Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2021

He is head of sales for the cement industry at BEUMER Group, a company which since its foundation in 1935 develops future-oriented solutions for the construction and cement industry. What happens if for example a packaging system in Indonesia or Peru fails? ” This means: recognising trends and offering the right solutions. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For example, when a UPS strike was looming last year, the Interos solution automatically highlighted Cooper’s strategic suppliers that relied on UPS for shipping. Of course it would! Agility and Resilience Dr. Runkle gave a few examples of the varied ways in which they use the solution to improve their operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

For example, for a yogurt company, decision of where to ship a short lifecycle product coming out of a factory is done daily because “demand can shift in very short time frames.” Meanwhile decisions like how much production capacity needs to be added, or what raw materials need to be purchased, don’t change on a daily basis.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2023

The new vehicles do of course also have limitations in terms of their range. We’ll probably need to have some top-up charging capacity, but it’s difficult to say how much right now. The project is a collaboration between the Gothenburg Port Authority, the Volvo Group, Scania and Stena Line.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2021

BEUMER Group thinks ahead and, for the first time, commissions a complete packaging line including palletiser – from a distance of over 4,000 kilometres. Helping customers in the event of faults or shutdowns of existing systems is no problem for BEUMER Group – even from a distance. Test run required.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

Beumer Group supplied a complex complete system composed of several belt conveyors to one of the leading cement manufacturers in Thailand, for transporting limestone from the quarry to the blending bed. The system is dimensioned for a conveying capacity of 2,200 tonnes per hour. After approx. Trouble-free operation.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

In this article, written by Markus Kammerhofer, Director Sales Retro, TGW Logistics Group , we look at the most important factors for a successful retrofit intralogistics project. For another, knowledge is lost over the years when, for example, the IT experts who still know how to work with the programming languages C and C++ retire.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Hase Safety Group sets course for growth: Automated industrial trucks are also very flexible in combination with variable goods transfer. One example is the expansion of the automated warehouse at Hase Safety Gloves GmbH. Until today, the course is clearly set on growth. IFOY category : Integrated Warehouse Solution.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

Jörg Spiekermann, sales manager for palletising and packaging systems in the Consumer Goods area of Beumer Group , knows how to solve individual tasks with standard components. With stretch hooding, Beumer Group offers an efficient possibility, even for difficult cases. ” The highly elastic stretch hood. No wetness in, but out.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 8, 2017

In today’s post, I’ll share some concrete examples of machine learning applications used today in the context of S&OP. The first example is to use machine learning for improving the results of your promotions and improving sales. Take the Coca Cola company, for example. Machine learning to boost your sales.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When you can barely see beyond the bow of the ship, when extreme wind and waves threaten to throw you off course – or worse, sink you – it’s understandable that long-term thinking can get chucked overboard like so much extra ballast. I can only imagine what it must be like to be at sea during a major storm.

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Now, That's Logistics

DECEMBER 21, 2018

“Freight volumes are continuing to trend upwards at a solid rate by historical standards, helped by strong consumer confidence and robust global investment growth,” the group points out. Nonetheless, amid signs that manufacturing firms’ export order books are no longer growing, other demand drivers have softened over the course of the year.”.

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Conger

MAY 11, 2022

AGVs are automated material handling equipment that follows predefined paths with limited ability to make real-time corrections to its course. AMRs are automated material handling equipment that use digital maps or sensors to navigate its environment, while being able to make real-time course correction. When Were AGVs Invented?

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Step forward, Iain Gillard and Big Box Group. Let’s think of an imaginary example. Let’s say a client wants 10,000 pallets as a capacity. We can put a raft of ideas to them: ‘if you go down the VNA route, this will be your capacity, if you prefer reach trucks then this is your capacity’, and so on.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 29, 2021

Of course, during that same period, many retailers performed extremely well. Greater efforts to mitigate volatility in freight costs, such as using more dedicated capacity or making larger use of private fleets. Monitor container volumes at origin into the future to gain insight into demand-driven pressures on capacity (and rates).

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World Food Programme Logistics

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Working with non-verbal communication can be a sensitive way to work with different social groups or within difficult power dynamics’. a good example is the joint evaluation of the Mozambique cyclone response of 2019. AC: Basically, sitting and talking to people through direct interviews and focus groups.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

Modular AMR-based sortation systems are also scalable, so additional robots can be introduced as and when they are needed to cope with any spikes in throughput and, what’s more, if an individual robot malfunctions, it is simply and quickly removed from the ‘shop floor’ and replaced with no discernible drop in throughput capacity.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

With a precisely tailored racking system for production supply in the automotive sector, AR Racking has created the basis for optimal intralogistic processes in the new logistics center of the Seifert Logistics Group. The core business of the company is the automotive motive sector. The new building has changed everything for us.

