Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Businesses across all sectors are looking to AI, whether it’s to improve productivity and efficiencies within their operations or to offer a more personalised experience to customers, writes Faki Saadi (pictured), Director of Sales, UK, Ireland and France at SOTI. We have seen this in action through our work with DPD.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Tom France, the vice president of distribution at Trane Technologies, gave an entertaining presentation in early October of this year at a FourKites online conference. The company aspires to run an integrated supply chain focused on creating a seamless process from customer demand through the entire product and service lifecycle.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2021

The SVP of Supply Chain at Walmart speaking at Blue Yonder’s virtual user conference. Walmart is making investments in warehouse automation in distribution centers to deliver aisle and department-ready pallets to stores. This initiative requires capturing product dimensions and other product attributes with higher accuracy.

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Trinity Logistics

JUNE 3, 2021

Interruptions to the cold chain create problems such as spoilage, changes in the appearance, taste, or smell of a product, growth of harmful bacteria, or lost potency. When it comes to pharmaceutical products, many regulations affect the cold chain. It ensures products are safe, ingredients disclosed, and drugs are effective.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Aera is using data crawlers to crawl across billions of rows of transactional data on a monthly basis. This is combined with data from external sources on weather, logistics lead times, and sustainability performance. These crawlers never stop working. Aera Technology calls itself a “Decision Intelligence” company.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2023

We have certainly seen more focus on women in supply chain over the last few years, and nearly every conference that I attend has tracks dedicated to women in supply chain. The facilities are a fraction of the size of Amazon’s large fulfillment warehouses and are designed to prepare products for immediate delivery.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

We were also joined by over 1,500 people from around the world who attended the conference virtually. The theme for the conference was “Ready. It began with the sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution of necessities for life. At the conference, the first two Amplifiers were introduced: Demand.AI and Supply.AI.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2021

Distribution is no longer a backwater of the economy, due in large part to the upheavals brought on by ecommerce. But there is a technology gap between gleaming new automated facilities and tens of thousands of existing warehouses and distribution centers that pre-date the warehouse building boom of the past 5-10 years.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Intermodal’s group director, Rob Fisher, commented: “Nothing compares with the power of face-to-face meetings and the opportunity to engage with product demonstrations and industry experts that a ‘live’, in-person event provides. But it doesn’t compare to live, real-time asset and cargo data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 4, 2021

Just last month I noted that warehouse labor productivity was hindered extensively by COVID-19 and that 80 percent of ARC’s warehouse survey respondents anticipate an increase of order throughput volumes in 2021. Here are a few more data points supporting the ongoing labor needs of warehousing and transportation operations.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 18, 2017

As I prepared my keynote presentation for the BluJay Solutions’ SOAR 2017 conference , I recalled this experience and saw it as a good metaphor for the difficulties many companies are having today responding effectively to the blizzard of supply chain management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

This is a public, multinational providing different types of electronic and machinery products for different industries. The company has over 300,000 products. On any given day, 150,000 order lines flow through 90 distribution centers across 50 nations. The company also needs to drive cash efficiency and improved productivity.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 21, 2023

Today, at its Beyond conference, Samsara Inc. NYSE:IOT), announced product innovations designed to reshape the worker experience for organizations managing complex physical operations. MEM is a software solution that simplifies mobile management at scale so workers stay safe, connected, and productive. and Canada.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2018

While a degree of uncertainty over the future of free trade between Mexico and its Nafta neighbours to the north once again hung over discussions at this year’s Automotive Logistics Mexico conference, it was more than matched by confidence in the future of the automotive sector. Mexico made 3.8m Digital from the start.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

INFORM , a leading provider of AI-based optimisation software that facilitates improved decision making, processes and resource management, will be exhibiting its yard management system and optimisation solutions for the supply chain at Modex 2022, March 28th-31st at the Georgia World Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

Yesterday, we talked about delivery of a product,” Hughes added. Today, delivery is the product.”. There were a lot of great sessions and speakers during the conference, but I don’t have the time or space to summarize them all today. It’s the reason why On Time In Full (OTIF) is a critical supply chain metric today.

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Stord

MAY 14, 2019

May 15) -- STORD®, the pioneer of Networked Distribution, next-generation warehousing and distribution for modern shippers, today announced the relocation of its headquarters to Atlanta’s historic Biltmore Hotel, located directly across from Midtown’s Technology Square, a multi-block part of the Georgia Institute of Technology campus.

