Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

How can AI contribute to end-to-end decision automation? Here, let’s explore 6 essential elements of AI-powered automation in supply chain planning & analytics, culminating in a powerful solution. Process automation is pivotal in providing end-to-end visibility across the supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

A key example is the “Autonomous Vertical Articulated Robot,” which employs sensors including cameras, radar and LiDAR to perceive its surroundings, navigate efficiently, supply materials and execute tasks such as assembly and defect inspection with its robotic arm.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In warehouse environments, AI-powered robotics and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are revolutionizing order fulfillment processes by handling tasks such as picking, packing, and sorting with unmatched efficiency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

Unlike fixed automation, flexible solutions can be reconfigured or expanded to meet changing operational needs, from handling new SKU profiles to adopting advanced technologies. Automation is pivotal in this process, enabling consistent performance while supporting scalability and adaptability. However, technology alone is not enough.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2025

For example, with a data gateway, a supply planner gains accelerated access to customer orders, inventory levels, and transportation schedules, all in one place, to increase the user experience of making the right choice to identify inefficiencies and make better, more informed decisions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2023

Automate was not co-located with ProMat as it has been in years past. McCormick Place North Entering the grand concourse and riding the escalator up one floor, we will take a left hand turn into the North Hall, home to the North Manufacturing and Assembly Solution Center and the Robotics and Automation Solution Center.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

An iGPU (integrated graphic processing unit) is a current example. It provides risk alerts, decision-making, and automation. As an example, if we have congested lanes, the system will automatically flag that we have a potential risk of delay based. For example, we’re working on telling the solution that it has a budget.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patagonia serves as an excellent example of this approach, incorporating recycled materials into its products and offering repair services to minimize waste while maintaining a strong brand commitment to sustainability.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

This application included automated load and route planning processes. A good KPI dashboard can show you for example, the difference between planned and actual kilometers for each route. Automated route planning software is improving in effectiveness and costs are coming down.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As automation continues to evolve in logistics, two technologies are becoming central to modern delivery methods: autonomous drones and autonomous vehicles. For example, self-driving trucks could deliver shipments to regional hubs, where drones would then complete last-mile delivery.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 30, 2024

For example, current costs for private space launches range from $2,600 to over $10,000 per kilogram, depending on the mission, which poses a barrier for smaller companies. The materials and engineering involved in refurbishment reduce costs only incrementally.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Rockwell Automation hosted its user conference, Automation Fair , in Boston, MA during the week of November 6. Many of my ARC Advisory Group colleagues were in attendance due to our company’s strong focus on manufacturing automation. However, it was a different experience for me due to my focus on logistics technologies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 14, 2024

As digital threats loom larger than ever, automating your warehouse is not just about enhancing operational efficiency — it’s equally about safeguarding your digital and physical assets. As warehouses evolve from manual to automated systems, the security of these solutions cannot be an afterthought.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In response, most companies are investing in warehouse automation and robotics. Businesses would like to make the most of their investments in warehouse automation, but they’re not sure how to do that. Let’s look at the example of an order that needs to go out by 5:00 pm, when FedEx or UPS is making a pickup. The result?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Connected vehicles, following standards like the SAE J3016, which defines the six levels of vehicle automation, are becoming a crucial part of logistics operations. For example, logistics companies are to employ Level 2 and 3 autonomous vehicles that assist drivers by adjusting speed and steering based on road conditions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2024

In some DCs, there is a high degree of automation, as conveyors and other forms of advanced automation rapidly move goods from one part of a warehouse to another. Warehouse execution systems emerged to optimize work across both the manual and more automated parts of the warehouse. If everything works smoothly, this is great.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 10, 2024

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. For example, lead times are often set and then ignored. Optical character recognition has been used to help automate this problem.

