Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

They wanted to stop me because I and my teammate Ralph were off course. We turned our bikes around, coasted down the hill, and got back on course. Why is that still the case despite the fact that all sorts of technology solutions have existed for years? It turns out they didn’t want to high-five me for cycling up a 3-mile hill.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 5, 2016

Today, robots can be found in sorting centers, warehouses and plants, as well as in the form of mail carriers such as drones. These non-STEM subjects include managerial courses such as supply management communications and purchasing materials management. Robotics & Automated Machinery. With over 1.1

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10xLogistics

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

However, it is bigger than that from a nationwide perspective and I had the privilege of listening to a very insightful presentation given by Eric Johnson (Twtr: @AmShipEric), research director and IT editor at American Shipper at the Jacksonville CSCMP roundtable event in October. Now, of course the key question is what does this mean?

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10xLogistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Has anyone noticed recently that your linkedin feed is just full of a bunch of technology looking for a reason to exist and all sorts of conventions and other events people are attending? Of course, this is true every year and it leads to inaction and lack of innovation. If you are infected with FOBO you will stop everything.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Remember when receiving a parcel was an event? Now, of course, parcels are a daily occurrence, and our attitude towards packaging is somewhat different – more enlightened. Many of these, of course, are entirely positive, but what social media really feeds on is the epic fail, and gross mismatches between box and product rate highly.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The American and Canadian militaries believe that the balloon was for surveillance, while the Chinese government said it was a civilian meteorological research airship that had blown off course. The prototype will ideally be developed into an inexpensive piece of sorting equipment that can be easily integrated into a MRF’s current technology.

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The Logistics Academy

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Of course supply chains have for a long time now been driven by statistics and quantifiable performance indicators. But the sort of analytics which are really revolutionizing industry today – real time analytics of huge, rapidly growing and very messy unstructured datasets – were largely absent.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The next step was to take the planning slips for each postal code, or two or three postal codes if we knew they were geographically close together, and sort them into piles, representing nominal routes, totting up the weights of the orders to see when a route was maxed out. Could Drones Ease Road Congestion?

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

You are not alone, especially as in the time since we first penned this article, one huge and unforeseen event has raised awareness of the global importance of this vital sector—and shown it to be an attractive career choice. That event was the global COVID-19 pandemic, which erupted during the first half of 2020. Networking.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Dumping or eliminating waste and debris produced during the event is another. Of course, the modern supply chain ties into all of this, as well. Food, water, fuel — it all ends up scarce just before and after a major event. Then, of course, there’s the facilitation of hazardous chemicals before, during and after the disaster.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Fortunately, these events are cataloged automatically to ensure merchandise moves the least amount of times within the warehouse, which reduces length of time in preparing a shipment and helps workers adhere to dock schedules. A flexible system allows shippers to quickly sort existing stock and compile shipments on smaller units.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The first steps, of course, are to understand the challenges you face, prioritise them for action, and consider the resources and help you need to meet and overcome them. There are, of course, several ways to achieve a logistics knowledge infusion. Of course, as an enterprise grows, it becomes harder to coordinate all the moving parts.

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Partners need to be empowered and have full visibility to shift suppliers, manufacturers or even global production locations based on uncontrollable events at a moment’s notice. Industry events, whether held online or in person, are also great opportunities to discover new partners and connect with new vendors outside your standard network.”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

Sales of autonomous mobile robots and driverless lift trucks are taking off but the game-changing intralogistics technologies we will see at IMHX 2022 go much further than the simple replacement of man by machine, says event director, Rob Fisher. Of course, other forms of robotic and automated intralogistics technology are taking off too.

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Turvo

MAY 21, 2020

Better Responsiveness Based on the Context of Events Major challenges arise in supply chain management when a problem goes unchecked. Seeing all activities in the context of events ensures your full network of trading partners in the supply chain knows what is and is not happening and why.

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Conger

JULY 20, 2020

Of course not. 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. The course will most likely have end-of-section quizzes to test your knowledge.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 8, 2024

A watch a mechanical one at least must be designed with all sorts of springs, wheels and weights to make it run just right: not too fast, not too slow. This of course constitutes a considerable workload, but if your organisation has the resources to commit to developing and running such a program, the benefits are considerable.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 13, 2018

If your requirements are FTL B2B shipments, you need a trucking company with that sort of capacity. Is there a system in place to alert management when drivers divert course? For your urban customers, the trucking company might need to deploy a fleet of smaller trucks or even vans. Are trucks secured?

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Dedola Global Logistics

JULY 26, 2019

It was a great event. I think we try to differentiate between a lot of industry conferences, particularly ones put on by mostly associations, which tend to be driven a little bit more on a sort of long form format and sort of traditional, you know, same set of speakers each time. Stephen Dedola: .

