Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2023

E-Commerce Fulfillment Needs Remain Paramount Of course, the need to run warehouse operations more effectively and efficiently is the primary and ongoing reason for WMS sales. For example, warehouse labor management has consistently been an important add-on to WMS. The WMS selection process has evolved to a WMS-plus selection process.

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Conger

MARCH 14, 2024

In this comprehensive guide, we will dive into everything you need to know about clamp trucks, including: What clamp trucks are and how they work Materials they can handle Types of clamp attachments and their uses Importance of clamp force control for stability And More! They make it easier and safer to move difficult-to-handle materials.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

“Peak demands in energy are among the main causes of skyrocketing costs when it comes to operating electric industrial trucks,” says Stefan Roth, Product Manager Energy Systems at Linde Material Handling. Additionally, a dashboard allows forklift drivers and fleet operators to retrieve all the relevant information.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Toyota Material Handling UK has helped the award-winning premium snack producer, Burts Snacks, to reduce intralogistics costs and achieve significant handling efficiency gains across its business. For example, if a lead acid battery is opportunity charged, this can cause significant implications to the battery.

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Conger

JULY 6, 2023

Develop Your Operator Trainer Course Materials: Per OSHA , the program must include practical (hands-on) training to know whether or not the operator has the required experience. Examples include when the operator has been involved in an incident or near miss, been observed driving in an unsafe manner, or if workplace conditions change.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

We’re talking about tasks like picking and packing orders, verifying delivery addresses, finding the most affordable way to ship packages, tracking deliveries, handling problems, and managing returns. Let’s take ShipMonk, for example, one of the fastest-growing 3PL fulfillment providers in the US. You do have other options, of course.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 15, 2024

Together with his son Johannes Danieli (project manager), the founder has therefore set the course entering new markets to offer a solution to these growing demands. For example, conveyor belt systems with motors and sensors have already been pre-assembled in medium-sized quantities of up to 500 units per project.

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Stord

JULY 6, 2022

All of these other players build technology to augment the specific physical logistics services that they offer and/or give clients insights into exactly what these logistics companies are doing on their behalf (for example what orders were shipped). Other logistics partners can help to solve one piece of this puzzle.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

AI-based object recognition and grip point determination allow the robot to handle a wide array of items. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) handle in-house transport jobs and offer many benefits that conventional conveyors simply cannot provide. The intelligent KiSoft software suite functions as the brain of Pick-it-Easy Robot.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Of course, the progress of Amazon Prime over the last decade has leveled the playing field quite a bit. Together, these capabilities support the proactive shipping of packages toward potential customer destinations in a manner designed to improve customer experience (timeliness) with low inventory handling and transportation costs.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2022

With what looks to be another challenging year ahead, Antalis Packaging shares why it believes it’s time to invest in carton handling and pallet wrapping equipment. How investing in carton handling equipment and pallet wrapping automation could provide the step-change businesses are looking for in 2023: Labour.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 3, 2022

There are many other similar growth examples in warehouse automation. Do they have reason to believe it has run its course? Daifuku doesn’t explicitly break out warehouse automation, but it does report on its intralogistics business (including manufacturing material handling). It also breaks out end-user industries.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 6, 2022

Of course, with global energy prices soaring, the commercial incentive for operating in an environmentally conscious way has never been greater. For example, as part Combilift’s drive to help customers achieve their aims of more sustainable operations, over 60% of the company’s output is now electric.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Of course, that all depends on seeing the activities that are occurring, benchmarking current carrier operations and continuously improving. Of course, there are many other trucking KPIs that frequently are utilized by managers to monitor fleet operations. And freight KPIs can serve as a valuable tool for freight market intelligence.

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GoShip Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

There are many different parties that handle the shipment process up to the point when it reaches the final destination. The course of action you need to take will ultimately depend on the type of damage that affects your freight shipments. Imagine the long journey your package has gone to reach your doorstep.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

At the heart of many of its tailored solutions is FANUC’s M-410 series of industrial palletising robots, renowned for its ability to handle heavy items, such as pallets of fresh produce. During this time, the company has built a reputation for delivering robust robotic systems that promote the safe, efficient and fast handling of fresh fish.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 31, 2024

For example, our advanced 3PL platform looks after every aspect of your supply chain in an efficient, effective way and our Virtual Carrier Network safeguards your shipping by always applying the best rates and speeds while not handcuffing you to any carrier. Of course we’re talking about your ecommerce store’s data security.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2021

That’s a massive problem for SMEs, for example, that last year might have been paying $4,000 to $5,000 (USD) to ship a 40-foot container from Asia to North America, and now face rates of $20,000 and above. A Multitude of Cost Components. Export fees. Documentation fees. Challenge #3: The Complexities of Compliance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2022

Of course, virtually everyone relied upon direct-to-consumer fulfillment at some point during the COVID-19 lockdowns, placing widespread reliance on warehousing capabilities. Fewer companies are requiring college degrees, for example. While it seems as though warehouse managers can breathe a sigh of relief, this isn’t exactly the case.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 11, 2023

First, of course, it is about the distribution centre and the number of pallets and customer orders that are handled every day. Prieschenk is convinced: “We have to question things like whether it would make sense to handle less inventory in the supply chain. We have to re-define efficiency in the design phase with the customer.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 22, 2023

How, for example, must future user interfaces or tools be designed? For example, with our on-demand service tool WITOOL, the handling and documentation of all active and proactive service and maintenance work becomes much more transparent, both in terms of organization and execution. “The Technical” ergonomics is important.

