Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2023

The new vehicles do of course also have limitations in terms of their range. We’ll probably need to have some top-up charging capacity, but it’s difficult to say how much right now. The project is a collaboration between the Gothenburg Port Authority, the Volvo Group, Scania and Stena Line.

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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.” Meanwhile decisions like how much production capacity needs to be added, or what raw materials need to be purchased, don’t change on a daily basis.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

In this article, written by Markus Kammerhofer, Director Sales Retro, TGW Logistics Group , we look at the most important factors for a successful retrofit intralogistics project. For another, knowledge is lost over the years when, for example, the IT experts who still know how to work with the programming languages C and C++ retire.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

Jörg Spiekermann, sales manager for palletising and packaging systems in the Consumer Goods area of Beumer Group , knows how to solve individual tasks with standard components. With stretch hooding, Beumer Group offers an efficient possibility, even for difficult cases. ” The highly elastic stretch hood. No wetness in, but out.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 8, 2017

In today’s post, I’ll share some concrete examples of machine learning applications used today in the context of S&OP. The first example is to use machine learning for improving the results of your promotions and improving sales. Take the Coca Cola company, for example. Machine learning to boost your sales.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When you can barely see beyond the bow of the ship, when extreme wind and waves threaten to throw you off course – or worse, sink you – it’s understandable that long-term thinking can get chucked overboard like so much extra ballast. I can only imagine what it must be like to be at sea during a major storm.

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Now, That's Logistics

DECEMBER 21, 2018

“Freight volumes are continuing to trend upwards at a solid rate by historical standards, helped by strong consumer confidence and robust global investment growth,” the group points out. Nonetheless, amid signs that manufacturing firms’ export order books are no longer growing, other demand drivers have softened over the course of the year.”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

Modular AMR-based sortation systems are also scalable, so additional robots can be introduced as and when they are needed to cope with any spikes in throughput and, what’s more, if an individual robot malfunctions, it is simply and quickly removed from the ‘shop floor’ and replaced with no discernible drop in throughput capacity.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Step forward, Iain Gillard and Big Box Group. Let’s think of an imaginary example. Let’s say a client wants 10,000 pallets as a capacity. We can put a raft of ideas to them: ‘if you go down the VNA route, this will be your capacity, if you prefer reach trucks then this is your capacity’, and so on.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 29, 2021

Of course, during that same period, many retailers performed extremely well. Greater efforts to mitigate volatility in freight costs, such as using more dedicated capacity or making larger use of private fleets. Monitor container volumes at origin into the future to gain insight into demand-driven pressures on capacity (and rates).

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the last year, the UK’s cold storage industry capacity has topped 40 million cubic meters, for the football fans amongst you that is the equivalent to the bowl volume of 35 Wembley Stadiums. The best way to save lives of course, is to ensure automatic fire detection is in place, across your entire cold storage facility.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

With a precisely tailored racking system for production supply in the automotive sector, AR Racking has created the basis for optimal intralogistic processes in the new logistics center of the Seifert Logistics Group. The core business of the company is the automotive motive sector. The new building has changed everything for us.

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Material Handling and Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

Of course, some design issues are strategic and take longer to implement, but many offer quick efficiency improvements. For example, a company might limit its exposure to trade uncertainties by extending the time period for renewing employees’ laptops or cell phones, which are largely manufactured overseas, from two years to three years.

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Now, That's Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2019

Of course, keeping up with those order volumes on the manufacturing side isn’t easy. Neither is dealing with transportation challenges like the driver shortage and capacity crunches. As the truck market continues to tighten in terms of capacity and equipment availability, those issues won’t go away anytime soon.”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

After record figures in 2021, conventional breakbulk (+1.1%) held up well in the first half of the year due to growth in the throughput of steel, the main commodity group within this segment. First, of course, 2022 was the year of the merger and therefore a historic year. Total roll-on/roll-off traffic saw an increase of 6.5%.

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Locus

MARCH 27, 2024

Take XYZ Retail for example, juggling 100 diverse orders ranging from on-demand to next-day deliveries. By leveraging data on real-time traffic, driver schedules, delivery priorities, and vehicle capacities, retail businesses can carve out the most efficient paths for their fleets.

