Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Networked production processes and digital factories provide an important key to securing Germany’s competitiveness and innovative strength as a business centre. For years, everyone has been talking about the future project Industry 4.0. to good use. to good use.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

The problem was that when the planning solution spit out recommendations, and someone in sourcing or someone on the factory floor looked at those recommendations, they just did not believe them. Your inventory levels in the factory are right, your routings are accurate. One example of this is the use of color wheels in the model.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I’m a supply chain industry analyst, so naturally my takeaways are influenced by my coverage area. This year, Mr. Ellison spun a vision of how the global agricultural industry’s value chain could be reconstructed to improve the quality of food while making the industry much more sustainable. Oracle CloudWorld happened last week.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As automated guided vehicles ( AGVs ) navigate through warehouses or production halls, they become real data collectors. Data that is, however, immediately deleted again. The data collected via sensors and cameras can be used in the ARIBIC cloud to create continuously updated 3D maps of warehouses or production facilities.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 21, 2024

The enhanced digital Monitoring Box Premium service analyses and displays accurate data from SICK’s FTMg multifunctional flow sensors that measure the compressed air usage of machines and processes. Compressed air consumption data is visualised in easy-to-use graphic displays, while alarms can be set up to alert when new leaks occur.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It is common for pundits to look ahead and predict how an industry or profession will change. In warehouses, for example, one solution is labor management. But the difficulty in finding workers has becoming a huge challenge at many factories and warehouses. COVID was a Fukushima category event that applied to all industries.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Addressing industry pain points with ERP. The latest World Manufacturing Report, reveals that industries that adopted new technology started recovering faster from the pandemic, with increases of at least 10% in the first quarter of 2021, while low-technology industries registered a comparably lower growth rate of only 5.8%.

Manufacturing Procurement 119

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. For example, are you still a minority owned company?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

And in the intervening years — as we’ve leveraged real-time data, ML and AI to help countless companies answer the “where’s my truck” question — I’ve continued to underscore that visibility is a foundational technology. The entire supply chain industry was caught flat-footed by the seismic disruptions wrought by the pandemic.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2020

The pace of reported coronavirus cases has slowed in the most seriously affected regions of China, allowing factories to reopen and people to return to work. However, automakers and a plethora of other industries will only resume full production by mid-April due to a shortage of components. How China’s Manufacturing is Recovering.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Molex LLC offers more than 100,000 products across a variety of industries. Those industries include data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics. It is part of Koch Industries. The planners could choose to switch cargo from a slow-moving ship to air, for example.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

Data is stored just like you might sketch ideas on a whiteboard. Those insights are driven from data connections across the vast amounts of data these companies have access to. Planners in China rely on different data sources and operate with different business practices than those in North America.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A MSCN is a collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a many-to-many architecture which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds. Nulogy, for example, is a platform for collaboration between consumer goods brands and their copacker and comanufacturing partners. Then there is FourKites.

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Conger

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

This article has everything you need to know about forklift data plates, including: What a data plate is. How to read a forklift data plate. What Is a Forklift Data Plate? Where Is the Forklift Data Plate? Why Is the Data Plate Important? Can You Operate a Forklift Without a Data Plate? Quick Summary.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Current industrial manufacturing trends show the new administration is pushing for reshoring among the nation’s biggest manufacturers, and new technologies are revolutionizing how companies respond to growing skepticism and scrutiny by the public and government oversight as well. The "First Five" Industrial Manufacturing Trends of 2017.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

These potentially disruptive changes have moved from an infrequent inconvenience to a consistent stream of change that is redefining markets and entire industries. In the era of Industry 4.0 , IT and business decision-makers need to start embracing emerging technologies that will provide a competitive edge for their business into the future.

Digital 52

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ZF is a Tier 1 supplier to the automotive industry. This information includes a supplier profile that sets out the criteria for which suppliers are used to support the manufacture of designated products, and which factories those vendors supply. No industry has been more committed to lean practices than the auto industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Belcorp, like most companies in their industry, has quite a complex supply chain. In Belcorp’s case they have four factories located in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador. Production flexibility is limited; none of these factories can make all the company’s 1,500 products. What factory should make a new product?

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 18, 2023

Data analytics innovator Entopy has won a share of the UK government’s new £7 million fund to boost innovation in the freight industry. The funding will enable the company to extend the use of its unique software to help address the issues caused by a lack of large-scale cross-industry data collection and sharing.

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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. Not surprisingly a company this big, delivering different solutions to a variety of industries, has a complex supply chain. Those materials flow into over 170 factories in over 40 nations.

