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Opinion: pharma sector needs logistics skills

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The processes are analogous to, but with significant differences from, consumer eCommerce. The trend, already evident, is forever wider product ranges, in smaller volumes and with high demand volatility, with very short shelf lives, requiring differing temperature regimes, dealt with in part by increasing use of postponement strategies.

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Flexi highlights sustainability goals to distributors

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In addition an example of the new generation of automated picking robot technology that can help ecommerce operators increase productivity by up to 50% was presented to demonstrate the ease with which these Cobotic picking machines can interface with Flexi Trucks in a very narrow aisle storage system.

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Why FMCG Supply Chains are about Balance

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billion by 2026, largely due to the growing preference for eCommerce online distribution. These are generally higher for FMCG products, due to specific temperature and humidity requirements. For example, there’s no need for a truck to drive hundreds of empty miles to pick up a load when another may be unloading nearby.

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Trends 2021: Warehouse Automation

Logistics Business Magazine

Warehouse automation is the combination of mobility, physical automation along with technologies such as RFID and temperature sensing. Zebra’s warehouse vision study states that typically 50% of ecommerce warehouse employees are picking orders and that 40-70% of their time is spent moving between picking locations.

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Load carriers for the beverage industry

Logistics Business Magazine

They guarantee safe beverage handling in automated systems, when using forklift trucks, in high racks or when storing, for example, containers with concentrates in a refrigerated environment. The CR plastic pallet, for example, is one of Craemer’s successful load carriers used in the beverage industry around the world.

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Axfood  plans Gothenburg eCommerce DC

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In mid-July 2021, the Swedish food retailer Axfood awarded its logistics lifetime partner Witron Logistik + Informatik an order for the design, implementation, service, and system operation of a food eCommerce DC in Gothenburg, Sweden. In Gothenburg, for example, e-commerce orders and click+collect orders are consolidated in this way.

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Shuttles or Stackers?

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Movu Atlas shuttles, for example, can carry pallets of 1 m x 1 m, or 1 m x 1.2 Movu’s escala shuttles, for example, can work in full 3D, moving up and down ramps to access different storage layers – a bit like a multi-storey car park. appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine. m, weighing up to 1,500 kg.