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Automation To Help Smooth Singles’ Day Peak

Logistics Business Magazine

Single people mark the occasion by spoiling and treating themselves to gifts and presents, but it wasn’t until Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba chose the date to offer heavily discounted merchandise on its platform for 24 hours, starting at midnight on the 11th November, 2009, that Singles’ Day became a major commercial event.

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WMS + SaaS + Automation = Smooth Operations

Logistics Viewpoints

It starts with your first form of Automation, Warehouse Management. An up-to-date WMS will capture, control and disperse your information, and provide the necessary instruction that modern, automated systems need to work effectively. Of course, you will need a team of dedicated IT specialists to keep the system running.

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From Push-Cart to Cutting-Edge Robotics: China Skips Traditional Warehouse Automation

Logistics Viewpoints

Of course, this was an exaggeration, but it illustrated his point well. “ Of course, fiber optic land lines offer greater bandwidth. I see a similar paradigm playing out in the warehouse automation landscape of China. Traditional “bolted-down” automation is the landlines in this paradigm. But bandwidth is one dimension.

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Delta presents comprehensive packaging automation

Logistics Business Magazine

Delta , a world-class provider of industrial automation solutions, will be presenting a full range of automation products for the packaging industry at this year’s Hispack in Barcelona. Delta’s industrial robots combine with peripheral devices to build quick, flexible, and highly precise automated production lines.

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The Global Warehouse Automation Market is “En Fuego”

Logistics Viewpoints

This was on a day I was busy analyzing the global warehouse automation market. Similarly, a Honeywell investor presentation stated that its Intelligrated business grew by approximately 50 percent in 2021. There are many other similar growth examples in warehouse automation. Do they have reason to believe it has run its course?

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. This application included automated load and route planning processes. So, what more can be done from a planning-software perspective?

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DFB Tech Stack: Invoice Reconciliation

Parade

This post was written in collaboration with , OpenEnvoy , a leading automated invoice reconciliation tool. Outsourcing invoice reconciliation to a bank is more common , but that presents its own host of problems: Banks typically require a 3PL or freight broker to use the bank’s own payment network, charging a fee of up to 5% per invoice.