Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 22, 2023

KG and talks about ergonomics in logistics and the distribution centre. Those who can’t meet basic ergonomic requirements no longer have a chance to present themselves on the market as an attractive employer”, Johannes Schweiger says. Johannes Schweiger (pictured) is managing director of Witron Service GmbH + Co. Those days are over.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Edward Napier-Fenning, Sales & Marketing Director of leading supply chain software company Balloon , explores five key areas that can boost performance – including route planning, picking, labour management reporting and data entry. Quite suddenly, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

But, of course, with so many cases in such a vastly populated nation, the risk of a new variant emerging to start the whole cycle over again cannot be underestimated. For companies wishing to decouple their supply chains from China but struggling to do so, the current situation presents an unsettling start to 2023.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

A worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction, Saint-Gobain is present in 72 countries with more than 167,000 employees. Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures, and distributes materials and solutions for the construction, mobility, healthcare and other industrial application markets. million kilometers of highway.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 31, 2018

It’s no surprise that the current labor market is presenting a big challenge for organizations within the supply chain. Then look at key metrics like total line items per order, picks per hour, and cost per pick per SKU to identify weak links and the most opportunistic areas for improvements. Trouble finding skilled labor”.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2021

Naturally, overall cost-to-serve will be higher for online than in-store sales due to the added expense involved in picking, packing, and delivering customers’ purchases. The above examples reflect costs that include picking, packing, and last-mile delivery. Those expenses can increase the cost to serve by a considerable amount.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

Many cold chains move goods in and out of stores rapidly and involve all the break-bulk, order-picking, stock rotation and other operations familiar to ambient warehousing. Using AMRs rather than ride-on vehicles eliminates the known hazards of the latter – present in any warehouse operation but exacerbated in cold and slippery conditions.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

An example of this might be the implementation of a warehouse productivity KPI that encourages the workforce to pick more orders per hour. Unfortunately, as picking speed increases, so too does the likelihood of picking errors, which would work against any service-oriented KPI such as perfect order, picking accuracy, or delivery in full.

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3PL Links

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Decide between outsourcing returns management or not: Outsourcing this management will, of course, allow you to concentrate on your core competencies and avoid incurring the costs of acquiring this knowledge, or even profit from the cost reductions offered by the subcontractor’s knowledge.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Even before the emergence of COVID-19, next-day and same-day delivery promises from mega retailers, as well as new delivery models such as store pick-up, were driving increasing customer expectations — not just in retail, but in every industry. 1] Now that same concept is poised to similarly disrupt the world of distribution.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 8, 2019

Statistic: A mere 10% of distribution centres exclusively handle pallets, while 66% handle a mixture of pallets, cases, split cases, and pieces. . Source : Logistics Management 2018 Distribution Center Survey. . Trend #2: Distribution Nodes Moving Closer to Customers. Trend #1: Warehouses are Getting Smarter. What is a WCS?

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

The importance of picking and shipping the right product to the right customer is a given. Footage is immediately available that shows what is actually happening in the distribution centres. And of course, if the cameras are switched off, nothing gets recorded anyway. But mistakes happen. Where did an error occur?

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Hase Safety Group sets course for growth: Automated industrial trucks are also very flexible in combination with variable goods transfer. Until today, the course is clearly set on growth. It houses new logistics areas, an innovation centre for customer training, product development and product presentation.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 14, 2018

Affected by changes in production, procurement and distribution methods, warehousing has continually been pushed and pulled in different directions. Logistics services provider TNT runs a large distribution hub in Belgium. From a simple place to stock goods, warehouses have developed in many ways—function and form included.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Richard grabbed attendees from the off by revealing he has had an RFID chip inserted into his wrist and hopes to have another in his brain in due course. in a world without harbours as smaller autonomous vessels and drones pick up directly from those huge ships well away from ports. You’ll never need your wallet again, he promises.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 31, 2018

It’s no surprise that the current labor market is presenting a big challenge for organizations within the supply chain. Then look at key metrics like total line items per order, picks per hour, and cost per pick per SKU to identify weak links and the most opportunistic areas for improvements. Trouble finding skilled labor”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 12, 2020

This means that they can be used from production right through to distribution in one smooth, easy stream and then can be reused for multiple trips. When you consider all these benefits, why wouldn’t you use nestable plastic pallets in racking?

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ShipLilly

JULY 23, 2019

Fulfillment for your products deserves a great deal of attention and needs to be done well but as a startup or an entrepreneur, it may behoove you to focus more on your company and allow existing distribution networks to fulfill your sales regardless of volume. Costs, of course, are the first and most important component here.