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Material Handling and Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

Of course, some design issues are strategic and take longer to implement, but many offer quick efficiency improvements. For example, a company might limit its exposure to trade uncertainties by extending the time period for renewing employees’ laptops or cell phones, which are largely manufactured overseas, from two years to three years.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the last year, the UK’s cold storage industry capacity has topped 40 million cubic meters, for the football fans amongst you that is the equivalent to the bowl volume of 35 Wembley Stadiums. The best way to save lives of course, is to ensure automatic fire detection is in place, across your entire cold storage facility.

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Now, That's Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2019

Of course, keeping up with those order volumes on the manufacturing side isn’t easy. Neither is dealing with transportation challenges like the driver shortage and capacity crunches. As the truck market continues to tighten in terms of capacity and equipment availability, those issues won’t go away anytime soon.”.

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Conger

JULY 20, 2020

Of course not. Forklift capacity, stability, steering, maneuvering, and visibility . With lots of options and aggressive marketing for online certification courses, you've probably had this question cross your mind. Now that we have that out of the way, let's talk about what you can expect from online courses.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Demand for rail transport is growing faster than service providers can keep up with, according to Siegfried Jung, head of planning and steering vehicle dispatch and transport at BMW Group. Jung says that increased demand for rail transport, from both public and industrial sectors, currently exceeds capacity.

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Locus

MARCH 27, 2024

Take XYZ Retail for example, juggling 100 diverse orders ranging from on-demand to next-day deliveries. By leveraging data on real-time traffic, driver schedules, delivery priorities, and vehicle capacities, retail businesses can carve out the most efficient paths for their fleets.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

After record figures in 2021, conventional breakbulk (+1.1%) held up well in the first half of the year due to growth in the throughput of steel, the main commodity group within this segment. First, of course, 2022 was the year of the merger and therefore a historic year. Total roll-on/roll-off traffic saw an increase of 6.5%.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 3, 2021

Supply chains are continually disrupted by container shortages, a lack of air freight capacity, and movement restrictions implemented by governments to combat the pandemic. Target’s strategy is just one of many examples of retailers exploiting their brick-and-mortar assets to support ecommerce. The Dark Store Trend.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 29, 2018

According to CTM, the equipment offers a solution for more efficient transport in a country now facing a capacity shortage in road-based vehicle distribution. We plan to set a strong example for the rest of the world that our technology will improve efficiencies and cut out unnecessary waste in the largest auto market in the world.”.

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Logistics in War

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Of course we expect our people to be flexible, to ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’, and they did this magnificently. Staff Capacity. Ten years before the INTERFET operation, Army had considerable deployable logistic staff capacity and capability. Individual Readiness.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In place of long paper trails and maintenance schedules, machines with the capacity to communicate their needs and issues via the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) are becoming an essential component of effective processes. Of course, these possibilities are not without potential problems.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 16, 2018

As more consumers continue to buy groceries online, it has the potential to drive up the demand for roughly 35 million square-feet of United States-based cold storage space moving from retail stores to warehouses and distribution centers over the course of the next seven years. According to CBRE estimates, the U.S.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 21, 2019

A port like Gdansk is, for the moment, not used to maximum capacity. For example, BLG Group and STS Logistic have announced plans to jointly operate and develop Auto Terminal Slask in Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland. . Of course, this had a negative influence on carriers’ overall performance and planning.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 2, 2021

So in January, as players across the global freight industry were discussing how to navigate higher freight rates, delays, and capacity shortages , Freightos.com, a global freight booking platform and part of the Freightos Group, reached out to our customers to find out how logistics disruptions are impacting them.

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Logistics in War

AUGUST 28, 2021

It is in the light of these facts that the commander expects to shape his course during the supervision of the planned action.’ [1]. The first part of this paper applies examples to articulate concepts and ideas relevant to understanding the reality of war. From Sound Military Decision , United States Naval College, 1942.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

MARCH 10, 2020

Supply Chain = the whole granddaddy process comprising of all aspects in a product cycle, for example from picking of the fruit at a farm in Point A to delivering the fruit to the shelf at a store in Point B using all of the above-mentioned industries, businesses and services. By Deadweight Capacity. By number of vessels.

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Blue Grace Logistics

AUGUST 21, 2018

A good example of this was when NGO ForestEthics released a report that slammed retailers and logistics providers alike for using companies who fueled fleet trucks with diesel that was created with bitumen sands from Alberta which causes a considerable strain on the environment. . This creates a rift between corporate and consumer.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In making it possible that this rifle round be delivered ‘each day, every day’, his example implicitly recognised the control required to make Army’s part of the Defence logistics system work. No matter which military we are talking about, and as the now Chief of Defence Force remarked, successful logistics comes with the efforts of many.

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Freightos

MARCH 17, 2019

There’s one group of people who know the answer better than anyone – the logistics providers and BCOs who literally spend their lives on tenders. For example, logistics providers reported that unless they paid extra during capacity crunches, 25% of their shipments failed to make the first available sailing.

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