Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

There has been an undoubted change in consumer behaviour, including the acceleration of ecommerce uptake. Airfreight availability is reduced due to lower belly capacity with fewer passenger jets flying. Hope is not a strategy. The post Supply Chain risks to retail profitability appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

The RightPick 4 system showcases enhanced AI-based software algorithms, an upgraded sensor suite, and newly designed hardware that enables a larger picking range of item SKUs, advanced item handling capacity, and increased system autonomy. The post Autonomous Robotic Piece-Picking System appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2022

With capacity constraints, ecommerce growth and driver shortages creating dilemmas for many as well as the increased focus from the industry on environment and machine learning, it was a year that was definitely not without its tests. The increase in volume will increase the challenge on an already tight last mile delivery capacity.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2022

Posts’ current retail network strategies are focused on parcel lockers (62%), parcel shops/PUDO (43%), and self-service terminals (34%). “To sustain ecommerce growth, Posts must commit to investing in last mile delivery innovation. CLICK HERE to download Escher’s Future of Posts 2022 report.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2022

What’s driving warehousing strategies? Along with the rapid growth of ecommerce, there is a strong desire to develop faster fulfilment strategies and importantly, equally efficient returns processes. The post Four key factors shaping the future of warehouse automation appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 31, 2022

Relentless eCommerce trends continue to put tremendous strain on distribution and fulfilment operations worldwide. ” The report also explores how the ongoing pandemic, global trade issues and regional conflicts have created long-term disruptions to the historically predictable throughput and capacity of warehouses and DCs.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

To support this, the racking system has a capacity of around 65,000 locations for customer goods. The post AMR Commissioning at Dutch Logistics Centre appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine. Order-shelf-transport AMRs handle the transport of orders on a shelf with several levels, which are delivered to the packing stations.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Caja Robotics was created based on experience in the eCommerce retail and logistics market, facing the daily challenges of the order fulfilment process. Its robotic fulfilment solution for unit picking increases order picking efficiency and the storage capacity of warehouses, while improving the work environment of warehouse employees.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 18, 2019

Chorley-headquartered order fulfilment and eCommerce logistics specialist, fulfilmentcrowd, has announced the opening of its latest service centre in Cwmbran, Wales, in partnership with leading seasonal decorations supplier, Festive Productions Ltd – further strengthening the capacity of its national network.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Even though we had to keep the systems running at full capacity and beyond.”. Storage capacities must be able to be built up and decreased even faster in the future. Adding to this is the continuing boom in ecommerce, which even in the COVID pandemic has not suffered any slumps; on the contrary, it recorded new growth figures.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

It allows more capacity for innovation and risk-taking; however, growth without profitability is not sustainable in the long-run and few companies grow their way out of unprofitable operating models. Capital for investing was cheap and the ability to borrow money was easily available.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

On the one hand, ecommerce continued to grow at record levels without the slowdown that many were predicting, leading many organisations to recognise the importance of reaching beyond traditional strategies to enhance their logistics and transportation capabilities. Collaborative Transportation Management. The Global Trade Scramble.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

Fulfilment services and technology specialist Exact Abacus has rebranded as ‘fulfilmentcrowd’, completing a strategic transition that has seen the rapidly expanding company refocus on its core strengths and growing customer demand in the ecommerce sector. ft and 2,500 parcels dispatched per day from fulfilmentcrowd’s own centres in Chorley.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 22, 2020

Our customers are employing the following strategies: split shifts; using the system to limit the number of employees in a given zone/aisle; re-routing pick paths based upon safety rather than productivity; and diligent sanitising of warehouse equipment.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Order fulfilment and ecommerce logistics specialist, fulfilmentcrowd, has announced the opening of its sixth service centre with Sheffield-based Drop Dead Clothing, further strengthening its growing national fulfilment network.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Businesses widespread are gathering resources and getting their strategies ready as two of the biggest dates in the diary loom ahead. A real crucial characteristic to expect from this year’s notorious Black Friday and Cyber Monday is the heightened emphasis on the ecommerce sector.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 16, 2018

Fulfilment technology and services specialist, Exact Abacus, has implemented the next stage of its growth strategy with an £8,000 investment in mechanical handling equipment for its highly digitised warehouse operation in Lancashire.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 27, 2024

