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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. For example, RFID logistics technologies are being used to ensure proper asset tracking, asserts Motorola. In the global economy, the risk becomes even greater.

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Emergency response: Weathering the storms

Automotive Logistics

At Ford, for example, Bong points to the use of a sophisticated forecasting, monitoring and action tool that the company started using several years ago, which maps and monitors every node in the supply chain. “The The problem is that, whilst logistics chains have evolved, the insurance risk assessments sometimes lag behind.”.

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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

Renesas Electronics, for example, the world’s largest manufacturer of automotive microcontrollers, was forced to cut production by 70%, shifting from its badly damaged Naka wafer fabrication factory in the Japanese coastal city of Hitachinaka to a number of other sites around the company. “For

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Three Logistics Imperatives for Managing Uncertainty in 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

And, once again, it will be incumbent on logistics teams to deliver better, faster service, at a lower cost, to get products to market in the face of these continuing issues. As I write this in the fourth quarter of 2021, there’s just no telling what the new year will bring in terms of emerging logistics challenges.