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New England Motor Freight workers settle with company

Fleet Owner

Agreement avoids class-action lawsuit; severance boosted 20 percent

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Key Factors to Consider When Planning and Designing Warehouses

Logistics Bureau

Planning a Warehouse Network and Design: Key Factors to Consider. In this post, I’d like to talk about the key factors that will impact on the optimum facility network and design required to meet your warehousing or storage requirements. Since I first published this article back in 2009, warehouse design principles haven’t altered that much, but as we received many comments, including requests for more information, I figured it might be a good idea to expand on the original piece.

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Warehousing News Roundup: March 4, 2019

Stord

Walmart’s new, high-tech consolidation center will improve inventory flow. The new facility will open in California this summer , and will combine less than truckload shipments from small suppliers into full truckloads for distribution centers and stores. This way, Walmart can make sure that its other facilities don’t get shipments from half-empty trucks, with the end goals of improving efficiency and getting items to customers more quickly.

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Provide Ritz-Carlton Service to Your Customers - It is Mostly Free

10xLogistics

I had such a great experience this weekend I had to, as always, relate it back to customer value chain fulfillment. We decided to spend the weekend at a beautiful resort owned by the Ritz-Carlton company and it was fabulous. So, how does this relate to order fulfillment - the business all logisticians are truly engaged in? It is called service. Many of you may be saying "well of course it was a great time because it cost a lot and you were in a beautiful setting".

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Artificial Intelligence and the Transportation Industry

Artificial intelligence has quickly become a feature of everyday life: Using face ID to unlock a phone, communicating with online chatbots, and letting “smart” appliances help manage our homes are just a few of the ways that we interact with AI regularly. Forward-looking businesses are also using AI to transform their operations and gain a competitive edge.

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HARTING MICA Demo: How to retrofit old machines for IIoT

IoT World Today

See an example of how you can connect old machines to the IIoT using the HARTING MICA®. The HARTING MICA® allows an easy way to connect to a wide range of “Things” in the Industrial Internet of Things: machine tools, manufacturing processes, RFID readers, sensors, smart infrastructure, and much more.

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