Ship Monk

MAY 25, 2023

What do we mean by distributed inventory? Well, if you’re familiar with Amazon’s practice of adding warehouses all over the country, then you’re familiar with the concept of distributed inventory. What is Distributed Inventory? There are several benefits to distributing some or all of your inventory across multiple warehouses.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Increased demand on your distribution centers from improved e-commerce sales, changing seasons, or other shopping patterns can limit your throughput. Small improvements can have significant impacts on your distribution center. Furthermore, use data from your existing WMS to compare the opportunities and risks from making such changes.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

The ability to tap into data is critical to business success – from predicting sales trends to improving operations and customer service, writes Stephan Sieber (pictured), CEO at Transporeon. This gives companies the insights they need to outperform the competition, and today’s business leaders clearly recognise the value of data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2024

Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries manufacture and distribute a wide range of consumer products, including bath tissue, paper towels, napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, and building products. It analyzes new and historical order data, customer preferences, and transactions. What is Causal AI?

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Growing businesses will sooner or later need more capacity in their supply chain to fulfil larger sales volumes. Using WMS to increase factors such as occupancy, throughput, and data and task accuracy can all help to increase the capacity of an existing warehouse.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 4, 2023

Tender data allows logistics leaders (think CPG, automotive, and food and beverage companies) to gauge raw market demand. Changes in inbound tender volumes indicate increased or decreased capacity in any given market. At its core, tender data points to market dynamics.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Transport Exchange Group (TEG), a leading UK online freight exchange platform, is helping its members to operate more dynamically and competitively in a highly volatile marketplace with the launch of what it describes as an ‘industry-first’ load pricing data service.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2018

Spurred by the record-breaking growth of e-commerce and rising labor costs, robots can have a very positive impact in distribution centers when implemented correctly. To meet rising demand, supply chain executives must begin considering new ways to increase the capacity of their existing facilities. Bring disparate systems together.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 29, 2021

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. What’s covered in this article: Capacity and labor shortages. Tips to overcome warehousing capacity shortages. Download Our Whitepaper.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Mobile data can play a pivotal role in building the supply value chain. Mobile devices have functions that provide valuable data for the supply value chain. But even more importantly, this freight data enables shippers to optimize their company’s operations in various ways by avoiding overspend and more.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

1) Streamlined Data Flow and Process Automation Is all about AI At the heart of effective supply chain automation lies the seamless flow of data across various sources and digital platforms, akin to a well-constructed highway for data. 2) AI-Infused Data Quality Assurance Ok, we built the proverbial highway.

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Conger

JANUARY 7, 2022

This article is all about forklift weight capacity. The difference between a forklift’s rated capacity and its actual capacity. OSHA’s rules on forklift capacity. How to calculate your forklift's actual capacity. Forklift Capacity Plate: What It Is and How to Read It. Load capacity. And much more!

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 29, 2020

She has led programs ranging from acquisitions to technology deployment with a strong focus on lean manufacturing and data management. The Supply Chain Disruptions Include: Manufacturing capacity drops and become less efficient. Trucking capacity falls and costs increase. Final mile capacity demand increases.

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Transporeon

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Shippers are feeling the effects of scarce carrier capacity. The driver shortage is affecting available trucking capacity. With luck, the shipper may find and contract with another carrier that has available space despite the driver shortage and scarce capacity. Scarce available trucking capacity leads to higher shipping costs.

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Freightos

APRIL 2, 2024

Schedules were quickly disrupted and capacity shifted to China – Europe and North America lanes to accommodate the longer voyages. These changes made ocean capacity (and empty containers) scarce, sending container rates out of India spiking. Freightos Terminal data showed that from mid-December to March S.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

is the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Supply Chain pioneer that enables companies to optimize their Operations by leveraging their existing Data Systems to increase Output, Quality and Profitability across their entire enterprise. The demand planning process typically involves: Collecting, organizing and preparing data. ThroughPut Inc.

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Penske Move Ahead

JUNE 18, 2021

A continued increase in demand coupled with carrier constraints and a driver shortage has strained capacity, and carriers are getting more selective with the freight they will haul. Capacity is there, but it takes collaboration and planning, and shippers need to focus on being a shipper of choice," Coulter said.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 21, 2022

With a real-time connected network of drivers, OneRail finds the right vehicle for suitable delivery, so shippers gain low prices and greater capacity to rapidly scale their businesses. OneRail is an Orlando-based last mile transportation visibility solution providing shippers with Amazon-level dependability and speed.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 13, 2015

Many of the following distribution center metrics to track closely mirror those found within transportation and manufacturing, but this listing will focus on those involved in distribution centers. What Distribution Center Metrics Need Tracking? Monitor Warehouse Capacity. Identify Peaks in Warehouse Capacity.

