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11 Common Maintenance Issues (And a Solution for Each!)

Conger

Ready to learn how to prevent downtime and save money in your operation? For example, you can automate many material handling tasks if you have trouble finding forklift operators. For example, you can try experimenting with schedules. The asset's useful life is how long it can continue to operate. Let's dive in!

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Gemba Process Innovation Can Drive Wave in Europe

Logistics Business Magazine

Examples of issues driving this change include those such as changing consumer buying habits, rising environmental and ethical awareness and societal issues such as an ageing population reducing the size of the available labour pool. Examples include the deployment of Panasonic’s Visual Sort Assist System (VSA).

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Supply chain trends to watch out for in 2023

Logistics Business Magazine

For example, a big-box retailer that started to build out its pickup services, it delivery services, and so on, so that when the world pivoted, and stores were closed, but people still wanted this retailer’s products, it already had all of that investment there. Disruption can become a catalyst for supplier collaboration.

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‘Digital Freight Matching’ Isn’t a Product— It’s a Strategic Methodology

Parade

As freight brokerages look to leverage technologies, automate grunt work, and streamline operations, we hear references such as “Buying ‘digital freight matching’.” This can result in deploying multiple digital freight matching methodologies for the different business fulfillment operations your freight brokerage may have.

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‘Digital Freight Matching’ Isn’t a Product— It’s a Strategic Methodology

Parade

As freight brokerages look to leverage technologies, automate grunt work, and streamline operations, we hear references such as “Buying ‘digital freight matching’.” This can result in deploying multiple digital freight matching methodologies for the different business fulfillment operations your freight brokerage may have.

Digital 60
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6 Supply Chain Trends That Could Truly Shake You Up (2018 Update)

Logistics Bureau

More and more transactions, operations and processes are conducted within IT servers and data centres. This has already dramatically transformed the IT industry itself, as packaged software sold with one-time licences has become cloud-based services sold with a renewable monthly subscription. State of Play in 2018.