Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), for example, can perform many tasks in warehouse or distribution center settings (including moving pallets, product picking and fulfillment) that are typically viewed as repetitive or non value-added, thereby freeing the workforce to perform other activities and ultimately increasing productivity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 27, 2023

Here are some tips for making your WMS Budget work (you can apply this thinking to an upgrade or other supply chain solution implementation too): List hardware costs – Examine what devices (voice picking, etc.), For example, monthly subscription fees, any software support charges, and data migration fees.

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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

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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Ship Monk

MARCH 12, 2024

By having items pre-bundled online, picking and packing times go down because items slotted in your fulfillment center space may already be categorized in groupings. An example of this could be ordering a custom car. From an ecommerce business perspective, kitting allows brands to streamline their operations.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Of course, there is no quick and easy way to curb increases in the cost of energy and labour, but now is an excellent time to start thinking about practical ways to reduce energy usage and increase labour productivity and efficiency. For example, you could reduce human labour by deploying robotic equipment or other forms of direct automation.

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The Lean Thinker

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The answer is, of course, a little situational. For example, name the feeling you are picking up to test your hypothesis: “It seems you are really frustrated by this…” Then listen. For example, perhaps something like “If this obstacle were cleared, how would the process operate?”

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Innovative design details often make the difference for successful storage and order picking, says Edward Hutchison, Managing Director of BITO Storage Systems. Often it will be the small, innovative design details that make the critical difference for designing a truly successful storage and order picking solution.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

There is no zero-touch fulfilment without robotic picking. KNAPP’s Pick-it-Easy Robot (pictured) will pack and pick diverse items into different containers in a live demonstration. The intelligent KiSoft software suite functions as the brain of Pick-it-Easy Robot. It’s quite an impressive interplay of robots and software.

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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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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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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2022

Of course, lead acid batteries remain a highly efficient option for electric forklifts and many electric Flexi Truck lift trucks still feature this type of battery. Maguire added: “We see it as essential that our product offering constantly evolves and, of course, sustainability drives much of our research and development thinking.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 6, 2022

With typical VNA – very narrow aisle – applications aisle widths can be reduced to between 1,600 and 1,800mm, which allow e-Fulfilment customer orders to be picked at ground level shelves and locations. This often means that the space savings achieved by reducing the aisle widths can be lost.

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Ship Monk

MAY 26, 2022

Below are just a few examples of different robots that 3PLs can use to enhance productivity. Picking and Packing Robots benefit fulfillment facilities in terms of speed and accuracy. Exemplary 3PLs don’t have to use all of these robots, of course, just as a great fruit salad doesn’t need to use every kind of fruit in existence.

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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. To support digital sales, distribution centers increasingly need to support pick-and-pack, rather than shipping pallets.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This, of course, means that streamlining those warehousing and fulfillment operations can drive profitability. Warehouse workers and advanced robots work side by side as orders are prioritized, picked, packed, and loaded onto trucks. Inventory moves in and out of warehouses, on and off shelves.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 13, 2023

Whether you manage your own fulfillment operations or partner with a third-party logistics provider (3PL) , it’s all about getting orders picked accurately and out the door on time. Hundreds of orders, coming from multiple channels, marketplaces and shopping platforms can be received at the same time, and prioritized for picking and packing.

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The Lean Thinker

MARCH 30, 2018

In Joy, Inc , Rich Sheridan describes the often contentious process of then forcing the customer to pick a single persona as the primary user – the persona whose needs will drive all decisions about optimization. For example, for an ideal retail experience, a mom with two kids in tow would be a different customer than a single guy.

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Conger

JULY 6, 2023

10 OSHA Forklift Refresher Training Examples How to Choose a Quality Forklift Refresher Training Program Where to Find Forklift Refresher Training Courses Forklift Refresher Training Formats: Online, In-Person, and Hybrid Common OSHA Forklift Refresher Training Requirements Questions What Are OSHA's Forklift Refresher Training Requirements?

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

So, for example, if your business competes strongly on price, you might go heavy on the cost-reduction side of supply chain management, setting objectives centered on savings. Conflicting KPIs: A Brief Example. Of course, you can have as many other metrics as you like, but the KPIs are the ones that should form a catalyst for action.