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 2, 2024

The structural designs were far more tolerant of production variation, for example. While the design of the airplane made the airframe much easier to assemble compared, for example, to the 1970 era 747, there were still supplier quality issues and general “stuff” to deal with in production. Usually… overtime.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Cyber Risks of Building Automation Systems: The Target Hack If you don’t think cybersecurity for the built environment is a risk, consider the well-publicized cyber attack on major retailer Target back in 2013. Each of these systems features their own attached sensors and devices, from cameras to thermostats to light sensors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2024

In our picking example, you would begin by analyzing the entire warehouse to identify where the bottleneck or constraint occurs. One example in the warehouse could be optimizing the path taken by pickers. our warehouse example, you would adjust the other elements of the picking process to support and align with the bottleneck.

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

When “trams” (coal carts) were in short supply, for example, the “trammers” would horde carts to optimize their team’s performance at the expense of other teams being limited by the number of carts available. A classic example of this is a heijunka or load-leveling box.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2024

In short, because of intelligent automation. Warehouse execution systems emerged to optimize work across both the manual and more automated parts of the warehouse. For example, if transportation plans can leverage pack logic components, typically used by a WMS, trucks can be filled more fully.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2025

Many companies are undergoing a digital transformation , switching from manual processes to automating routine tasks. For example, in some instances simply adjusting delivery windows can save more than you can through rate negotiations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2024

That’s why they need to bring a distribution process efficiency mindset that includes investments in technology and automation. These types of technologies allow for greater visibility across all stages of the distribution process as well as more efficient use of resources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 17, 2024

For example, most stops are minor stops, and an average production line stops 20,000 times per year. Machine stops can be planned for changeovers for example, or unplanned for equipment failures. The Challenge – Eliminating Machine Stops A minor stop for G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers is defined as being less than 10 minutes of downtime.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 4, 2024

It serves as a compelling example of how retailers must reassess their inventory strategies to adapt to rapidly shifting market demands driven by trends. Daily Automated Segmentation Enter the realm of automated segmentation, a solution that streamlines inventory management by taking demand variability into account daily.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Technology advancements in hardware, cloud, and in-memory computing fueled this increase, followed by the boost from automation, machine learning, and AI. For example, running a batch process that now takes 8 hours instead of 12 does not translate into supply chain agility. Running a flawed process faster only gets you so far.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2024

Another example of data normalization is accounting for lost sales due to stockouts or waste of perishable products due to overstocking of inventory. For example, the demand for the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup will behave much more similarly to the flavor of Chocolate than Rainbow Sherbert. Wouldn’t it be cool to know within minutes?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

For example, most people expect free next-day delivery for online purchases as a result of Amazon Prime. Looking at the example of route optimization, as a company takes more trucks off the road, or reduces the number of miles driven, it is better for carbon emissions, but also for profitability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 18, 2024

CRG Automation was demoing pallet build. For example, if the system has trouble picking a particular item, an alert can tell a planner not to allow that stock keeping unit to enter the robotic picking queue. Each picking involves picking individual units and putting those items in a container. First there are robotic arms.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2024

We needed to identify nuanced patterns, anomalies, and automation opportunities in near real-time and enhance our operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. GP, for example, has also had success in demonstrating that Causal AI can solve difficult sourcing problems. They demonstrated a 10X increase in touchless order throughput.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Consider a planner in Brazil working with the previous lead time prediction example, who has forgotten how to update the parameters. Sometimes hilarious examples of its “hallucinations” illustrate its failure to understand ( My Dinners with GPT-4 by Justin Smith-Ruiu is one of my favorites). It doesn’t understand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 9, 2024

Another example is commuting. Over the years, AI capabilities for prediction, clustering, segmentation, and more have accelerated supply chain strategies, automating daily operations and augmenting data-driven intelligent decision support. The supply chain is no exception. These advancements have revolutionized supply chain planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Ship from warehouse (robotics and other automation can be used to lower labor costs), 2. One example of the detailed costing this is used in warehouse fulfillment, but not in store fulfillment, involves engineered labor studies. In general, she asserted, the order profitability by flow path would be the following: 1.

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