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Package Theft Season is Here

Logistics Viewpoints

Package theft is on the rise as “porch pirates” continue to swipe packages from people’s doorsteps. The holiday season is the busiest time for package theft, as more and more items are delivered. For the 2023 holiday season alone, it is anticipated that between 850 million and 950 million packages will be delivered.

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A New Approach to Small Parcel with Tyler Abderholden

The Logistics of Logistics

Merchants simply purchase a label and their package can be picked up from their front door. You can choose to have your packages picked up from your front door or drop them off at a nearby location. Sendle offsets the carbon emissions of every package you send, at no extra cost. Free pickup, easy dropoff.

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Autonomous Robotic Piece-Picking System

Logistics Business Magazine

RightHand Robotics, a provider of data-driven, autonomous robotic picking solutions for order fulfillment, announces the launch of its next-generation solution, the RightPick 4 system. This massive amount of data has helped us create a smarter, more robust solution for real-world fulfillment challenges.”

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4 Ways to Enhance Warehouse Efficiency with Prescriptive and Predictive Analytics

Logistics Viewpoints

Traditional slotting solutions require customized models, extensive engineering, measurement, and data collection. They learn the spatial characteristics of the DC, and predict task time based on activity-level data captured in the DC. Predictive analytics can inject some intelligence into this process.

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Drone Delivery is Here with Tom Walker

The Logistics of Logistics

The data from the research, combined with his military search and rescue experience, led to the creation of DroneUp. DroneUP has a network of over 10,000 pilots who can deliver packages to customers within minutes. Tom is a UAS industry pioneer with patents on mobile app technology. The Greenscreens.ai

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Six Package Sorting Mistakes That Impact Your On-Time Delivery Rates

Locus

Let’s find out the five package sorting mistakes that impact the on-time delivery rates for businesses. Incorrect Address Mislabeled packages due to incorrect address data are simple and often repeated or overlooked mistakes in sorting. A mislabeled package from an incorrect address will reach the wrong sorting center.

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Forklift picking enhanced with RFID labels

Logistics Business Magazine

Location detection can take place in real time and continuously, or at crucial places such as zone changes, or when items are scanned, picked up and dropped off. The data generated enable pick-up and drop-off location control, efficient route calculation and route registration. Smart forklifts.

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