Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 10, 2024

Christian Klein, SAP’s CEO, Speaking at Sapphire SAP’s user conference, Sapphire, ran from June 3 rd through the 5 th in Orlando. I might tell Alexa, for example, “Play the station Smooth Jazz!” For example, when GenAI is used to write job descriptions, aggregated anonymized customer data can improve the results.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

We were also joined by over 1,500 people from around the world who attended the conference virtually. The theme for the conference was “Ready. Right now, we are looking for a giant breakthrough, giving examples such as the emergence of Google and FaceTime. At the conference, the first two Amplifiers were introduced: Demand.AI

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

A few weeks ago, Trinity held our 2019 Agent Conference in Orlando. The purpose of our Agent Conference is to celebrate, educate, and energize Trinity Agents. Having that type of gratitude shown was another example of how Trinity’s Agents are part of the Trinity Family. Automation. It was humbling to see.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2023

I spent the better part of last week in Las Vegas, NV attending the Blue Yonder ICON customer conference. This was the first time I have attended a Blue Yonder conference in person since 2019, which feels like a lifetime ago. For example, trading partners can give read-access to each other to access data on the data cloud.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The conference as a whole was fantastic, from the location and networking events to the conversations I had and sessions I attended. The conference did not disappoint. A few examples of where connected ecosystems can make an impact are within sustainability, especially when it comes to measuring emissions, and perfect order delivery.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

This private company, funded with $170 million in venture capital, is using artificial intelligence to help automate the decision making around these unforeseen problems. If it is the same consumer goods company that I think it is, I saw their vice president of supply chain speak at a planning conference.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

As you read this, I will be flying home from project44’s Transform conference where I moderated a panel discussion on real-time freight visibility and I recorded several video interviews with project44 customers and partners. Ok, so did everybody else who attended the conference, but it was cool nonetheless.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2021

But there is a technology gap between gleaming new automated facilities and tens of thousands of existing warehouses and distribution centers that pre-date the warehouse building boom of the past 5-10 years. Likewise, most DCs invested in WMS, automation, and infrastructure that were scaled to support predictable peak volumes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

Raja Hammoud, EVP of Products at Coupa, speaking on the main stage at Coupa Inspire Coupa recently completed its Inspire conference. The supply chain design solution, for example, continues to grow in depth and usability. It ran from April 11 th through the 13 th at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas. The use cases just keep expanding.

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WorkWave

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Across industry events, conferences, expos and meetings, AI is the topic that everyone wants to hear more about. Q: How will AI simplify and automate service appointments in the pest control industry? Improved Efficiency : AI automates repetitive tasks and optimizes resource allocation, saving time and reducing costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2024

At supply chain and enterprise application conferences, software companies have talked about using generative AI to create user manuals. The solution is particularly strong in creating visibility and coordination of international transport, collaboration with supplier networks and automating trade finance processes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 15, 2023

Steve Lewis, the president of GXO Direct, the shared services division of GXO Logistics, spoke at Blue Yonder’s ICON user conference. In Southern California, for example, they have a 670,000 square foot warehouse that serves eight different fast-growing ecommerce retailers. Their selection of Blue Yonder is another example of this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

Here is what Mr. Toornman said at the conference. “We As forecasting and order fulfillment becomes more automated, the skills needed by supply chain planners become more analytical. As the P&G example shows, effective collaboration within the broader organization and across partners and customers becomes a key success factor.

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IoT World Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

FedEx, for example, has been on a multiyear digital transformation journey that included cloud computing and work-from-home capabilities but also widespread sensor technology buildouts, robotics forays and continued support of blockchain technologies. Data-Driven Strategies Become Core Value Proposition.

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Freightos

JULY 23, 2015

Logistics is the prime example of a changing industry – colossal, ripe for disruption and utterly opaque. It’s no coincidence that Transport Intelligence just emailed me an invitation to The Future of Logistics conference. And it’s about to get hit by a freight train of innovation. How much do we love freight innovation?

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

I started going to events in conferences because I didn’t work anywhere. For example, instead of the entire backing thing, a lot of them moved directly to wallets. You can automate them, you can build excellence, and you can continue innovating every month or every quarter. China is the other example.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Which is why a drone took flight from the stage during Ryan’s keynote address at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Conference a couple of weeks ago and broadcast real-time video of the audience as it flew across the front of the hall. Drones and its future in supply chain and logistics processes. Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture.

