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Inbound vs. Outbound Logistics: Understanding the Key Differences and Optimizing the Last Mile

Locus

In the vast, interconnected world of supply chain management, two terms often come into focus—inbound and outbound logistics. Inbound and outbound logistics are two fundamental components of the overall supply chain management process. What is outbound logistics? Here’s an explanation of both: What is inbound logistics?

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Playbook – How to handle rising transportation costs?

Log-hub

To jump straight to the point, some basic strategies for handling rising transportation costs, which we’ll cover in this Playbook, are related to optimal network design and route optimization. Handling rising transportation costs with Network Design Optimization Apps Within the Network Design App , we focus on optimizing the outbound process.

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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. However, this process not only takes time, but picking and putting down the hand scanner while handling the object risks repetitive stress and strain to the operator.

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Keeping Bakery Distribution Fresh

Logistics Business Magazine

To meet these requirements, the logical choice was to automate as much as possible and design a state-of-the-art facility where advanced systems would handle the majority of production, packaging, warehousing, and outbound distribution in a well-orchestrated, integrated fashion.

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Outbound TMS: The search for a system that can’t be beat

Automotive Logistics

Such software and planning systems are also highly relevant for a wide range of purposes in outbound automotive logistics systems, including for the execution of transport activities and the creation of transparency in relation to distribution flows, increasing transport load rates and auditing freight invoice and payments.

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BEUMER showcases new pouch technology at LogiMAT

Logistics Business Magazine

The operator benefits from simplified returns handling because dynamic buffering eliminates the need for re-storage and picking. BEUMER Group presented the BG Pouch System to the German public for the first time at the recent LogiMAT 2022 event. The sorter increases throughput by 25% compared to conventional pocket sorters.

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Machine Vision Solutions for Logistics Automation

Logistics Business Magazine

Cognex will present machine vision-based solutions for automation in inbound, order fulfilment, sortation, and outbound areas at LogiMAT, the international trade fair for intralogistics solutions and process management, in Stuttgart, Germany, April 25-27th, 2023, at booth J11 in Hall 1.