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Volvo Cars: Outbound evolutions

Automotive Logistics

This has been implemented across global outbound and inbound logistics, including for China and the US. In outbound, the team’s ability to analyse and engineer logistics flows has been an important way to mitigate a growing shortage of trucks and drivers, helping to ensure the capacity Volvo needs to keep up with its vehicle launches.

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How Can CIOs Accelerate Supply Chain Transformation? Think Less Planning, More Real-Time Decision-Making

Logistics Viewpoints

If an inbound truckload is late by even a few hours, it could jeopardize an entire outbound load or halt production. He founded FourKites in 2014 after recognizing pain points in the logistics industry and designing elegant and effective systems to address them. What’s more, today’s supply chains operate at lean levels.

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Efficient Frozen Food Distribution: Inside the Build-out of Two Automated Facilities

Logistics Viewpoints

In December of 2019, the global grocery retailer Ahold Delhaize announced it was investing $480 million to transform and expand its US supply chain operations to support a strategy to transition the supply chain network into a fully-integrated, self-distribution model. Sources of Efficiency.

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Stow Robotics acquires iFollow

Logistics Business Magazine

Its present fleet of cutting-edge AMRs and software are suited for a large range of use-cases, such as collaborative picking and in-and-outbound transport. The acquisition of iFollow is backed by funds managed by Blackstone, stow Group’s majority shareholder.

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Industry View: DCs Rise to Meet Unprecedented Challenges

Logistics Business Magazine

Pressing needs and panic buying have created the equivalent to peak season demand in many industries. With a normal peak, large groups of employees are coordinated and trained all at one time. Customers are reporting that now even greater amounts of inventory are going from inbound trailers to outbound trailers with minimal rehandling.

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Facilities Are a Critical Part of the Enterprise Supply Chain Tech Stack. It’s Time to Start Managing Them That Way

Logistics Viewpoints

That’s why it’s so important that a supply chain industry that needs solutions now must stop squandering the vast untapped value in the facilities that they own and operate today. Depending on the size of a facility, the inability to quickly locate “arrived inventory” in a trailer can put outbound orders or production lines at risk.

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NEXT DC gets Rail Guided Vehicles

Logistics Business Magazine

This automated logistics system is designed to streamline supply and routing processes while meeting the capacity to manage sizeable home furniture and carry it substantial distances to designated storage and outbound locations. The Business Area Supply Chain is part of the global technology group Körber.