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Quality Scales Unlimited

MARCH 9, 2021

Accuracy, reliability and efficiency of data are key factors that affect both safety and performance in warehousing and distribution operations. These scales are available in various sizes and capacities, but are usually designed to fit into small areas and maximize workspace.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Today, warehouse managers face an endless battle with a growing number of products and limited storage capacity, and among distribution center managers, the challenge of warehouse slotting is even more difficult. The revenue of a given distribution center is directly related to its carrying costs.

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WorkWave

AUGUST 4, 2020

In the grand scheme of things, data analysis falls into the categories of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. While descriptive data presents existing figures, predictive data allows you to draw insights from trends in your descriptive data in order to make an educated guess about what might happen next.

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Stord

JULY 16, 2019

Warehouse Capacity Increased in Q2 2019 The supply of available industrial and logistics space increased for the first time in eight years, according to a July 15 report by CBRE. Increased investment in new real estate helped alleviate the space constraints seen in recent years and caused by the growing e-commerce industry.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 26, 2016

Everyone seems to be clamoring to get on the big data and analytics train. Part of this drive toward more interest in analytics in distribution and manufacturing comes from the ability of analytics to reduce inefficiencies dramatically and increase productivity in both physical and virtual sales environments.

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

More freight brokers are turning to technology and transportation data to grow their businesses by understanding the true freight market rate. . It’s not solely about knowing basic rates – it’s about using freight data to make the best decisions for all loads – playing both the buy-side and sell-side aspects of freight brokering.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Retailers also took steps to contain costs and preserve margins as they reoriented toward e-commerce like never before, including putting solutions in place to more effectively navigate carrier capacity caps and improve the visibility, accessibility, and mobility of inventory.

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CLX Logistics

APRIL 22, 2024

Whether achieving real-time compliance tracking, navigating market uncertainties through advanced analytics, or reinforcing safety protocols via secure data exchange, the digital revolution within the chemical supply chain emerges as the critical factor in surmounting these difficulties. Data informs transportation capacity and rates.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 31, 2019

How to achieve a competitive advantage through Distribution Networks. After the lesson on distribution networks, I researched to complete the training a bit more and I found how to obtain efficiency on the distribution. Previous steps in the design of distribution networks.

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CLX Logistics

MARCH 9, 2021

Big data and predictive transportation analytics are transforming the supply chain industry in incredible ways. As the global transportation and logistics market continues to grow, new complexities such as health-related closures, capacity issues, global regulatory changes, and other factors drive shippers to seek better solutions.

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MTS Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Elastic logistics is becoming a shining example of efficiency and cost savings due to its capacity to dynamically react to changing demand by expanding or reducing operations. Real-Time Data Elastic logistics is largely dependent on real-time data analytics, which offer precise, current supply chain information.

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FreightWaves SONAR

AUGUST 14, 2023

Supply chain optimization is often presented as a choice between resilience and responsiveness — between being able to withstand and operate normally under conditions of disruption and stress and being able to quickly flex capacity and throughput up or down opportunistically.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MAY 17, 2018

Truck Capacity Crunch . The first explanation for the rise in transportation costs is the truck capacity crunch. The first explanation for the rise in transportation costs is the truck capacity crunch. See “ Rising Costs and Lower Capacity in the Domestic Truckload Market.” What To Do: It’s All about Data Analytics .

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2021

Visibility solutions allow real-time asset tracking across the entire distribution network. Today, it’s all about the data. Companies are partnering with data aggregators to get a better idea of when shipments will arrive. Blockchain monitors have access to the temperature data and whether that changes between modes.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 4, 2018

From the last half of 2017 through today and beyond, a slew of market forces, some predictable and some unexpected, have combined to create a very real truck capacity shortage in the United States. The past, present and future market forces causing today’s extreme truck capacity shortage include: Strong Economy. Holiday Season.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you’ve ever paid $10 for an Uber ride to the cocktail lounge in the evening and then a “surge priced” $50 for the same distance Uber ride back to your home only a few hours later around closing time, you understand the dynamics troubling shippers in today’s capacity constrained transportation market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2024

The Canadian subsidiary of Walmart is introducing material handling robotics and automation technologies into its distribution network, kicking things off by piloting an automated receiving solution at its regional distribution center (RDC) in Calgary, Alberta. Walmart Canada is piloting an automated receiving solution.

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Transporeon

APRIL 9, 2019

The driver shortage is affecting available trucking capacity. With luck, the shipper may find and contract with another carrier that has available space despite the driver shortage and scarce capacity. What can be done to deliver on time to customers despite the driver shortage and bottlenecks in trucking capacity?

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