Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

When Covid triggered the e-commerce frenzy, many grocery retail logistics operations had little choice but to rethink their order picking methodologies and, as a result there is a trend away from traditional zone picking towards wave picking B to C strategies, says John Maguire, managing director of Narrow Aisle Ltd.

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TransAudit

MARCH 15, 2023

If your business relies on trucking, then you’ll want to know the current state of the industry. Most industry experts paint early 2023 as a bit of a rough period for the trucking industry. Industry projections suggest that this trend will continue for at least a few more months. in December and $2.37

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 3, 2022

Due to the industry standard 4.0, Industry 4.0 The solution is versatile and takes over monotonous, weighty set-up and placement tasks, for example. For a customer in the textile industry, the AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) is used for the automated loading of coil creels.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 28, 2021

Found this image and found really interesting how new innovations are getting part of the logistic industry. Working along, the industry finds ways to work easier and measure better their performance. For example: price prediction and demand forecasting. Let’s talk about the TOP 5 trends.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Is order picking always the same? Hardly any other field of activity in intralogistics is as diverse as goods picking. STILL – one of the leading suppliers of intralogistics solutions and a successful market player for more than 100 years – says it can provide the right order picking vehicle for any customer requirement.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 10, 2020

But, picking the third party logistics specialist that will be right for your business can be a daunting process. For example, at Walker Logistics we can offer online retailers next-day delivery services, with late cut-off times, even dispatching on a Sunday with guaranteed Monday delivery.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

The timber industry utilises a range of different systems for handling long, heavy and bulky goods. In a new white paper entitled ‘Order picking in the timber industry’, Hubtex provides an overview of the most important order-picking systems as well as outlining their advantages and disadvantages.

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Trinity Logistics

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The food and beverage industry has faced significant challenges and growth over the past couple of years. After yet another unpredictable and unstable year, many hope 2022 will bring more stability back to the industry. In this blog, we’re going to dive into some of the latest trends in the food and beverage industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Myth #1 – Robots are well-suited for all picking styles Today there are AMR’s that can handle almost all styles of picking. Using AMRs as take-away or transport systems will eliminate some worker travel, but warehouses will still need to optimize pick rates and minimize worker travel within picking areas.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 15, 2022

Specifically, Honeywell sees six trends emerging in the warehouse and DC industries. Moving into the second half of 2022, we’re seeing heightened interest in long-proven warehouse automation systems that pick, pack, sort and carry packages throughout the facility. Increasingly aggressive adoption of proven automation technologies.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 17, 2019

Note: Today’s post is part of our “ Editor’s Pick ” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide practical knowledge and advice on timely and important supply chain and logistics topics. Here are the main points. Digital Transformation Drives Effective Organizational Change.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 27, 2024

So whether you’re a current client or prospective one searching for a 3PL partner , we’re outlining the importance of the top time-saving automation in the ecommerce industry and how it helps you flourish. ShipMonk’s 3PL software , for example, is time-saving automation at its finest.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 9, 2024

The new solution, which previewed at LogiMAT 2024, is designed to help dynamic warehouse and intralogistics operations optimise order picking efficiency, while helping to reduce costs for applications which also need to load and unload lorries. With this new Yale solution, orders can be picked and then driven directly onto a lorry.

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Now, That's Logistics

JULY 21, 2022

For example, DB Schenker employees can replenish a shipment’s dry ice, apply thermal blankets to the cargo, apply ULD thermal covers on the shipments, load active containers or otherwise provide an additional layer of protection (i.e., These flights feature industry leading, short tarmac times in both Indianapolis and Luxembourg.

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Envase Technologies

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Sarah cares a great deal about the industry, especially about solving the challenges that drivers face every day on the road. They have to handle every aspect of their businesses, from driving the trucks to picking out the loads to all the financial management. Envase Mobile Driver App allows drivers to get more done daily.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 22, 2024

The detentions have occurred across a variety of industries. But electronics; industrial and manufactured; and apparel, footwear, and textiles make up the bulk of products detained. Or they can order online and pick up the product at the store. Of these, 2,583 were denied entry into the US. But there is a cost to this.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

Additional connecting elements with internal clamping improve the frictional connection and provide more useful space, for example for supermarket shelves or material trolleys. The free MTpro planning software speeds up engineering, for example with quickly adaptable models.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2023

A worker stages the robot in front of container doors, and it autonomously moves forward into the container under its own power and direction as it picks boxes, up to 60 lbs from the face and more weight if picked from the top, and places them onto attached conveyor that transports the loads out of the container.