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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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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 21, 2022

There were 10 fatal injuries in 2020/21 – a period that of course includes the Covid pandemic – which compares with the annual average number of 13 fatalities for 2016/17-2020/21. A distribution centre typically operates with a mixed fleet of counterbalance, narrow aisle and order picking trucks rushing around it.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

However, there is of course a cost to processing a return and this is leading some retailers to question the economics of free returns and to consider invoking a charge for customers. For example, pallet racking can be configured with a single pallet bay level and shelving above to provide locations for unpalletised ‘returned to stock’ items.

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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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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 19, 2021

It would, of course, be what the winning time was when this race was last run in your district. They had a little issue with their picking productivity in the warehouse. This helped us realise that their picking productivity should be three times better than it was. It’s exactly the same in business.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 8, 2022

Covid-19 – and the lockdowns introduced in an effort to restrict its spread among the population – changed the way goods are stored, picked and moved to the consumer dramatically, with the switch to online shopping in particular forcing retailers and their logistics partners to radically rethink and rapidly adapt well-established working practices.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The answer depends, of course, on your company’s objectives and, particularly, on your customer service promises. It’s a random approach in which, for example, a consignment of electric blenders might find a home in a storage location between bottles of shampoo on one side, and dog collars on the other.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

100,000 sq m is designed for a peak picking performance of 583,000 cases per day. End-to-end in terms of the cases and load carriers to be picked: Piece picking, case picking, totes, half pallets, full pallets, roll containers, and insulated containers. The facility with a size of approx. High level of automation.

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Stord

MAY 30, 2022

Shipping Soulmates - Matthew Hertz (Episode 1) Matthew Hertz, co-founder at Second Marathon , joins Alex to discuss the current obstacles brands face and how they can pick the right 3PL to overcome them. One key example can be found in the shocking swings in freight, postal services, and drayage costs. Of Course You Do!

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 21, 2021

And of course, it hinges on the ability to understand and maintain consistency in your metrics. . As a few examples, these are four critical KPIs to focus on: Owner-operator to driver ratio – A lower ratio here means more opportunities for in-house drivers who bring more affordable rates. .

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GoShip Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The course of action you need to take will ultimately depend on the type of damage that affects your freight shipments. For example, changes in climatic zones and moisture content result in container rain , leading to damaged freight. What are the types of damaged freight? How can businesses deal with damaged freight?

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

For example, Ireland’s leading furniture importer and wholesaler reduced complexity and increased its stock volumes in 40% less overall space by investing in a new facility and implementing a state-of-the art WMS. Another possibility is that the profile of the stock is different, for example more larger pallets or fewer small ones, and so on.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 29, 2024

Within the course of one online chat, an isolated email response, or a single phone call, someone who bought from your ecommerce brand can be influenced whether or not to buy from you again. Of course it is, right? And no, that wasn’t an exaggerated example to make a point. Let’s find out the TOP 10 now! Move Like the Wind!

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Conger

MAY 11, 2022

AGVs are automated material handling equipment that follows predefined paths with limited ability to make real-time corrections to its course. AMRs are automated material handling equipment that use digital maps or sensors to navigate its environment, while being able to make real-time course correction. When Were AGVs Invented?

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 27, 2021

For example, Shipper X (an aggregation of two household-name CPG companies) uses intermodal for ~90% of its dry loads in a number of dense long-haul lanes. Those factors, of course, serve as limitations to converting truckloads into intermodal units. . Source: SONAR, To learn more about FreightWaves SONAR, click here. ).

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Mr. Niebur did not say which risk management solution provider they picked, but I suspect they implemented a solution from riskmethods. Can you give me a concrete example of how your risk management solution detected a threat and came to the rescue? The implementation of this digital risk platform was supported by targetP!,

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 27, 2021

Meet BOPIS, otherwise known as one of the most popular baby names of 2021 — we’re kidding, of course. BOPIS stands for “Buy Online, Pick Up In-Store,” and it’s super straightforward: Just search for the items you want, click “Buy,” and pick your order up at your chosen store’s nearest location. As always, we’re here to help.

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