Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In some operations the items are unpacked and placed into tubs or bins before presentation at the pick-face to facilitate the Order Picking process, (most common in “Goods to the Man” operations). A properly designed order picking document can also increase the accuracy of the Order Picking operation.

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RPA Labs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Whether your company is a domestic freight broker, an international freight forwarder , an ocean carrier , or a trucking fleet, you probably rely on your employees to do data entry, document processing, shipment tracking, and invoicing. RPA Labs’ Document Bots allow for seamless system- to-system interaction with a no-code interface.

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Parade

MARCH 3, 2021

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.

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Conger

MARCH 22, 2024

This new idea has become a big part of the modern business world, revolutionizing how goods are transported within warehouses and manufacturing plants through automated guided vehicles (AGVs). Table of Contents Toggle Understanding Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) What is an AGV? Let’s dive in! So what is the difference?

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Conger

MARCH 22, 2024

This new idea has become a big part of the modern business world, revolutionizing how goods are transported within warehouses and manufacturing plants through automated guided vehicles (AGVs). Table of Contents Toggle Understanding Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) What is an AGV? Let’s dive in! So what is the difference?

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RPA Labs

MAY 26, 2022

RPA Labs offers three core products – RPA Flow for document automation, RPA Engage for response automation, and RPA Pursuit for track & trace, container visibility, and ocean, air, and rail API connections. Documents are the bane of every logistics service provider’s existence.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Automation has the potential to exponentially increase efficiency, profitability, and safety in the logistics and manufacturing sectors, as will be seen at ProMAT Chicago. So far, the lack of a robust, yet flexible navigation technology has limited the scope and scale of automation in material handling operations.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 31, 2017

For example: Paperwork and data entry: WMS has reduced the need for people to spend time completing paper forms or entering data from documents into spreadsheets and other data-management applications. Warehouse Automation. Scanning Technologies. What a wasteful use of good warehouse cube. The Paperless Warehouse.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 18, 2024

Companies aiming to improve their competitiveness through more highly automated intralogistics will find everything they need from a single source at Linde Material Handling (MH): a broad portfolio of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and mobile robots (AMRs), suitable for projects ranging from small to large and simple to complex.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

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?

Logistics Network Optimization Software 75

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 11, 2024

STILL, the Hamburg-based intralogistics provider, is systematically expanding its service concept and will soon be offering fast and flexible on-site service for automated trucks. In addition, the centralised STILL spare parts supply ensures a high level of parts availability in the automation sector.

Automation 52

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Shipping and Freight Resource

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Digitalisation is the use of digitization and digital technologies like Blockchain, AI, Machine Learning and Automation to convert your business to a digital business. Whether digital or manual, the business of shipping involves a lot of documentation. You can imagine the state of the fish when it gets to destination. Image from : APL.

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3PL Links

JANUARY 8, 2025

All in all , this tool helps automate fleet management, simplifying day-to-day operations and facilitating the creation of performance parameters for better decision-making by managers.

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20Cube Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The future of shipping lies the way the technology is conceived and adopted to automate manual processes. TMS (Transport Management System) is one such automation that is helping manage and automate the operations by providing visibility into the transportation activities. Why TMS is needed?

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Shipping and Freight Resource

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

2020 threw at us a potent concoction of virulent market conditions including a pandemic, skyrocketing freight rates, reduced availability of space and equipment on container ships, unprecedented demand and port congestions along with the usual documentation and visibility issues that we have been facing for years. Take the survey.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

Coesia, a leader in innovative industrial and packaging solutions, will showcase its internal logistics and e-commerce solutions to automate order fulfilment processes at LogiMAT (March 19-21, 2024; Hall 7, Stand 7A61.) At the show, Coesia’s Groups will display technologies to support picking, consolidation, packaging, and palletising.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Exchanging documents electronically improves transaction speed and visibility while decreasing the amount of money you spend on manual processes. Finally, there is also resources needed in your transportation department, since there no longer has to be an employee present to handle these sorts of tasks.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

From 1st January, 2023, shipments of goods from Switzerland must be declared electronically to German customs with a presentation notification. This affects shipments that cannot be handled by a customs declaration before presentation or a through transport procedure, as well as certain other non-standard procedures.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 20, 2024

When you automate data management, you ensure information is centralized and appears only once, reducing data redundancy. You now have one central source of information, allowing you to reduce redundant data infrastructures and drastically cut the cost of storing multiple documents in multiple different places.