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Blue Grace Logistics

APRIL 28, 2023

billion in 2022, according to data from the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America, a trade group now part of the Global Private Capital Association. The data doesn’t include expansion by U.S. companies opening factories in Mexico, for example, nor investment in private real estate. Raker said. “We

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 19, 2021

The steel industry is not easy. Even before the pandemic the global steel industry was navigating significant disruptions that included steep price competition (China has been investigated numerous times for dumping), soft demand, and tariff issues. Planners come up with data-proven forecasts on what the market may buy.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 10, 2022

In order to participate in various research projects, develop innovative products and implement a smart factory, the intralogistics provider STILL has now set up its own 5G network at its Hamburg headquarters. On the other hand, we will optimise our production with super-fast data transmission technology. Industry 4.0

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2022

If a supplier’s continued material flow becomes questionable for a wide range of reasons, the way that supplier’s components flow to various factories and nodes in the supply chain is graphically illustrated and the appropriate commodity managers are automatically notified. This data needs to be curated.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Process manufacturing is not the same for all industries. For example, the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals vs. processing liquid waste in the mining industry. In the pharmaceutical example, it is a batch process manufacturing where the products are made as specified groups. Process industry challenges.

Manufacturing Procurement 119

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 21, 2022

There are many causes, for example, container ships from Asia are now too large to traverse the Panama Canal (20 years ago they were not), so they offload on the West Coast of the United States and are compelled to truck all goods to the East Coast. The AI, for example, should flag any orders that are way beyond the normal demands. .

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Now, That's Logistics

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Marine Exchange of Southern California, for example, reported that the backup of container ships has fallen from a peak of 109 vessels in January to just four ships in October. In early-November, Foxconn, one of Apple’s largest suppliers, was dealing with major disruption at its biggest iPhone assembly factory in China.

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CH Robinson Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2021

I’ve been in the industry since 1997 and I have never seen this level of continual disruption across the entire supply chain for this length of time. At year-end, we typically see a jump in demand as shippers meet quarter-end quotas and prepare for the upcoming Lunar New Year, during which many factories in China shut down.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 26, 2022

This is where the industry experiences an information overload. Calls for digital transformation , a bombardment of messages around Industry 4.0 When selecting an ERP system, it is important that you select a platform with the unlimited flexibility to pull data into the solution and use it strategically.

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MTS Logistics

MAY 27, 2022

We experience such diverse supply chain disruptions that tracking the data on U.S. The new problems stem from the recent port lockdowns, factory closures in Asia, a slow down in production, and mixed signals on U.S. For example, recently Target was forced to write down the value of excess inventory that’s stuck in warehouses.

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Conger

MARCH 22, 2024

These driverless machines have replaced some manual labor and forklifts, moving materials efficiently and safely, thus redefining industrial operations. In this article, we explore how these AGVs are changing the warehouse industry by minimizing human error, reducing labor costs, and setting new standards for productivity and safety.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

And the reasons spanned from a global chip shortage, to embargoes, to factory fires, to natural disasters. These are big data platforms that monitor news sources and assorted databases from governments, financial institutions, ESG NGOs, and other sources to detect when a negative event has occurred or may be about to occur.

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Morai Logistics

MARCH 14, 2019

An increase in sales means an increase in expectations, which also can cause many industries to feel constant pressure to keep up with customer demands. However, we often hear of these digital tools from a data and insight or a predictive analytic perspective. Why does manufacturing need to be ‘smart’?

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

By acquiring data from devices used by clients, enterprises receive information that allows them to improve their offerings. In short, a digital twin is a virtual copy of a physical object, device, machine, or even a production or industrial process. Will a machine really work in your factory? Digital twins explained.

Digital 28

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Conger

MARCH 22, 2024

These driverless machines have replaced some manual labor and forklifts, moving materials efficiently and safely, thus redefining industrial operations. In this article, we explore how these AGVs are changing the warehouse industry by minimizing human error, reducing labor costs, and setting new standards for productivity and safety.

Materials Handling 75

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ShipLilly

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The box availability data from Container xChange (an online platform) has confirmed this trend. In effect, the lower availability of containers across Asia has caused concern in the industry. This is the time when China’s factories are expected to close, particularly in the period running from the 1st to the 7th of October.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 20, 2022

With the autonomous vehicle industry booming and mobile robots, such as automated forklifts, AMRs and AGVs, experiencing exponential growth levels, the safety of humans and machines is kept at the forefront of manufacturing efforts. Detecting the Undetectable. Re-defining robotic safety.

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