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Ship Monk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

You turn to crowdfunding, of course! Your job will be to heavily promote your page via email, events, social media, or any other method you can think of. Dimensional scanners, robotics, sorting machines, and multi-point quality control checks ensure lightning-speed fulfillment and order accuracy. What do you do?

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Smart contracts are based on blockchain technology that allow specific business events to trigger payments. The GSCP is meant to provide the industry with a single registry, with the tokens designed to foster “all kinds of transactions related to container handling” within the platform, Blockshipping said.

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Penske Move Ahead

JUNE 7, 2019

That is more than 100 million hours of donated labor across the network over the course of a year.”. The associates created meals and separated and sorted items for deliveries to hungry families. The event was promoted in team meetings, through flyers and emails and word of mouth among associates.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 6, 2018

Whether it’s helping supply chain professionals boost their knowledge or organizing public supply chain coaching events, you’re a firm believer in helping others through (in)formal education. I was often called stupid, sent off to detention and got into all sorts of trouble. There’s the physical challenge aspect, of course.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 23, 2018

When you are into that sort of quantity, you need a system if you really want to optimise how you are doing it, and TMS is what we are using.”. It is easy to cut logistics costs if you deliver things to the plant every two months but, of course, your inventory goes out of control and there are other problems.” .

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Penske Move Ahead

JUNE 7, 2019

That is more than 100 million hours of donated labor across the network over the course of a year.”. The associates created meals and separated and sorted items for deliveries to hungry families. The event was promoted in team meetings, through flyers and emails and word of mouth among associates.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 8, 2023

You must evaluate the option in detail to know if it presents more pros than cons or vice versa. TMS: Is it the Same as Outsourcing?

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 13, 2018

Of course, Volvo is not alone in these kinds of ambitions. Nurse says that applying AI decision logic to exception management to guide human managers as they deal with unexpected events will be vital as OEMs adapt their business models. That sort of chutzpah doesn’t exist in any other supply chain software company. .

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2018

We can then act and optimise so that we are prepared if we have major changes in the orders or if we have disruption at the port or through adverse weather events,” said Koch. “We We have contingency measures one or two weeks ahead and a plan of how to cope.”.

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Automotive Logistics

JUNE 19, 2018

To take one example, there is a greater shift to automated guided vehicles in factories and warehouses, which of course has an impact on the need for forklift truck drivers. It was not a question of salary – 90% of the issue was what sort of truck they would be driving.”. Subbe said there had been concerns over how industry 4.0

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Shipping and Freight Resource

APRIL 30, 2020

There are several stories of seafarers having missed important life events – marriages, the birth of children, death of loved ones, etc. However, until this is done and sorted out in totality, in this time of uncertainty, what can we do? Several seafarers have been stuck onboard above and beyond their normal working periods.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And of course, Oracle with their investments in Cloud computing, Internet of Things technology, and artificial intelligence can be used to minimize inputs while increasing productivity. Generative AI is a major topic at all the enterprise events this year. This is a relatively minor piece of new functionality.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2019

However, I think we may soon stop talking about supply chains as end-to-end sequences of events, because, in many cases, the two ends appear to be joining up. After all, the last few years have been full of talk about integrating supply chains from end-to-end. Happily, though, that’s not something you can expect to change in 2020.

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Ship Monk

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Just like how bees keep the bloodline going by pollinating as many flowers as possible (up to 5,000 per day, to bee exact), online businesses work best when their eggs are in all sorts of different baskets. Of course, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution. And that wraps up tonight’s battle royale!

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Amazon, of course, has been leading the way in e-commerce sales for the better part of the year as quarantine and lock down restrictions forced many shoppers to go online, rather than in-store. 2020 has been different from the norm in just about every single way imaginable, so it should come as no surprise that freight is going off the rails.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

I often think of that story when I ponder the impact of “robots” of all sorts on jobs and thus society itself. There are many estimates out there about the impact of robots all sorts on employment, some more gloomy than others, but most to my mind rather depressing. Of course we all need to up our game.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

And of course most can’t. Of course, consumer brand companies are especially at risk from being tarred with an anti-sustainability brush. Of course we all need to up our game. Who can really get control of that is the question. Jade. Posted on: Oct, 02 2016.

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The Lean Thinker

JANUARY 17, 2025

In a traditional kaizen event there is usually some kind of todo list for keeping track of progress implementing the ideas of the team. A common assumption in many continuous improvement efforts is that if people participate in enough of these kaizen events they will experience a mindset shift. What Are We Trying to Achieve?

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