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SAP Goes All-In on Artificial Intelligence

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The RISE with SAP offering includes an AI-powered cloud ERP that’s managed and optimized by SAP. When SAP refers to AI, it refers to generative AI based on large language models or AI based on machine learning. I might tell Alexa, for example, “Play the station Smooth Jazz!” This is a public Cloud solution.

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Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap

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Many companies are achieving this transformation by adopting modular, elastic DC technologies – including AI and robotics – that provide continuous warehouse optimization without replacing their current monolithic and static warehouse systems. Those systems and processes were designed to serve the current business model for 10 years or more.

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Supply Chain Design: A Tool to Help Maximize Value

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If you have been through this process at least once, you already have a good idea of what supply chain design is about: optimization. When most people hear the word “optimization,” they immediately think about minimizing costs. But optimization is much more than that! Let’s continue with this analogy.

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Supply Chain Optimization: Everything You Need to Know

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Supply chain optimization ensures a smoother process and a more successful business model focusing on efficiency and profit. What is supply chain optimization? . Optimizing this process allows it to function at peak efficiency. A good example of such a strategic decision could be choosing a warehouse’s location.

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Lateral Transport with Space-saving Potential

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HUBTEX is expanding its MaxX series with a new model – the MaxX 60 electric multidirectional sideloader. The model is designed for handling long goods with a load capacity between 5 and 6 t both indoors and outdoors. When developing the new model, HUBTEX focused on optimising outdoor performance.

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What are Digital Twins and How Can They Drive Warehouse Efficiency?

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How the digital twin concept drives benefit By using advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms, digital twins can provide real-time insights and recommendations to optimize operations, reduce costs, and increase productivity. Physical change (i.e., changing the structure of the warehouse, modifying processes, etc.)

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Volvo Trucks Launches New Generation of Heavy-duty Trucks with the Driver in Focus

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Volvo Trucks is introducing four new trucks, with a strong focus on the driver environment, safety and productivity. In Europe, for example, estimates show that around 20 percent of all driver jobs are vacant. The four heavy-duty trucks; Volvo FH, FH16, FM and FMX, represent about two thirds of Volvo Trucks’ deliveries.