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13 Warehouse Types: Definitions, Functions & Examples

Conger

Plenty of examples of warehousing. The United States Federal government leases or owns 90 million square feet of warehousing space across 19,000 buildings. This accounts for 15% of the total warehousing industry in the US. Federal government uses up 15% of all warehousing space in the country. Their pros and cons.

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What Is Cross-Docking?

FW Logsitcs

Dive into the concept of cross-docking, its key components, and how it differs from traditional warehousing methods. Cross-docking optimizes supply chain efficiency by eliminating the need for warehousing inventory. In traditional warehousing, inventory sits in storage for extended periods waiting to be used to fill orders.

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3PL Warehousing 101

Kanban Logistics

While you can build and staff your own warehouse and perform these services yourself, more and more companies see the value in handing warehousing operations off to a third-party logistics (3PL) provider. In this article, we’ll examine all that 3PL warehousing entails, while helping you find a 3PL partner that’s right for your business.

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Volvo Cars: Outbound evolutions

Automotive Logistics

For example, the global shape of the Geely-owned carmaker’s expanding production footprint can be seen from the vehicles stored at the yard. This has been implemented across global outbound and inbound logistics, including for China and the US. For outbound, I don’t think we need to see where every car is all of the time.

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Automated Hand-Scanning Upgrade

Logistics Business Magazine

The automation of hand scanning processes increases productivity at inbound and outbound areas of logistics hubs dramatically. Hand-held barcode readers are still widely used to ensure the traceability of goods and packages, for example in retail, warehousing and parcel sorting operations.

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Kimberly-Clark’s Digital Transformation of Shipping

Logistics Viewpoints

With the visibility solution, the company is able to develop a plan for warehouse labor that insures when a load comes in, that workers are ready to unload the truck, or when an outbound truck is scheduled at a dock, the pallets are staged and ready to be loaded. This used to be a paper-based process.

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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

Steve: Klaus, when we talked, you mentioned Autoliv was already doing digital supplier management, had digital sourcing solutions, and was looking at real-time transportation visibility solutions to provide better predicted times of arrival for inbound and outbound shipments. Klaus: I can´t give too many details for compliance reasons.