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Conger

JULY 20, 2020

Of course not. Forklift capacity, stability, steering, maneuvering, and visibility . With lots of options and aggressive marketing for online certification courses, you've probably had this question cross your mind. Now that we have that out of the way, let's talk about what you can expect from online courses.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 3, 2021

Supply chains are continually disrupted by container shortages, a lack of air freight capacity, and movement restrictions implemented by governments to combat the pandemic. Target’s strategy is just one of many examples of retailers exploiting their brick-and-mortar assets to support ecommerce. The Dark Store Trend.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 29, 2018

According to CTM, the equipment offers a solution for more efficient transport in a country now facing a capacity shortage in road-based vehicle distribution. We plan to set a strong example for the rest of the world that our technology will improve efficiencies and cut out unnecessary waste in the largest auto market in the world.”.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In place of long paper trails and maintenance schedules, machines with the capacity to communicate their needs and issues via the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) are becoming an essential component of effective processes. Of course, these possibilities are not without potential problems.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 16, 2018

As more consumers continue to buy groceries online, it has the potential to drive up the demand for roughly 35 million square-feet of United States-based cold storage space moving from retail stores to warehouses and distribution centers over the course of the next seven years. According to CBRE estimates, the U.S.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 2, 2021

So in January, as players across the global freight industry were discussing how to navigate higher freight rates, delays, and capacity shortages , Freightos.com, a global freight booking platform and part of the Freightos Group, reached out to our customers to find out how logistics disruptions are impacting them.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 21, 2019

A port like Gdansk is, for the moment, not used to maximum capacity. For example, BLG Group and STS Logistic have announced plans to jointly operate and develop Auto Terminal Slask in Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland. . Of course, this had a negative influence on carriers’ overall performance and planning.

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Logistics in War

AUGUST 28, 2021

It is in the light of these facts that the commander expects to shape his course during the supervision of the planned action.’ [1]. The first part of this paper applies examples to articulate concepts and ideas relevant to understanding the reality of war. From Sound Military Decision , United States Naval College, 1942.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

MARCH 10, 2020

Supply Chain = the whole granddaddy process comprising of all aspects in a product cycle, for example from picking of the fruit at a farm in Point A to delivering the fruit to the shelf at a store in Point B using all of the above-mentioned industries, businesses and services. By Deadweight Capacity. By number of vessels.

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Blue Grace Logistics

AUGUST 21, 2018

A good example of this was when NGO ForestEthics released a report that slammed retailers and logistics providers alike for using companies who fueled fleet trucks with diesel that was created with bitumen sands from Alberta which causes a considerable strain on the environment. . This creates a rift between corporate and consumer.

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Freightos

MARCH 17, 2019

There’s one group of people who know the answer better than anyone – the logistics providers and BCOs who literally spend their lives on tenders. For example, logistics providers reported that unless they paid extra during capacity crunches, 25% of their shipments failed to make the first available sailing.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 15, 2018

In 2017, it saw a recovery in the automotive sector in Europe and a shortage of transport capacity in the market. And we are setting the course on innovation in a rapidly changing world; we need to innovate more – and organise with innovation in mind.” ” – Luc Nadal, Gefco. Partners, unlimited.

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Blue Grace Logistics

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The information should immediately go to the transportation group so they can start to coordinate the capacity to move that freight. Of course, the cost is a factor in this regard. Pricing is the perpetual thorn in the side, of course, and it’s easy for one side or the other to take advantage when the conditions are right.

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Logistics Manager

APRIL 27, 2018

MSC is also partial to this people first approach because they are still a family run business, and yet with over 490 vessels operating in 200 trade lanes worldwide, MSC is the world’s second largest container line in terms of capacity. The company is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with regional and local office in over 155 countries.

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Logistics in War

APRIL 6, 2019

natural disaster, accident, commercial failure, act of terror or war), Australia’s capacity to provide fuel for its 5th generation Air Force is immediately jeopardised. Examples of advanced fuel sources include biodiesel, hydrogen cell, electric-hybrid, ethanol, natural gas and propane. [2]

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The Logistics Academy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

in real terms since this time last year, but owing to a continuation of excess capacity issues and lower average oil prices, rates continue to fall in both air and sea freight. For example, airfreight forwarding growth in China is thought to have been robust this past year, while sea freight growth was much weaker. Toll Group.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 21, 2018

Of course, we must accept that even our most general officers and public servants will have some areas of expertise. But we must not forgo the capacity for systemic thinking to machines or make information management so specialist a function it is no longer possible to provide advice based on judgement and set by the context.

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The Lean Thinker

JANUARY 25, 2024

Getting a continuous improvement culture into place means changing the day-to-day patterns of interaction between people and groups of people. Or maybe you need to increase your capacity while holding your costs (vs. In this working example, asking the shop floor workforce to fix this problem would be futile.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The latter – the logistician – by their capacity to integrate a variety of specialised functions into the desired operational outcome. Insufficiency of resources is an obvious factor and the priority of effort in Defence significant influences our capacity to deliver outcomes for the benefit of Defence capability.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 1, 2018

For more complex tasks, such as digging deep into a stack of crates to find a slow-moving SKU, a number of the robots can work together to quickly locate and retrieve the item, much as ants, for example, will work together to drag a dead insect to the nest. DHL Challenges Robotics Visionaries. End-of-year Update: Autonomous Goods Vehicles.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the course of updating our annual research on the supply chain planning market , I talked to executives across the industry. Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure.

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