Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

CKF Systems utilises ABB high speed robots to help customer perfectly pick and pack snack product. The system is helping them to produce, pack and distribute a steady supply of their product to the UK’s supermarkets. This posed a tough challenge for CKF’s team. Continuous production.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 22, 2023

KG and talks about ergonomics in logistics and the distribution centre. Those who can’t meet basic ergonomic requirements no longer have a chance to present themselves on the market as an attractive employer”, Johannes Schweiger says. How, for example, must future user interfaces or tools be designed? Those days are over. “We

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 14, 2024

Brightpick, Brightpick Autopicker – Start-up of the Year The IFOY Spin-off Award “Start-up of the Year” goes to Brightpick for the autonomous, mobile picking robot Brightpick Autopicker. The Autopicker from Brightpick, a start-up founded in Bratislava in 2021, is the world’s first autonomous mobile picking robot.

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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. Companies must also offer a healthy workplace which listens to their workforce and offers modern tools that keep workers happy in addition to being productive. These traits all present great opportunities to automate.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 17, 2023

Cognex will present machine vision-based solutions for automation in inbound, order fulfilment, sortation, and outbound areas at LogiMAT, the international trade fair for intralogistics solutions and process management, in Stuttgart, Germany, April 25-27th, 2023, at booth J11 in Hall 1.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 15, 2021

When it comes to remote implementations, you can’t find a more inspirational story than the one presented by Lori Jackson, senior vice president of operations at ForHIMS. They stood up a fully functioning ecommerce distribution center in 90 days. ForHIMS is a personal wellness startup that sells through the ecommerce channel.

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Conger

MARCH 22, 2024

Boosting Operational Efficiency AGVs excel in efficiency, outperforming even the most experienced workers by autonomously transporting materials across distribution centers or delivering parts directly to manufacturing assembly lines. This evaluation helps you choose an AGV system that meets your operational demands.

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Conger

MARCH 22, 2024

Boosting Operational Efficiency AGVs excel in efficiency, outperforming even the most experienced workers by autonomously transporting materials across distribution centers or delivering parts directly to manufacturing assembly lines. This evaluation helps you choose an AGV system that meets your operational demands.

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LandLink

MARCH 20, 2019

Warehouses and distribution centers around the world are coping with massive change and investment to stay competitive. WMS vendors are focusing on their user interfaces and coming up with ways to present data in a more logical format to users. Technology is the driving force in the warehouse and DC transformation.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 14, 2024

The new racking scheme not only meets the company’s present requirements, but it has been designed to be compatible with any significant changes in the nature of the goods stored at the facility without the need to make potentially costly and time-consuming remedial work.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 9, 2018

One of the things that struck me is that while the implementations we’re seeing are small, it feels as if the market for mobile collaborative robotics is at a tipping point in materials handling, and it feels as if the adoption rate, poised to become in the next three to five years just another tool in the tool kit.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Edward Napier-Fenning, Sales & Marketing Director of leading supply chain software company Balloon , explores five key areas that can boost performance – including route planning, picking, labour management reporting and data entry. Quite suddenly, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

A worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction, Saint-Gobain is present in 72 countries with more than 167,000 employees. Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures, and distributes materials and solutions for the construction, mobility, healthcare and other industrial application markets. million kilometers of highway.

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Locus

JUNE 2, 2023

Inbound logistics refers to the activities involved in receiving, storing, and distributing raw materials, components, and other inputs needed for production or further processing within a company. Outbound logistics activities include order processing, packaging, storage, transportation, distribution channel management, and customer support.

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20Cube Logistics

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Supply chain logistics is an industry in itself and at present a booming one. As soon as an order is placed for an inventory, the next steps involve picking, packing and sending it for delivery. Today with technology, many tools are available in the market that work well. Distribution. Let’s see how it can be done.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 8, 2019

Statistic: A mere 10% of distribution centres exclusively handle pallets, while 66% handle a mixture of pallets, cases, split cases, and pieces. . Source : Logistics Management 2018 Distribution Center Survey. . Trend #2: Distribution Nodes Moving Closer to Customers. Trend #1: Warehouses are Getting Smarter. What is a WCS?

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2021

Naturally, overall cost-to-serve will be higher for online than in-store sales due to the added expense involved in picking, packing, and delivering customers’ purchases. The above examples reflect costs that include picking, packing, and last-mile delivery. Those expenses can increase the cost to serve by a considerable amount.

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3PL Insights

JUNE 15, 2020

This physical exchange presents enormous challenges for the industry in a post-COVID environment. But now manufacturing overseas presents risks to companies; many of which are sure to have a severe impact to the bottom line. If the pandemic taught us anything it’s that data is the most valuable tool in society. Nearshoring.