Manufacturing Procurement 105

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“The difficult market situation caused by the geopolitical crises and higher material and energy expenses in almost all business segments presented not only our company but also the entire intralogistics industry with major challenges in 2022,” says Steffen Bersch, CEO of the SSI Schaefer Group.

Material Savings 69

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Parade

MARCH 3, 2021

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.

Supply Chain Software 78

Supply Chain Software Supply Chain Planning Software Resource Reduction Cost Reduction 78

Parade

MARCH 3, 2021

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.

Supply Chain Software 78

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3PL Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Amazon is on the forefront of automation in the warehouse , currently using 45,000 Kiva Robots, after purchasing the company Kiva Systems in 2012 (they’re now renamed “Amazon robots”). Documents can be routed to multiple departments, integrated with dispatch, billing, TMS, and other document management systems.

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UL EHS- Sustainability

OCTOBER 10, 2019

How do you present your case to achieve the results you need? Through precisely curated documentation, management can see clearly defined data that identifies the strengths and weakness of the company’s environmental, health and safety programming. But how do you document that mountain of EHS data?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last week, I gave the keynote presentation at the Dangerous Goods Symposium, sponsored by LabelMaster and the DG Exchange. In my presentation, I highlighted five key transportation trends that are changing supply chains from a technology standpoint. Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide ; Clint Reiser. billion in 2019.

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Camelot 3PL Software

JUNE 6, 2024

The implementation of EDI in warehousing automated and standardized communication between businesses, streamlining processes such as order-to-cash and procure-to-pay cycles. This automation not only reduced human error but also significantly improved the speed and accuracy of business document exchanges.

Supply Chain Software 52

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LandLink

DECEMBER 12, 2018

“I believe we are going to see very rapid evolution toward the use of what Gartner calls smart automated guided vehicles, that are also known as autonomous mobile robots, within DCs,” says Klappich. Every time a product changes hands, the transaction could be documented, creating a permanent history of a product, from manufacture to sale.

Supply Chain Design Software 79

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Software Logistics Network Optimization Software Tracking and Tracing 79

CH Robinson Logistics

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Rapid growth in ecommerce since the ’90s has presented various challenges to the logistics industry in Asia and around the globe – including proper infrastructure and connectivity. This year, Alibaba’s Single Days sales set record 74.1 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 26% compared to the same timeframe in 2019.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

More than 1,500 exhibitors from Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Africa will present their current portfolios of products, systems, and solutions for efficient intralogistics processes to an international industry audience across 125,000 square meters of the fully booked exhibition centre—7% more exhibit space than last year.

Production 52

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 14, 2023

The business processes: that determine how an enterprise works The people: who do the work and the way they are functionally organized The systems: that are implemented to automate, consolidate and streamline procedures and data The role of these elements is important in how an ERP project achieves its goals.

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Turvo

MAY 11, 2020

Profit Margin Slippage Presents New Challenges for Freight Brokers Industries across the globe continue to experience shrinking profit margins. Users need a platform that centralizes document storage and reduces the hassle of maintaining records for compliance and payment purposes. Among freight brokers, gross margins fell to 16.1%

Cost Reduction 55

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Freightos

JUNE 17, 2024

An example of such a case is sentiment analysis, or rather detecting opinion present in text (good, neutral, bad). Matt was previously the founder/CEO of Catapult International, the industry leading ocean shipping rate management system. With an internal model, the data is stored within the firewalls of the AI company and nowhere else.

Modeling Software 119

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 6, 2018

Use an automated system to review cargo insurance offers for all shipments. Automated systems can generate immediate pricing for cargo insurance and ensure all relevant information is passed along to the driver. Integrating cargo insurance within freight management technology is key to making automation successful.

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The beginnings of blockchain technology can be traced back to the 2008 presentation of the Bitcoin concept by Satoshi Nakamoto. In fact, digital documentation and blockchain smart contracts are already being used by the ports of Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Singapore to automate procedures and dematerialize documents.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The theme of this year’s conference, “Go Beyond,” presents a bold vision for supply chains of the future, centred around automation, innovation and collaboration. Lee Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital and Zebra Technologies to continue to define the future of supply chain automation.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As timber is usually shipped in large volumes, there has to be an extremely close coordination between the various parties from the live-loading of the cargo into the container, the carriers, the entities fumigating the containers, and the documentation team that prepares all the pre-shipment and shipment documentation. Practicality.

Modeling Software 67

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Pundits claim that blockchain technology , a distributed and immutable system for documenting transactions, will disrupt the supply chain industry substantially over the next ten years or so. The following artificial intelligence capabilities are the most commonly adopted by supply chain organisations: Process automation.

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