Leading Finnish logistics services provider Inex Partners Oy has partnered with SEE to enhance packaging automation, as part of its strategy to further improve efficiencies, customer satisfaction and capacity for managing sales peaks. Inex handles fulfilment and distribution of E-Commerce orders for one of Finland’s largest retailers.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

At the beginning of the project, it was evident that we needed to increase our pick capacity substantially”, Glomlien jokes today. This implementation strategy has also worked excellently.” The post More Throughput for Coop DC During Upgrade appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine. This is also very impressive for us.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This is the capacity to improve how products are physically moved in the warehouse with robots or cobots. Zebra’s warehouse vision study states that typically 50% of ecommerce warehouse employees are picking orders and that 40-70% of their time is spent moving between picking locations. Physical automation.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2018

Johannes Panzer (pictured), Head of Product Strategy for Ecommerce, Descartes Systems, says it might be and that businesses need to be fully agile… On July 16th the hotly anticipated Amazon Prime Day kicked off, running for a total of 36 hours it was the longest Prime Day sale to date. Gearing up for Prime Day.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The 80-year-old US businessman transferred industrial logistics strategies to humanitarian organisations in the 1990s. Before Steve Raymond, the founder’s grandson, retired, he was actively involved with The Raymond Corporation in various capacities, including past president of the Raymond Solutions and Support Center.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2023

Robotics, AI and digitalisation could hold the key to boosting capacity. Far from its traditional role as a repository for inventory, the warehouse has become a powerhouse for fulfilment, whether it be replenishing retail stores, feeding just-in-time manufacturing lines or serving a discerning customer base directly through ecommerce.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 22, 2019

As explained by Logistics Brief , the capacity crunch and extreme growth of e-commerce will contribute to unparalleled growth in the Less-than-Truckload (LTL) sector. Related Article: Developing a Less-than-Truckload & Ecommerce Focused Shipping Strategy. Compliance to U.S.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s well recognised that the country is ‘under-warehoused’, especially given the rapid and permanent rise in eCommerce with its demands for increasingly sophisticated distribution facilities. Their business model, perhaps a shift to B2C eCommerce rather than bulk sales to wholesalers or retailers, may have made space redundant.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

UniCarriers has delivered a state-of-the-art e-commerce storage concept comprising a long-term equipment strategy and an efficient material handling operation in a new very narrow aisle (VNA) warehouse for logistics provider Delamode. A high storage capacity due to double-deep storage is always at the expense of selectivity.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

For businesses currently struggling to meet customer demands for home delivery due to the lack of capacity created by the driver deficit and a rapidly escalating cost base, a greener future can look a long way off. How can retailers pick the right delivery strategy? Embedded Behaviour. Are drones failing to deliver in a certain area?

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Every £1 billion extra spent through e-commerce generates need for 750,000 sq ft of extra space, and ecommerce is just one competing need for warehousing. Their current requirements are strictly tactical – they need to be able to move out again as strategies become firmer. appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2022

Firstly, it is almost never advisable to scale permanent warehousing and associated capacity for a single seasonal peak (although there are firms that have successive peaks, perhaps in different lines, for which this may not be true). appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine. The post Could Autumn peak be riskier than usual?

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2022

A big part of what companies need to do when building a future strategy is to look out into the future and say, “These are the things that we think we want to do and be five years from now”. the Food Price Index rose 20% since 2020-21; source: BCG research), capacity constraints in logistics resulting in significant price increases (i.e.,

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 12, 2018

The pressure is on, never before has an optimum TMS strategy been so important. That’s the customer perspective, the question is: Has your transportation strategy kept up with consumer expectations? Overcoming the capacity pinch. And to top it off we have customers pushing us all for ‘here’ and ‘now’. Customer Expectations.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

UK ecommerce has always maintained a great dependence on the European market. That includes paying close attention to each and every customer touchpoint, ensuring they have the infrastructure to cope with increased orders, and the capacity to adequately deal with any increase in customer queries. Preserving consumer trust and loyalty.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So three months after an executive meeting on June 23rd , an updated strategy was released, tracking a radical shift into a slimmer Maersk, focused on providing end-to-end logistics services. The Post-2016 Strategy: End-to-end Shipping. million TEUs of capacity it must fill. million TEUs of ship capacity.

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