Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Despite early predictions of lowered volumes, Locus customers once again picked a record number of items using LocusBots during this critical holiday shopping period,” said Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics. “It million units picked per day, representing a 2x increase over 2021. During this same period, LocusBots averaged 3.3

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The new logistics centre’s layout hosts a five-level pallet pick tower and a combination of VNA (very narrow aisles) and wide aisles racking systems to ensure maximum efficiency and immediate selectivity. The new system provides the retailer with 5,700 pallet locations, meeting its current needs and space for future growth.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The technology will make its picking operations more efficient, flexible and agile by reducing required space, improving picking times and extending the life of its logistics facilities. The AutoStore-based solution meets our business needs perfectly.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Dematic has recently been selected by French clothing producer and retailer Kiabi to enhance its stock picking processes with a focus on the family apparel specialist’s e-commerce business. Initially, the solution is to consist of 12 multishuttle lanes equipped with ergonomic goods-to-person (GTP) stations and a cutting-edge handling system.

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GoShip Blog

JULY 12, 2022

Sometimes, business owners aren’t able to handle all the shipping operations without additional shipping services. While most retail businesses can handle the above operations by their means, some situations require directing the responsibilities to the shipping company or the carrier. What are additional shipping services?

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A reliable order picking system is therefore vital. Online beauty products company flaconi in Germany is using Wanzl’s KT3 order picking trolleys at their 10,000 sqm warehouse in Berlin. “We flaconi has a total of 100 trolleys, provided by the industry expert, in use every day for both storage and picking.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Restock/Replenishment Planning – Maintaining optimal inventory levels is crucial to meet customer demands without overstocking. Pick Error Prediction – Mispicks – when an associate picks the wrong product – can have serious detrimental effects on a company’s bottom line and their reputation with customers.

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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. For many, it generates more revenue than the first three quarters of the year combined.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 3, 2022

To meet the growing demands in scaling and changing production environments towards fully automated and intelligently networked production, the company ONTEC Automation GmbH from Naila in Bavaria has developed an autonomously driving robotic assistance system. The robot can then accurately pick up the coils and process them further.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2023

I spent the full day yesterday roaming the floor and meeting with exhibitors. And the product is a 32 foot high autonomous case handling robot (ACR) that is easy to see across the exhibition floor. I decided to (virtually) pick boxes from a shelf onto a Locus robot. ProMat 2023 is being held this week, March 202 -23 in Chicago.

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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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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

BITO Storage Systems is set to throw a spotlight on order picking at IntraLogisteX 2020 as it looks to help delegates meet the challenges of the… The post BITO shines spotlight on order picking at IntraLogisteX 2020 appeared first on 24/7 Customs Broker News.

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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

APRIL 7, 2023

Display on the handle Furthermore, RAVAS will introduce a new advanced display for hand pallet trucks at the show. Main feature of this design is that the display is integrated in the handle of the hand pallet truck. For LogiMAT , our R&D engineers developed a prototype truck equipped with patented display on the handle technology.

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FW Logsitcs

MAY 13, 2024

Businesses need to deliver orders quickly to meet customer expectations. By offering fast order processing, picking, packing , and shipping, businesses can meet these expectations. It’s important to ensure accuracy throughout the entire fulfillment process, from picking and packing to efficient shipping.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

We’re talking about tasks like picking and packing orders, verifying delivery addresses, finding the most affordable way to ship packages, tracking deliveries, handling problems, and managing returns. ShipMonk team members work off of picking lists to accurately locate merchandise within the warehouse.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2024

What used to take us an hour, we can now service customers, in many cases, under 10 minutes, and our picking speed is as much as 300% more productive than when we did it manually (picking out of shelving or out of racking in our buildings).” We know what it costs to pick out of a rack or off of a shelf or out of AutoStore.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

In 45,000 sq m of warehouse space, 250 Geek+ robots handle both goods-to-person picking and order sorting processes for NEXT’s e-commerce operations. Faced with high demand and operating in the volatile fashion industry, NEXT decided to streamline its processes and scale up efficiently to meet new customer requirements.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 27, 2024

Top Time-Saving Fulfillment Center Solutions At a glance, for your ecommerce business to thrive you need a fulfillment center and fulfillment services outfitted with time-saving automation that make picking, packing, shipping, sorting, and managing more efficient. And we’re not talking about being overly complicated. Here’s how it works.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 10, 2017