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Now, That's Logistics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

By optimizing workflows and order picking/packing accuracy; improving inventory management; and better utilizing human labor, technology is literally reshaping the logistics industry. This level of flexibility is imperative in the logistics industry, where providers need to be able to scale up and down on the dime.”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

Exhibitors from nearly every sector of the industry are coming to LogiMAT 2024 to present their latest products and solutions for ergonomically optimized intralogistics processes, healthy workplaces, and injury prevention. The intralogistics industry has not been spared the ravaging effects of demographic change and labor shortages.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

The beverage industry is undergoing a prolonged period of significant change that is making warehouse automation a highly attractive option for companies of all sizes across the sector, says Paul Freeman, Head of Logistics Solutions, Toyota Material Handling. Space constraints. Improved safety.

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Trinity Logistics

AUGUST 13, 2021

Specifically, raw material and product shortages are affecting the chemical industry. With many other industries relying on the chemical industry, this is becoming a significant challenge to overcome. Shortages in the chemical industry have worsened over the last quarter. MATERIAL AND PRODUCT SHORTAGES.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The need for new omnichannel capabilities – particularly curb pick-up and ship-from-store – soared. Retailers’ understanding of these costs lags what has been achieved in other industries, or even that retailer’s understanding of their costs in their own upstream supply chain. There tend to be higher margins in this industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), for example, can perform many tasks in warehouse or distribution center settings (including moving pallets, product picking and fulfillment) that are typically viewed as repetitive or non value-added, thereby freeing the workforce to perform other activities and ultimately increasing productivity.

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ShipLilly

OCTOBER 14, 2021

China’s Yantian port in Shenzhen suspended pick-up and drop-off of containers as tropical cyclone Kompasu approached the nation’s southern coastline. The Pacific hurricane season can be deadly and disruptive to the industry. For example, when a port is shut down, flights are often cancelled as well.

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Stord

MARCH 13, 2024

For example, G.O.S.S. Industries International leverages Stord One Warehouse in its multiple locations, including a 125,000 sq. Industries. With thousands of users on the platform shipping hundreds of thousands of orders per day across dozens of facilities, Stord’s WMS has proven its scalability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 17, 2022

These are categorical technologies such as “assisted picking robots” or “robotic arms” rather than the technologies of specific technology providers. There are currently more than 1500 go-lives of technologies that passed through the productization phase into commercialization and industrialization. Autonomous Mobile Robots and AGVs.

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GoShip Blog

JULY 31, 2023

Shortage of truck drivers Truck drivers quite literally drive the supply chain for every industry. In full truckload (FTL) shipping , the entire trailer load belongs to a single customer; the truck is loaded up with the shipment and driven directly to the destination without any pick-ups or drop-offs.

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10xLogistics

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In a 1993 Harvard Business Review article (and subsequently in his book Double Digit Growth ) Micheal Treacy and his co-author Fred Wiersema argue that most companies have to pick one strategy they will really excel at and exploit it. It is not "bad" to be in a low cost industry. Let me use another example: The Kitchenaid Standmixer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2022

Across many of our industries, conventional wisdom about best practices for supply chain operations and logistical networks is being challenged. The percentage of purchases made and fulfilled through digital commerce has exploded in the past two years, advancing a pre-pandemic trend by as much as 10 years according to some industry watchers.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A slew of new digital technologies is disrupting supply chain operations, but none is having more of an impact on the industry than artificial intelligence (AI). This is particularly evident in e-commerce fulfillment centres, where urgent customer orders need to be fed into the high-velocity picking workflow.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

After the order situation was very poor in the 1st half of 2020 due to the Corona crisis, it picked up again strongly in the 2nd half of 2020, so that we were able to close the 2020 financial year with growth of just over 3% compared to the previous year. The industry is currently operating in a very difficult environment.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Driving up to the shelf, dismounting the truck, retrieving products from the shelf, loading them onto the goods carrier, climbing back onto the truck – and off to the next picking position: Manual picking is one of the most labour-intensive, piecemeal tasks in goods handling.

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Camelot 3PL Software

DECEMBER 6, 2023

These technologies can automate repetitive tasks such as picking, packing, and sorting, reducing manual labor and minimizing errors. Advanced Picking Methods Advanced picking methods like wave, batch, or zone picking can improve efficiency in the warehouse.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There are also many companies in the industry who have grown successfully and organically, that are still operating as they did when they were much smaller, simpler entities. and a growing online channel, was using RF scanners to pick orders both for store replenishment and direct fulfillment, through their legacy WMS.

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Blue Grace Logistics

APRIL 12, 2018

Disruptive technologies will often alter the form and function of an industry, at least to some degree. The changes brought about by these new disruptions are subtle, making the sector more efficient (production is a good example of this) but change little else. New Changes for the Trucking Industry .

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 23, 2024

Europa’s Air & Sea division, which has specialist teams both in the UAE (established in Dubai in 2022) and the UK, managed the cargo from point of pick up to point of delivery, for one of the UK’s leading hydraulics manufacturers. The AN-124 is capable of carrying up 120 tonnes at take-off.

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