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A Better Way to Think About Integrated Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

Definitions of agility, resilience, visibility, and end-to-end collaboration are all very much tied together. And agility is about reacting quickly and hopefully effectively to the actual disruptive event. But the event might not be disruptive at all if you had planned for it. Resilience is About Planning for Agility.

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FDA Registration for Fulfillment Centers

Ship Monk

Definitely not. The FDA ensures that goods have been handled with all necessary safety precautions to keep customers from getting sick or hurt. For example, if milk wasn’t FDA-certified you wouldn’t have verification that the cows producing it are healthy. Exaggeration? What is the FDA?

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Emerging Trends in Automation: What it Means to Supply Chains

GlobalTranz

This example generates a huge amount of data that can leverage in the supply chain. While this example may still be a few years off, it is important that you understand how the top emerging trends in automation will shape supply chains and transportation processes in the coming years. The truck never stops until arriving for reloading.

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Customer remains focal point for the future of intralogistics

Logistics Business Magazine

In the run-up to the recent LogiMAT event, Bernard Biolchini ( pictured ), Executive Vice President EMEA at Dematic , one of the world’s leading manufacturers of integrated automation technology , software and services for supply chain optimization, spoke about the new era. Q: Can you give some specific examples?

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How to Reduce Ecommerce Returns

Ship Monk

Either way, you have to act fast because that return (and how it’s handled) can minimize your chance of getting that customer’s business again. The optimal way to handle them is having a strong 3PL partnership. They got what they paid for; no mystery or misleading turn of events.

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Executive guide to ERP Part 6: The operation stage

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Degradation occurs when a balanced status of systems, business processes and people organization is disturbed by some event and then over time the unused potential degrades to a new level where all three dimensions are in balance again. Another example is where a major customer suddenly demands a change in the way its orders are handled.

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“The focal point of intralogistics remains the customer”

Logistics Business Magazine

Having in-depth conversations was an obvious outcome of the events of the last two or so years, where many parameters have undergone fundamental changes where there is no going back. Q: Can you give some specific examples? Spatially constrained warehouses in urban environments, for example, rely on high scalability of picking systems.