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Ship Monk

JUNE 5, 2023

Anyone who owns an ecommerce brand has unwittingly been through a crash course in ecommerce logistics. They start out by handling fulfillment manually, but quickly learn that speed, efficiency, accuracy, partnerships, and scalability are essential to the success of their ecommerce business. But what about reverse logistics? Shipping 4.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2022

Narrow Aisle Ltd – the VNA materials handling solutions specialist – recently hosted a series of distributor open days at its UK Flexi Truck manufacturing plant in Great Bridge, West Midlands. But lithium-ion technology is now regarded as ideally suited to the needs of modern, 24/7 logistics and e-fulfilment operations.”.

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Dedola Global Logistics

JUNE 19, 2020

For example, customs-related delays are often due to paperwork or procedural errors due to inexperience or neglect. Well-trained customer service representatives like those at Dedola Global Logistics can handle current concerns, as well as help clients think about future shipping needs. Most problems are preventable.

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Camelot 3PL Software

MAY 29, 2020

When an order cannot be fulfilled in its entirety, a decision needs to be made on how to handle the order, and there are many outcomes. Shortage scenarios, whether short ship or short cancel, are usually trivial for the warehouse to handle in a normal process flow. See the link below to download the full ebook.

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Kanban Logistics

MAY 26, 2023

For example, 8 items – milk, peanuts, eggs, soy, tree nuts, wheat, fish, and shellfish – account for 90% of allergic reactions in the U.S. For example, at Kanban’s warehouses, certain products can only be unloaded, stored, or transported within a designated section of the warehouse by authorized personnel. Sanitation efforts.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 7, 2023

Standardise and Digitise The key to managing complexity, of course, is to be organised. You can then use that calculation as the basis of a handling charge for customers to be deducted from their return credit or factored into any cost-to-serve analysis you might perform to determine customer profitability.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 6, 2022

And, of course, better space utilisation means increased storage capacity – which, in turn, equals reduced storage costs per square foot. This often means that the space savings achieved by reducing the aisle widths can be lost.

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Now, That's Logistics

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

When it comes to the exchange of information, it is of course problematic.”. Plus, most booking platforms allow shippers to book online and also handle invoicing, but they can’t track the entire transaction lifecycle from price discovery to final settlement. with even further complicating the shipping process.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It is an honourable award that we place great value on, and it is of course nice to be recognized together with the region’s other actors in the field of logistics. The Port of Gothenburg handles 53% of Sweden’s total container freight and volume growth is stable with nine straight quarters of increased container throughput.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

China, for example, only produces 14% of their total units, only 3% of those units end up being exported to the United States and 2% to EMEA. Much of the world’s fabric is produced in Asia, for example. TGW is their material handling supplier and Manhattan Associates is the warehouse management system supplier.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Boxes of Hope, a humanitarian aid charity that was established to send food, clothing, medicine and other essential items to the people of Ukraine following the country’s invasion by Russia, has taken delivery of a vinyl-wrapped forklift truck donated free-of-charge by Toyota Material Handling (TMH) UK Ltd. The forklift – a 2.5

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Logistics Manager

MARCH 3, 2020

Container handling at 9.3 The marked increase in container handling, growth in total seaborne cargo throughput, and the disproportionate leap in environment-friendly rail borne hinterland traffic, all show that the Port of Hamburg is on the right course. In 2019, this handled some 62,000 freight trains with around 1.7

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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

When trying to book a specific slot on a container ship (yes, the ones that can handle the equivalent of 20,000 containers), prices have exceeded $16,000 (!). Ships that WERE sailing were stuck in backlogs before unloading due to COVID outbreaks at the ports and not enough capacity to handle record container volumes at the ports.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2021

For example, you might use simple observation to identify visible defects at goods-in, or you could make your analysis a bit deeper by testing a percentage of items received from the supplier. For example, every purchase order costs money to raise and process, as does every invoice. Supplier Defect Rate. Vendor Availability.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The company in this example has tailored its fulfilment concept precisely to these demands and implemented it with state-of-the-art technology from its long-term intralogistics partner SSI Schaefer. Example contents include headache pills, nasal sprays, and adhesive bandages.

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Conger

MAY 28, 2021

How to handle different driving surfaces. An example of a forklift certification card. Evaluation typically consists of obstacle courses, picking up sample loads, and in general, seeing how the operator trainee handles driving, turning, and reversing. Online courses. In-person courses. Online Courses.

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