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Automation To Help Smooth Singles’ Day Peak

Logistics Business Magazine

Originating at China’s Nanjing University in 1993 as a sort of anti-Valentine’s Day, Singles’ Day is celebrated by unmarried people in China on the 11th November. Of course, this enormous spike in volumes puts retailers’ supply chains and distribution networks under extreme pressure. billion (€120 billion).

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Pioneering the Future: Logistics Insights for 2025

Logistics Business Magazine

“Businesses that scenario plan effectively will stay the course. This synergy enables optimised delivery routes, minimises sorting and delivery errors, and provides real-time alerts for any disruptions. “UPS exemplifies this transformation with its Smart Package Smart Facility initiative.

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Kentucky Fulfillment Center & 3PL Solutions

Ship Monk

We also harness the latest automation like Autosorter technology to sort packages for carriers more quickly and accurately than traditional 3PLs. In short, if you have a growing ecommerce brand, OF COURSE! Can Our Kentucky Order Fulfillment Center Help You?

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What are Reverse Logistics?

Logistics Bureau

Hidden Opportunities for Supply Chain Cost Reductions Of course hidden costs, if you can find them, mean hidden opportunities. Much depends upon the nature of your supply chain operation of course. Note that this may require extra training for people who will do the sorting. Some industries experience more returns than others.

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The History of Fleet Route Optimisation in Logistics

Logistics Bureau

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. Is Your Fleet Routing the Best It Can Be?

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The Cancer of Fear

The Lean Thinker

This, of course, gets reflected in the conversations throughout the organization. He is getting the response he expects – people are not offering thoughts (other than his) for improvements, though they are experimenting in stealth mode in a sort of continuous improvement underground. Asking for help?

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Road Safety: See it, Say it, Sorted

Logistics Business Magazine

Feats such as reversing the course of the river, reclaiming land from Lake Michigan and building the first skyscrapers followed. Accidents trigger a report and workflows are automatically assigned, using ‘Connected Training’ which has customised courses and quizzes. Workers flocked from everywhere, warehousing and stockyards boomed.

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