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Material Handling and Logistics

APRIL 12, 2018

Shipments of food, household goods and health and beauty products can now arrive at regional distribution centers one day early due as suppliers like General Mills and Hershey face a driver shortage as well as new driving regulations that have sent shipping costs spiraling. Just months after tightening them, Walmart Inc.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

The answers were revealed at the SummerCon 2017 conference a couple of weeks ago where LLamasoft introduced “Planning by Design” and SupplyChainPlanning.com, which the company describes as “building blocks to improve your current planning capabilities through design technology.”. What would this “next generation solution” be?

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

announced at its recent Momentum Connect customer conference a landmark advancement in supply chain efficiency and optimisation. True convergence of supply chain execution systems has always offered a tantalising opportunity for significant efficiency, productivity, and agility improvement. Manhattan Associates Inc.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The high level of registrations is gratifying and also underlines the exhibitors’ desire to once again offer customers a live experience with the new products.”. To give exhibitors and visitors the best possible exposure to their target audience, the IAA Conference will focus on different key topics over four days.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Today, at its 2023 European Exchange customer conference, Manhattan Associates Inc. With access to accurate data, retailers can deliver actionable insight into the hands of their associates, enabling them to add value to every customer’s unique path to purchase,” Seroux continued.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 22, 2024

trillion, about 30% of world GDP, according to a 2021 report by UNCTAD, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. However, obstacles such as regulatory complexity, data security risks, and supply chain disruptions, create constraints within which the industry must operate. twas ever thus.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Shippers and logistics suppliers must share information to build a more secure and efficient pharma supply chain, delegates at the Cool Chain Association (CCA) 6th Pharma and Biosciences Conference in Brussels, Belgium heard this week. The new normal could be the delivery driver is also the nurse giving the injection. “We www.ajot.com.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

He succeeds INFORM North America founder and Chairman, Adrian Weiler, who will continue in his role as ongoing advisor to the CEOs across all INFORM Group entities, as well as serving as a representative of the organization in leading industry associations and conferences.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The final session on Day Two of The Logistics Business Show sees speakers from Interroll, Damon Group and PC Data cover the subject of Materials Handling: Intralogistics Projects and Innovations at 15.00 They will also be welcome to attend one of the 10 highly relevant conference sessions that run across all four days of the event.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These “orchestration” solutions provide highly configurable, flexible, and efficient workflows that combine voice, scanning and displays, in addition to real-time management tools such as workflow management, exception reporting, and productivity tracking.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 20, 2020

Today, at its online-only Momentum Connect customer conference, WMS software specialist Manhattan Associates Inc., , announced the new Manhattan Active Warehouse Management solution, which it described as “the world’s first cloud-native enterprise-class WMS that unifies every aspect of distribution and never needs upgrading.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2019

Many of these have now moved from test stages into series production and practical operation. We will always have some proof of technology, concepts and pilots in production, however there will be a point in time where we say the basis is set,” he said. From this moment the data security is on.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Which is why a drone took flight from the stage during Ryan’s keynote address at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Conference a couple of weeks ago and broadcast real-time video of the audience as it flew across the front of the hall. The R&D team delivered about 350 product releases in 2016. Will this include drone deliveries?

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

For example, with a substantial decline in the availability of forklift drivers recognised as a major problem, a growing number of warehouse and distribution centre operators see driverless forklift truck technology as the solution to the recruitment and employment cost challenges they face.

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Now, That's Logistics

JULY 13, 2018

As attendees at this year’s SEMICON West conference saw this week, advanced technology is playing a major role in these new “connected” logistics, warehousing, and transportation networks. IoT and blockchain, for example, can facilitate the recording of every transaction across multiple copies of the distributed ledger.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 11, 2015

As the world is more distributed and players within the supply chain in transportation, manufacturing, and distribution are varied, applying a supplier quality management system in your business may allow you to stay more strategic and collaborative. Getting Serious About a Supplier Quality Management System.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 8, 2016

The dates on POs and MOs should be (if managed correctly) offset respecting lead times, and the due dates must meet the Master Production Schedule (MPS). After the period is over, the Master Production Scheduler sees if the MPS was completed as planned. The actual vs. planned is measured, and the next MPS is set up based on this data.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Each blog post written is distributed into groups that reach the supply chain community as well as professionals in manufacturing, transportation, distribution, and more. VMI is an opportunity for suppliers to refine inventory control for their distribution channels, and ultimately, lower costs to the end user.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Transport management and visibility specialist Transporeon recently staged an online conference which very neatly replicated the format of the real-world version with a quirky navigation that allowed attendees to enter different rooms in a faithfully reproduced virtual ‘venue’. The same concept will apply in Distribution Centres on land.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 8, 2018

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is planning to open its tenth parts distribution centre (PDC) in the US at the beginning of next year as it moves toward its goal of providing next day delivery to more than 90% of its US dealers. The latest opening follows the centre DTNA opened in Grimes, Iowa in May this year.

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