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Ship Monk

OCTOBER 11, 2022

That way, the oldest merchandise is picked first, whether by a customer in a brick and mortar store, a forklift at a wholesale distribution center, or a picker at an eCommerce order fulfillment center. Under the LIFO method, the newest units of inventory are stocked in front and picked off the shelf first.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

While the pandemic has helped ecommerce companies increase sales immeasurably, it has, at the same time, disrupted the global supply chains that so many retailers rely on and, by accelerating ecommerce sales growth so quickly, placed immense pressure on distribution networks. It can, of course, be done using a spreadsheet solution.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 7, 2023

Standardise and Digitise The key to managing complexity, of course, is to be organised. Do you recognise any of the above symptoms in your distribution centre? So what can you do to ensure your inventory management meets the challenge of multichannel sales?

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Picking and packing. It can of course also be used to make an already profitable relationship even more profitable! A product can be analysed in terms of overall costs to stock and distribute it. Besides optimising the present or fixing the past, CTS reporting and analysis opens the door to what-if scenarios and projections.

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Conger

JULY 20, 2020

Of course not. 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. The course will most likely have end-of-section quizzes to test your knowledge.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

However the stretch wrapping process presents some disadvantages. The customers are often present during these trials, which clearly strengthens their trust in us,” Spiekermann has noticed. “Together with the manufacturer we have developed a film with very small holes distributed on the whole film,” says Spiekermann.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 15, 2018

Of course that’s really not such a bold prediction to make, since some warehouses are already running dark today. Dark Distribution Centres. In the distribution centre of 2028, we can probably expect the majority of activities to be automated, from goods receiving, through put-away and picking, to packing and dispatch.

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PINC

OCTOBER 2, 2019

This can turn into an even bigger problem for the driver who has been behind the wheel all day and is now coming up on the maximum 14 hours he can work in the course of a day (truckers can only drive 11 total hours a day). notification to pick up a loaded trailer) have greatly improved our on-time delivery to our customers.”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Much-like the business philosophy of Kaizen that came before it, Gemba Process Innovation presents an opportunity to benefit European businesses. Of course, technology alone cannot solve these challenges. It all begins with deep business understanding. In logistics.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 23, 2014

We pick up where we left off yesterday from posting the Top 10 Manufacturing Blog Posts for 2014 by page views from the Cerasis blog by featuring the Top 10 Supply Chain Blog Posts in 2014. Whether driven by reducing costs or by new business strategies, rethinking your distribution network optimization has become more important than ever.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 23, 2018

Robotics systems help distribution facilities gain speed, increase accuracy, cut costs, and handle the grunt work so employees can focus on more productive tasks. E-commerce sales continue to climb, forcing retailers to pick up the pace in their fulfillment and distribution centers. And no resume or job interview required.

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Stord

APRIL 26, 2022

Brands are expanding their warehouse footprint farther away from the coastal ports, like in Reno, Nevada; converting vacant storefronts into fulfillment centers; and planning multistory distribution centers to maximize the space available. Of course, transportation is not without its current challenges—getting goods from Asia to the U.S.

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Logistics in War

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Logistics efforts over the last decade have been defined by managing global supply shortages, complex distribution systems, a reliance on industry to act at short notice to meet procurement requirements and adapt products and services, and with little appreciation of the role that logistics would eventually play in shaping strategy and tactics.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 18, 2017

No wonder then, that shippers increasingly turn to 3PLs to manage their warehousing and distribution needs. From the following paragraphs, you’ll gain a brief insight into some common RFT mistakes and the difficulties they present to 3PL solution designers. Vagaries in the Scope of Work. Doing Without Detailed Data.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 4, 2019

To feed this demand, they’re educating personal shoppers, developing new technologies to handle the last-mile, rethinking distribution networks and inventory planning, and partnering with technology companies. Another option is BOPIS—buy online, pick up in store. And, of course, they lack drivers who need to be paid.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

The WPio20 low-lift pallet truck designed as a pedestrian pallet truck and the PPXsio20 low-lift pallet truck with folding driver’s platform are the first to be presented. Two further battery-powered low-lift trucks with load capacities of 1,500 and 1,800 kg will follow in the course of the year.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 6, 2018

This is just one example of how the convergence of humans and robots could play out in the warehouse and distribution center (DC) of the future. On the dock, robots have to be able to pick up pallets, cases, or boxes and then put them on some sort of conveyance system that pulls them off the truck. The early stages of innovation.

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Forto

AUGUST 20, 2018

Of course, any consolidation strategy will increase the amount of risk present, but the benefits outweigh the potential dangers in consolidation. Of course, shippers retain the option of consolidating freight into LTL and full truckload shipments before contacting a freight forwarder. Faster speed-to-market.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It all started with Alexander’s scrambled eggs, which he, of course, preferred warm versus cold. “I With the unexpected boost in sales came new manufacturing and distribution challenges, the likes of which the company hadn’t experienced before. In 2017, Ember decided to bring its entire distribution chain under a single umbrella.

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