Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2021

Preliminary results from a Lucas-commissioned survey of 350 companies in the US and UK found that the majority of the companies are already employing AI in one way or another within their warehouses and distribution/fulfillment centers. Distribution Centers Are Fertile Grounds For Machine Learning. Here are two examples.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2022

At one point in my career, I did some work in a large distribution center in Southern California. For example, related to warehouse technology, a recent Lucas Systems industry study found 89% of respondents agreed that implementing artificial intelligence-based software within distribution centers can provide a competitive advantage.

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Now, That's Logistics

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Busy places where employees are constantly in motion, picking and packing shipments, driving forklifts, and interacting with one another, warehouses and distribution centers must take special care to ensure that their employees, business partners, and customers stay healthy and safe. The latter group of deskless workers accounts for 8.4

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2022

As of 31st January 2022, the rail logistics company, which is part of the Mercitalia Group (Gruppo FS Italiane), will add a further connection between Trelleborg and Eskilstuna, around 100km west of Stockholm, to its network. The new block train will be operated as a company train for the Austrian full truckload specialist LKW Walter.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The HAHN Group MOBILE.EXPO is picking up speed and presenting its technologies and products with its innovative exhibition and trade fair concept at 13 locations in Europe. The HAHN Group started its MOBILE.EXPO in Europe on 20th September. Interested participants can register for MOBILE.EXPO on the HAHN Group website.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Develop data driven, impactful driver training. Hear examples of how a data driven approach to safety will prevent incidents and proactively keep drivers and other road users safe. Motormax works with many of the UK’s largest fleets including Saint-Gobain, Kier Highways, M Group Services and Ringway Jacobs.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

When it comes to manufacturing high-quality fashion, Walbusch Group relies on Polymax Group, among others. Three stories, large windows, white facade: From the outside, the Polymax Group factory in the Chinese coastal city of Ningbo could also be located somewhere in Germany. He feels at home in China.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The project for a smarter freight train is scheduled to run for 15 months. For example, the sensors monitor the condition of the braking system during the journey and record the mileage determining the exact location at any time.

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Now, That's Logistics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

“Once you understand that China shuts down nearly everything for CNY and nothing, absolutely nothing will get out of China during that time, the better you can plan,” the design, manufacturing and distribution firm advises. Receive the other 50% of that volume in February. 4-20, may create more supply chain bottlenecks over the coming months.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

Four big names from the transport and logistics sector have come together to supply an HGV driver training simulator for the Industrial Training Centre (ITC) in Zambia, which Transaid has partnered with since 2008 to help meet the country’s growing demand for professional driver training.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

To ensure that more truck drivers are back home in the evening, for example, the forwarding association Elvis wants to set up a meeting network for full truck loads. The best of the best also differentiate their recruitment strategy – for example, according to generations or potential groups such as newcomers or foreign workers.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

The Group’s Innovation Projects and Development Center (IPDC) and the Interroll Academy, which is responsible for internal and external training measures, are also based there. .” In recent years, Interroll has already successively invested around €20m in the Baal-Hückelhoven site.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

Dan Migliozzi, Head of Sales at independent systems integrator, Invar Group , considers the options. That way, processes can be better defined and understood, employees at all levels trained and other necessary capabilities – maintenance, for example – built up at a manageable pace. But might a stepped approach make more sense?

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 7, 2023

Generix Group, a global provider of collaborative SaaS Software solutions for the Supply Chain and commerce ecosystems, announces Resource Management System, its warehouse resource planning and optimization solution. How much would it cost, for example, considering new products, customers, etc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 25, 2022

These include corporate housing, in which a company needs temporary furnished apartments while relocating or training employees, as well as insurance companies tasked with providing and outfitting an entire home for displaced policyholders. For example, a truck might be scheduled to make three stops for customers A, B, and C, in that order.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 6, 2022

For example, in Cape Town, where minibus taxis are widely used, this took the form of a concise guide which outlined commuter rights, the responsibilities of transport associations, and included contact numbers for reporting complaints, particularly in relation to gender-based violence.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 13, 2023

For example, if we want to control the inventory, we would have three tables, one for the products (with all the information related to them), another for the stocks (with information about inputs and outputs about a determined product) and a third one in charge of relating a product with its stocks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

The result is often a peak sales volume for a specific group of items. This warehouse runs at a perfect optimum with fixed capital in the form of inventory balanced perfectly with sales and purchasing, and all the items perfectly distributed to the various storage areas of the warehouse. Everyone is familiar with such seasonal demands.

