Now, That's Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When e-commerce orders picked up during the early stages of the global pandemic, demand for trucking skyrocketed right at a time when COVID-19 shutdowns and a preexisting driver shortage were already impacting available capacity and rates. The post Land Transport Outlook for the Year Ahead appeared first on DB Schenker.

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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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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

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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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 Business Magazine

MAY 8, 2020

One of the biggest challenges faced by successful e-commerce operations stepping up to their first fulfilment centre will be minimising pick errors. Edward Hutchison, Managing Director of BITO Storage Systems, highlights four key areas where picking mistakes are commonly generated. Long journeys between picks.

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MTS Logistics

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A white glove transportation service is the top-rated transportation service with the best customer service. And, not unlike fine dining or valet parking, white glove transportation services are premium services, provided at an extra cost, that ensure that a product or item gets the care that it needs while being delivered.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The need for new omnichannel capabilities – particularly curb pick-up and ship-from-store – soared. In general, retailers can model the transportation costs associated with an omni-order. One example of the detailed costing this is used in warehouse fulfillment, but not in store fulfillment, involves engineered labor studies.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 17, 2022

High priced diesel fuel impacts the total cost of transportation through fuel surcharges. How to help manage overall transportation costs. Add that to an already volatile, over-burdened freight market and these steeply rising prices are greatly impacting fuel surcharges, total cost of transportation, and logistics budgets overall.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 7, 2019

Last year many shippers were caught flat-footed by rising transportation costs and capacity constraints. It’s safe to say that in 2019 shippers will likely be more vigilant and more proactive in looking for opportunities to better manage and control their transportation costs. Transportation spend at the C-level.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 31, 2023

A number of unification examples and their benefits were provided. Beyond just estimating cartons and pallets for transport planning purposes, the load builder will also provide a comprehensive visualization of the optimal trailer layout factoring in considerations such as stop sequencing, stackability, and axel weight balancing.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

Transport requirements vary significantly according to whether the client is a manufacturer, distributor or processing company. 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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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The US Bureau of Labor statistics reported over 500,000 job openings in warehousing and transportation in August of 2022 alone. Voice technology also can be used in many warehouse and industrial processes such as picking and replenishment.

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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. Does it offer the range of services – warehousing, packaging, transportation and re-work – you are looking for? A 3PLpartner allows internet retailers to devote time to what matters most.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Transportation Management Solutions (TMS). By integrating AI technology, new platforms are enabling companies to streamline their transportation systems and cut the costs of freight. 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 Bureau

MARCH 22, 2021

Let’s start with an uncomplicated example: Company A is in the business of distributing whiteboard markers. If they are going to understand their cost to serve, they need to know the cost of shipping, for example, the green one to a customer. How does the product go through the warehouse: receiving, storage, picking, and dispatch?

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ShipLilly

JUNE 27, 2020

This left little transportation options for agricultural products. It was this sense of impending doom and the urgency associated with it that inspired a new form of experimentation with transport on the oceans. World War II heralded a significant increase in demand for transportation on the seas.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

The spectrum ranges from modular workstation designs and systems to hoists not yet exhibited anywhere in the world, software-driven language-based picking processes with smart glasses, and new accessories and assistance systems for forklift operators.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2022

The pursuit of ever higher efficiency and speed have dominated transformation initiatives for more than forty years, driven in large part by the assumption that raw materials, commodities, warehouse space, transportation capacity and labor will be plentiful and immediately available at stable and often declining cost.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 19, 2023

For example, as a picker is moving through the warehouse, their scan gun will read, “go to location XB312 and pick three cases!” Automatic identification (AutoID) solutions – like scan guns or Voice Systems – is what allows a WMS to ensure the right product is picked from the right location. A WMS tells workers what to do.

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Trinity Logistics

MAY 22, 2023

For example, let’s say you have an imported container coming into the U.S. As your third-party logistics (3PL) provider, we help you arrange the move of that container to be picked up by a drayage carrier at the terminal and transported to its destination or receiver. For example, let’s say you have three free days.

