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Automation To Help Smooth Singles’ Day Peak

Logistics Business Magazine

Of course, this enormous spike in volumes puts retailers’ supply chains and distribution networks under extreme pressure. However, smart eCommerce retailers are now turning to automated storage and tote handling systems in their distribution centres to ensure they can maintain service levels even during such volume peaks.

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Growing in a Hyper Competitive Market with Samantha Jones

The Logistics of Logistics

About Samantha Jones Samantha Jones has earned her established reputation for professionalism, thought leadership, forward thinking, educational insights, and market insights and resources, over the course of 5+ years of industry contributions.

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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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Cognitive Automation and How it Could Transform the Logistics Industry

Shipchain

As we’ve discussed before, there is still a human element required for many technologically advanced supply chain operations, including automation and blockchain. That said, a future in which smart machines can make decisions on their own (with a touch of human guidance, of course) could be closer than we think.

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[VIDEO] It takes a Village to Create a Future with STEM education & [BONUS] Robotics/Automation Video

GlobalTranz

If you work in a company that needs strong STEM education trained candidates, you may find some useful pointers. They often shy away from STEM education courses and technical education. Kids need hands - on training. Manufacturing companies can help support this training through co-op programs and scholarships.

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If There’s a Manufacturing Skills Gap, How Do We Close It? 4 Ways to Combat the Gap

GlobalTranz

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills should be more heavily included into the educational courses of today’s students. Specifically, more manufacturers should offer training courses focused on STEM education to workers in lower-paying, less-intense positions. The Big Picture.

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Metal Fabrication Robots Get More Mobile with Mix of Technology and Cross-Training

Blue Grace Logistics

How automation can move to where it’s needed in a manufacturing setting. To solve the problem, both industries are turning more toward automation, and both might soon arrive at a technological fork in the road, of sorts. Even so, one day it might help fabricators and warehouse managers alike automate the most challenging applications.