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Cross-Docking: The Logistics Shortcut That’ll Save You Time and Money

ECW

Ensure every outbound truck is loaded to maximize capacity to cut costs and lower emissions. The Real-World Impact of Smart Logistics Case Study: Neiman Marcuss Cross-Docking Transformation Neiman Marcus, the luxury retailer, revamped its logistics strategy by increasing its cross-docking operations from just 5% to an impressive 65%.

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Forklift Safety Training: The Ultimate Guide

Conger

This is the ultimate guide to forklift safety training. By the end of this article, you’ll learn: Why forklift operator safety training is important. OSHA’s training requirements. Where to get forklift operator training. How to develop your own in-house forklift training program. Let’s dive in. Table of Contents.

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Potential Strike Risk Looms Again as Automation Threatens Contract Negotiations

MTS Logistics

To illustrate, an automated gantry crane is capable of both stacking and transporting containers to a truck or train. Automated gantry cranes may be operated either by software or by a worker situated in a remote location, who is responsible for guiding containers onto a truck chassis or train.

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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

In the late 1980s and early 1990s Colin Fox, an early consultant in the world of flow production, had led a series of study missions to Japan that engaged Boeing’s top 100 or so leaders. These study missions were quite eye-opening for the participants. During the break, work teams were expected to do some homework assignments.

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Blue Yonder Pivots to a Partnership Strategy

Logistics Viewpoints

In ARC’s last market study on the global transportation management market , Chris Cunnane, the study author, made estimates of system integration (SI) revenues as a percentage of total TMS revenues for all software companies in the market. Training has significantly improved, there is more and more information around training.

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Study raises hopes for increasing digitalisation

Logistics Business Magazine

“Production in many industries is becoming ever more flexible, with greater options, and at the same time, increasing demands on deadlines for supply capacity. Typically, stackers (95%) are still used for transport in these cases, followed by tugger trains and towing vehicles (34% each) and lastly DTSs (25%). of the surveyed companies.

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Polycrisis, Antifragility, and What’s Missing from Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

There’s an older term now being applied to supply chains for this capacity: antifragility. A McKinsey study found that 90% of supply chain leaders expected to transform their planning systems. However, this learning requires large volumes of data to “train” the models. There’s a new word for this current state: polycrisis.