a transportation one.

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Six Must Have Supply Chain Capabilities for Success in the Food and Beverage Industry

247 Customs Broker

Unfortunately, focusing too much on manufacturing efficiency can lead to large batch sizes that are often misaligned with actual customer demand. F&B manufacturing plants tend to be very capital intensive and often the top goal is to maximize the output for these expensive resources.

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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. Batch Size and JIT. Manufacturers have also shifted to running smaller batches with adjusted schedules to meet the ever-changing demand.

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[INFOGRAPHIC & VIDEO] A 2D Explainer of Rapid Prototyping & Additive Manufacturing in 3D Printing

GlobalTranz

It provides a high degree of design freedom, the optimization and integration of functional features, the manufacture of small batch sizes at reasonable unit costs and a high degree of product customization even in serial production. Functional Principle.