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Conger

MAY 24, 2023

Today, the company is a member of the Toyota Advanced Logistics Group. Bastian Solutions has implemented several remarkable projects, including an AutoStore grid with up to 305,000 bins at a Puma facility in California, and a significant AutoStore installation for the Dafiti Group in Brazil. Lee Partners.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s well recognised that the country is ‘under-warehoused’, especially given the rapid and permanent rise in eCommerce with its demands for increasingly sophisticated distribution facilities. They may have outsourced some of their distribution to a 3PL’s network. That poses a problem, especially in the UK.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Training Can Be Part of Workforce Development Strategies. The role of training in the factory remains a top factor for bridging the skills gap. Consequently, manufacturers should look at training as an opportunity to mold the next generation for skilled positions. Take the smartphone for example.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

the forklift truck manufacturer which is part of the KION Group, is currently present in 52 countries and pursues the ambitious goal of being successfully represented in 86 markets in the EMEA economic area in the coming years. Q: How important is it for you that Baoli is part of the KION Group? Baoli EMEA S.p.A. , MV: Very important!

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WorkWave

JUNE 6, 2024

For example, the BLS notes that the job openings rate has been volatile , with some states experiencing significant changes in hiring rates. Team Incentives Team incentives are rewards or bonuses offered to groups of employees based on collective achievements or performance within an organization.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Jim Shephard, president, Shephard’s Industrial Training Systems. ? Al Will, president of PWG Distribution Solutions. In recent years, firms both large and small have launched new “Data Science” or similarly named groups. For example, the NIST demonstration shows an assembly operation.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

In this article, written by Markus Kammerhofer, Director Sales Retro, TGW Logistics Group , we look at the most important factors for a successful retrofit intralogistics project. For another, knowledge is lost over the years when, for example, the IT experts who still know how to work with the programming languages C and C++ retire.

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Globalior

APRIL 20, 2021

Examples are gravity shelving that implements a FIFO strategy and push-back pallet shelving that works well for the LIFO method. Always take into account the volume of orders when distributing items on the shelves. Invest operator training. Modern warehouse logistics can count on a wide range of possibilities to improve picking.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The pharmaceutical retail, wholesale and distribution sector is ‘in play’, as they say on the markets, writes Leigh Anderson (pictured), Managing Director at Bis Henderson Recruitment. But this comes on top of more fundamental changes that have been triggered or accelerated by the Covid pandemic.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2019

Within the carmaker’s production halls, tugger trains or smart transport robots (STR) are increasingly used to transport parts, with 30 STRs set to be in operation this year. We also had a proof of technology for high-voltage batteries, where we had to give an example of how to move them around corners,” added Maidl. “We

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Demand for rail transport is growing faster than service providers can keep up with, according to Siegfried Jung, head of planning and steering vehicle dispatch and transport at BMW Group. Jung adds that the decreasing availability of train drivers is also a factor, contributing to what he terms a “major bottleneck” in rail transport.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The third element of the Bis Henderson Group, Bis Henderson Recruitment, will continue to operate under its existing, well-respected and long-established name and will now become an independent company. The Bis Henderson Group name will no longer be used. By way of example, it supports 6 out of 10 top UK grocers.

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WorkWave

JUNE 1, 2023

For example, you can create mailers with your truck driving company’s information and send them out to those within the age group you’re looking for in your community. Offer CDL Training To be a truck driver, someone has to obtain a commercial driver’s license (CDL).

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Conger

MAY 24, 2023

Examples of manufacturers that can use automatic replenishment are electronic manufacturers, automotive, pharmaceuticals, textiles, and more. Examples of retailers that use automatic replenishment are Walmart, Dollar Tree, Target, Costco, and Tesco. For example, reordering may require permission to be activated.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2022

While reflecting on some of the ways the industry sought to overcome these challenges, Chris Jones*, Executive Vice President, Industry & Services at Descartes Systems Group , takes a look at what to look out for in 2022. Global supply chains will be busy, congested, and chaotic.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Additional cross-industry customers such as Pirelli Tyres, the Princes Group, Computacenter, Woolworth, Northern Foods, and Cepac followed soon. “We TJ Morris distributes a wide range of food, household goods, and general merchandise products. The Witron group is continuously growing. Case and piece picking solutions.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Two years ago, as CEO of Diamond Logistics , I was invited to participate in an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) alongside other representatives from logistics and transport to discuss the driver shortage, set to worsen as Brexit loomed. Catching-up on driver training. Celery for example will be in very short supply next year.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 22, 2018

Over 980 French train stations to have Amazon Lockers installed (Global Railway Review). Kenco Group (a Talking Logistics sponsor) is a great example. The site’s digital ecosystem will integrate predictive data and intelligent machines to deliver one of the most advanced distribution management centers in the world.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 1, 2019

Training on food safety and quality (here, in Kenya) is a crucial element of school feeding programmes. Further north in Algeria, in the Sahrawi refugee camps, WFP works with partners to relieve short-term hunger by distributing a mid-morning snack in schools and kindergartens.

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