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Logistics Technologies: 4 Benefits of RFID, AIDC, and IoT Based Technologies to Shippers

GlobalTranz

The supply chain is playing host to emerging logistics technologies and modern marvels of an industrialized society. After all, how can an organization report decreased emissions in factories and fleets if the organization does not even know how many miles were driven. That's only half the story.

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Testing times

Automotive Logistics

What has been an even more immediate challenge from a logistics point of view is the stress on production and distribution, including longer lead times resulting from the introduction of the new tests, and the need to find additional storage space for vehicles awaiting certification.

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Disaster recovery: Prepared for the worst?

Automotive Logistics

Probing more deeply, the company discovered several more instances of supply chains terminating in that region – in some cases, at factories that were the sole source of the components and materials in question. Altogether, output was suspended at seven of the company’s 22 plants. ” – Richard Wilding, Cranfield University.