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Logistics Manager

DECEMBER 18, 2018

We spoke with Mr. Brett Turner, Vice President Supply Chain Management at DKSH (Thailand) to learn more about the strategy behind FMCG transportation and distribution in the ASEAN region and he also shared with us his vision focusing on future development of Thailand through this business. Regular audits show our success in this area.”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 27, 2023

As a market-leading partner for quality tools, the company supplies over 135,000 customers worldwide. 120,000 different catalogue items, 80 packing stations and up to 40,000 packages per day ‒ the LogisticCity presents complex demands on a packaging solution. “Packing is now much more versatile than before,” says Scholz.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 9, 2022

The Cooperative Logistics Network – an international alliance of more than 320 hand-picked freight forwarders – has launched its Online Logistics Academy.

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3PL Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Robots move on their own throughout a warehouse, maneuvering around obstacles—they stop for human workers, pick up crates, and move them from one location to the next, moving through a packing system that may see very human hands. These robots fulfill the picking and packing at Amazon warehouses, continuing to refine Amazon’s process.

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WorkWave

AUGUST 24, 2020

Typical duties of an analyst include collecting and interpreting data, developing ways to improve workplace results, examining company and client needs, finding new ways to organize inventory, implementing a logistics and distribution software solution , or even completely changing the way operations are managed.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

Consequently, companies are looking for tools to mitigate uncertainty and assist in contingency planning. An analytical dashboard is also required to present results. Mature logistics operations are highly automated. As a result, users can improve service while lowering operating and capital expenditure.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

For companies wishing to decouple their supply chains from China but struggling to do so, the current situation presents an unsettling start to 2023. To address the problem, software provider Tecsys claims to offer the perfect solution to the challenge of mixed ecommerce and conventional distribution facilities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

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. Unplanned replenishment of the picking area from overstock costs time and should be avoided.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 14, 2018

Affected by changes in production, procurement and distribution methods, warehousing has continually been pushed and pulled in different directions. Logistics services provider TNT runs a large distribution hub in Belgium. From a simple place to stock goods, warehouses have developed in many ways—function and form included.

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InstaVans

JUNE 27, 2017

Within goods distribution, labour and rent costs are more rigidly structured, while transportation costs make up the majority of spends for distribution, while also offering the most flexibility in costing. Can we schedule two pick-ups within the same location? Less time spent talking. These are only the most basic of questions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Even before the emergence of COVID-19, next-day and same-day delivery promises from mega retailers, as well as new delivery models such as store pick-up, were driving increasing customer expectations — not just in retail, but in every industry. 1] Now that same concept is poised to similarly disrupt the world of distribution.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Based on a couple of presentations I attended as well as conversations over meals, here are a couple of takeaways: They’re related, and not separate technologies. An example is the way the Kindred robot learns to pick an item – in the best case scenario. And that’s machine learning. Robots aren’t science fiction; they’re here and now.

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Conger

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Here’s a simple order picker definition: Order pickers are material handling equipment used to pick and transport items from shelving or pallet racking to help fill orders in warehouses and distribution centers. Other order picker names include cherry pickers, stock pickers, order selectors, and warehouse selectors.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

After an extensive consultation and planning phase, STILL implemented a perfectly coordinated combination of six automated series industrial trucks (three MX-X order picking stacker trucks and three EXV high lift pallet trucks) at Danfoss, including all system components. AGVs are not allowed to enter aisles where picking is taking place.

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Locus

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

However, managing both captive (in-house) and outsourced fleets while maintaining optimal performance in logistics operations presents a unique challenge – the need for effective hybrid fleet management. By adopting these tools, businesses gain the ability to seamlessly monitor and manage their entire fleet ecosystem.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

The availability and integration of computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming what was previously just an ‘observation’ tool into something that can deliver real business operational advantages. “In The importance of picking and shipping the right product to the right customer is a given. But mistakes happen.

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Bringg

OCTOBER 7, 2020

To truly help manage delivery operations end-to-end, businesses should explore tools that improve efficiency and the customer experience across the entire supply chain. Dispatch management is the core piece of any on-demand delivery solution, providing operational teams with an interface for scheduling driver pick-ups and deliveries.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 21, 2020

To remedy this, Linde Material Handling is presenting the Secure Distance Vest and the flexibly usable Distance Beeper to provide auditory, visual and haptic warnings if employees come too close to each other – thus allowing the ability to freely work with maximum protection against infection.

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Conger

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This can help you boost inventory visibility, reduce picking times, and improve your overall efficiency. Aisle layouts must give enough space to allow workers and equipment to move quickly and safely between picking aisles. This can include picking equipment, forklifts , or even manufacturing machines. Warehousing/distribution?

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