article thumbnail

The Definitive Guide to High-Capacity Autonomous Mobile Robots

Supply Chain Brain

Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) like self-driving fork trucks, pallet trucks, and tuggers are now a key tool for material handling in most industries including Ecommerce, 3PL, Consumer Goods, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, and Medical Distribution. Could they help you too?

article thumbnail

Designing a warehouse: definition, options, factors and goals.

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

When designing a warehouse, some questions may come to your mind: How should a warehouse or distribution center look like? The process of distributing both the external and internal space of the facility shown on a plan is referred to as warehouse design or layout. What factors influence the warehouse layout plan?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Increasing Speed and Efficiency of Vaccine Distribution During Uncertainty

AIMMS

The tool Willem built with his students allows us to put the data in, click a button and wait a few seconds to get a feasible plan. It’s proved to be a valuable tool during camp season. The Camp Optimizer tool did much of the legwork and calculation behind the scenes, and saved us a lot of time and energy.” – Anne Paik.

article thumbnail

advantage through Distribution Networks

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

How to achieve a competitive advantage through Distribution Networks. After the lesson on distribution networks, I researched to complete the training a bit more and I found how to obtain efficiency on the distribution. Previous steps in the design of distribution networks.

article thumbnail

Technology Trends in Road Freight

GoShip Blog

Electronic logging devices and similar tools for truckers will create extensive, connected networks and will ease the data distribution across shippers, carriers, and consignees. Such technology like the Internet of Things(IoT), blockchain, big data tools, and others will make trucking way more efficient and safer.

article thumbnail

Top Ecommerce Trends for 2024

Ship Monk

ShipMonk nurtures relationships and facilitates integrations with shipping companies, as well as providers of third-party tools and systems that enable ecommerce businesses to thrive. If your ecommerce brand hasn’t explored other sales channels, you are definitely missing out.

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (September 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

It is definitely a bittersweet time of year. to expand monkeypox vaccine, drug distribution. Instacart says the new technology will give more retailers access to tools and technologies that can lead to business growth. That means a quiet house during the week and weekends spent on the athletic fields. Instacart acquires Rosie.