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EazyStock

MAY 20, 2022

The right technologies can increase efficiency by improving stock control and pick accuracy, warehouse flexibility, responsiveness, and safety and security. Automated picking systems. Picking items for orders is one of the most time-consuming warehouse activities. Voice picking. Mobile scanner-based picking.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 15, 2024

In total, around 300 individual components (production lines, systems and machines) were transported, dismantled and reassembled/installed. For example, conveyor belt systems with motors and sensors have already been pre-assembled in medium-sized quantities of up to 500 units per project.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 31, 2018

Every transportation firm sees the utility of having a transportation management plan. It is essential in organizing activities in the transportation industry effectively and efficiently. The challenges that the transportation industry faces are enormous. The Freight & Transportation Management Trends to Know in 2018.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

There is no zero-touch fulfilment without robotic picking. KNAPP’s Pick-it-Easy Robot (pictured) will pack and pick diverse items into different containers in a live demonstration. The intelligent KiSoft software suite functions as the brain of Pick-it-Easy Robot. It’s quite an impressive interplay of robots and software.

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Trinity Logistics

MAY 22, 2023

For example, let’s say you have an imported container coming into the U.S. As your third-party logistics (3PL) provider, we help you arrange the move of that container to be picked up by a drayage carrier at the terminal and transported to its destination or receiver. For example, let’s say you have three free days.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Robotic solutions for automated storage and retrieval, as well as order picking, provide the secret to successfully hitting seasonal peaks – and can give a competitive edge at this crucial time of trading, writes Stefan Pieters, CEO of Movu Robotics. Pallet and bin shuttle systems for automated storage and retrieval are a prime example.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We need sustainability in land use and water management, in transport capacity, in the reduction of waste in all its forms, in enabling the goods and packages we handle themselves to be more sustainable. Consider, for example, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS) in all their variety.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As we move cautiously into a still fluid business environment, one thing remains certain: goods need to be picked in warehouses, with the prime consideration of staff health, who must be kept separate – and productive. Take for example live storage flow racks. They can take over transport journeys from staff, allowing them to.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2024

Without the need for lift truck aisles, the atlas system maximises storage capacity on a given footprint, while also removing manual handling, helping to reduce both personnel risk and picking errors. The operation Trucks bring in and pick up goods 24-hours a day via the facility’s covered loading docks.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

For example, Cimcorp’s intralogistics solution has revolutionized the order-fulfillment process of the Spanish supermarket giant, Mercadona, enabling the delivery of fresh and seasonal produce to stores within 24 hours. For example, Cimcorp has helped Mercadona to match automation and RPCs for excellent results.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2021

Features are specific functionality sets such as “picking.” Subsequently, a couple features were selected – the Autonomous Mobile Robot Fleet Supervisor to control multiple robots in the solution and the Transport Mission Manager to orchestrate the transportation requests and conformations with user assistance devices.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 22, 2023

Youibot’s Automatic Trolley warehouse fulfillment solution utilises its brand-new assistance picking robot AT100 AMR and its robot fleet management system YOUIFleet to integrate with retailers’ and 3PL’s existing infrastructures and workflow and help them meet their increasing fulfillment demand, while ensuring a low ROI.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 16, 2022

It is these changing constraints, transportation capacity, and bottlenecks across an entire ecosystem that matters. They have a complex network of suppliers, internal assets, and transportation and manufacturing partners, many of whom are changing on an ongoing basis. The lack of predictability leads to higher costs and worse service.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A number of mobile robotics solutions serve as an alternative to more traditional heavy load transporters such as manual fork lifts, tuggers, and AGVs. Autonomous mobile robotics (AMR) are being applied to man-to-goods item picking operations. These are just a few examples of the application of mobile robotics to warehouse operations.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 22, 2020

And the recipients have to collect their goods at pick-up stations or shops themselves more often. TSCs compact desktop printers, such as TDP-244 or TDP-247 series, can be used at providers and pick-up stations, even in confined spaces. In short, routes are becoming troublesome and therefore uneconomic.

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MTS Logistics

AUGUST 2, 2021

According to a letter from the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce sent to the Surface Transportation Board “one of five Class I railroads is currently reporting 1,600 boxes on the ground in Memphis and equipment shortages exceeding 600 chassis.” For example, if the container grounded on Friday at 18:00, LFD will be Sunday.

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