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. That process had to be repeated across 10 different yard-truck drivers.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 1, 2023

Cimcorp helped Kwik Trip automate order fulfilment in its new baking facility with a rapid, scalable solution designed to meet rising demand and guarantee freshness for its bakery products sold at over 700 locations daily. Kwik Trip also uses a “pick-by-light” system for picking less-than-full trays in outbound orders.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

With a client list that includes such e-commerce giants as Alibaba, PDD and JD.com , ZTO Express’s share of the Chinese express parcel delivery market is approaching 20 per cent, which makes it one of China’s most significant parcel handling businesses. Both types have CE certification.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

At the upcoming LogiMAT in Stuttgart, March 19th to 21st, Dematic highlights how every solution they design and install is focused on taking customers beyond merely meeting targets and propels their businesses to a far-reaching future able to tackle any obstacles on their individual journeys. Under the motto, ‘Solved: Your Ambition.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 29, 2021

Collaborative Mobile Robots (CMRs) play a critical role in efforts to meet unexpected demand, handle the increase in each picking, offset unpredictable labor availability and launch or expand fulfill-from-store and omnichannel initiatives.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

CKF Systems utilises ABB high speed robots to help customer perfectly pick and pack snack product. The system replaces a previously installed robotic picking line which used older versions of ABB’s FlexPicker, the IRB340. This posed a tough challenge for CKF’s team.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2023

Logistex , a leading provider of automated materials handling and software (WMS) solutions, and Hai Robotics , a pioneer in Autonomous Case-handling Robots (ACRs), have announced a strategic partnership aimed at transforming warehouse automation.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

Reliability, visibility, fleet management and parts supply are just some of the benefits that Hyster lift trucks and ReachStackers have brought to the Port of Oxelösund to support its tough metal coil handling requirements. The post Tough Hyster trucks for metal coil handling appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Supply Chain and Logistics executives are under a great deal of pressure to not only meet today’s more demanding customer expectations, but to do so in a cost-effective manner. One area that many companies overlook for potential benefits is material handling and fleet management. Material Handling Challenges. Measuring Success.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The 150-year-old Finnish beverage and brewing company Olvi relies on Cimcorp’s WCS to handle all intralogistics within its distribution centre. The 24-hour cycle means that we must pick and deliver one day’s goods within 24 hours,” says Ilkka Heikkilä. A voice-directed picking system can be used, if required.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Kardex FulfillX takes the unexpected surprises out of go-live and allows new AutoStore systems to ramp-up faster and meet or exceed business cases in as little as 6 months. This user-friendly picking display responds to movements and enables ergonomic, fast, and error-free picking.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2024

The solution meets the issues of 3pl industry by providing flexible in product handling and throughput. 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.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

At LogiMAT in Stuttgart, Germany, KNAPP presented technologies that help companies meet these goals. 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.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Locus Vector, the autonomous mobile robot (AMR) has a payload of up to 272 kg, can move autonomously in any direction (omnidirectional) and is therefore particularly suitable for picking items with higher weights and those that require special handling. Named to the Inc. Locus is headquartered in Wilmington, MA (USA) and Amsterdam.

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LandLink

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Transportation could be planned for full pallets and truckloads, distribution centers could process work at a predictable pace to meet brick and mortar replenishment needs, and DC facility automation was less intensive and less prone to bottlenecks. In the past a slightly disjointed supply chain got the job done.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How a UK warehouse facility used robotics and automation to meet some very common challenges. WINIT automated its order-fulfilment centre operations with the help of the HAI Robotics ACR (Autonomous Case-Handling Robot) solution. The solution involved deploying 100 HAIPICK A42 robots and 16 on-conveyor workstations for order picking.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 25, 2023

Edeka Freienbrink is one of five Edeka distribution centres Cimcorp has been modernizing with intralogistics automation designed for fresh food handling. and picking starts in the system at 12:00 p.m. The picking must be done on time,” says Rene Klaus. “We the next morning. We work from Sunday to Friday.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

In doing so, Vanderlande has added the RightHand Robotics award-winning RightPick item handling system to its Smart Item Robotics (SIR) portfolio of technologies, following the company’s strategy to accelerate the use of robotics in warehousing.

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