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Freightos

JULY 11, 2017

For example, there are over 100,000 companies that sell over $100,000 worth of goods annually. Alibaba’s Jack Ma recently urged 3,000 US small businesses to do just that at a conference in Detroit, and he is making good on his vision to take down trade barriers that are holding smaller businesses back from buying and selling globally.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 9, 2015

Further, as JOC.com wrote in a recent article about the Wall Street Journal an alysis: At the moment, shippers at the NASSTRAC conference said capacity is more balanced than a year ago, in the aftermath of the disruptive polar vortex cycle of winter storms. told the conference. billion manufacturer TriMas Corp. Partnership Agreements.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Among the new launches at Intermodal Europe 2022, Spectainer is pioneering better trade to address the wasteful problem of empty containers with the COLLAPSECON which works in tandem with what is claimed to be, the “world’s first fully automated collapsing operating station”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2020

In this in-depth webinar, you’ll learn: • The risks inherent in high-payload material transport and how automation can reduce them. • An example of a Tier 1 auto manufacturer’s “fork free” initiative. The responsibilities of robot manufacturers, integrators and owners based on standards and regulations. •

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Here are some examples from the past few months: P&G : P&G is undertaking “a multibillion-dollar effort to remake an antiquated and inefficient network of factories, warehouses and offices into a new model that gets goods to stores more quickly,” reported Sharon Terlep in the Wall Street Journal this past February.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Let’s add Big Data , Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to the conversation, all of which have been on the menu at this year’s conference. . An example is the way the Kindred robot learns to pick an item – in the best case scenario. The post Material Handling & Logistics Conference: Day 2. Can we talk about robots?

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 24, 2018

Supply chain skills in high demand, digital twins, disruptive technologies, and other takeaways from the 2018 Gartner supply chain conference. I just returned from the highly engaging and inspiring Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. He gave examples of how large companies are acquiring digital startups.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 18, 2018

Kroger will automate warehouses with Ocado’s help (CNN Money). Welcome to the automated warehouse of the future (The Verge). At the Descartes Evolution 2018 conference in March, Mark Holifield, Home Depot’s Executive Vice President of Supply Chain and Product Development, discussed how the retailer is investing $1.2

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Now, That's Logistics

JULY 13, 2018

As attendees at this year’s SEMICON West conference saw this week, advanced technology is playing a major role in these new “connected” logistics, warehousing, and transportation networks. IoT and blockchain, for example, can facilitate the recording of every transaction across multiple copies of the distributed ledger.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 18, 2017

And, as if choreographed, speakers from startups, carriers, and forwarders brought up example after another of where the forces of change are finally breaking through. Full disclosure: This article contains many great quotes from the conference’s speakers. Harnessing cloud-based software to automate freight pricing.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

While major suppliers like Koerber provide warehouse automation, warehouse management software (WMS), order management systems (OMS) and much more, however, it is estimated that one third of warehouses still operate manually. Warehouse employees enjoy working with bots and automation improves safety,” he added. It’s a niche.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Key areas here are automation, alternative energies, circularity and service. “Not everything possible always makes sense,” states Frank Müller, Senior Vice President Brand Management, during this year’s STILL press conference, held this week at its manufacturing HQ in Hamburg. Services that go beyond the STILL brand.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In the fashion and fast-moving consumer goods sectors alone, these are more than 100 brands, including, for example, Marc O’Polo, Jack Wolfskin, KiK and Wenko. Many companies can become even more efficient – for example, by optimising the deployment of drivers with the help of trailer concepts or more decoupled loading times.

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Trinity Logistics

JUNE 3, 2021

Some examples of these are: U.S. International Conference on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH). Not only does technology offer you savings in time but of human error as many processes become automated. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the U.S., SUSTAINABILITY.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2018

Last fall after attending the CSCMP conference in Atlanta, I shared my observation that digital transformation is now a central theme in the industry. This laborious process has been scaled in-house, then out-sourced, and partnered with rigid, error-prone ETL automation. Many of you have had the same observation.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

In simple terms, AMR technology differs from the science behind long-established Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) in that the units do not rely on human interaction to change route. Of course, other forms of robotic and automated intralogistics technology are taking off too.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The automotive industry is being reshaped by the rise of electric and autonomous vehicles but will only stay ahead of the curve in an age of greater supply chain complexity by adopting wider digitalisation as part of its routine operations, delegates at the JDA conference in Barcelona were told last week. Warehouse of the future.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Descartes Systems Group , a global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that it has acquired GroundCloud, the creator of a cloud-hosted final-mile automation platform, for $138 million. By acquiring GroundCloud, which was officially known as Windigo Logistics Inc.,

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

A TMS user, for example, can say to the system, “Show me all uncovered loads,” or an inventory manager can ask, “Which stores have less than three days inventory of product X?” Earlier this year, for example, XPO Logistics unveiled voice-enabled delivery tracking through Amazon.com Inc’s Echo or Alphabet Inc’s Google Home speakers.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 8, 2016

Automation? An Example of Matching Systems with People for Sustained Manufacturing Operations Excellence. Warehousing: Bar coding, RFID, Slotting, Sophisticated picking methods, Robotics, Automation. What is Driving Sustainable Manufacturing Operations Excellence? What is the most important part of manufacturing? Work centers?

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