The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The company’s robots are used to pick, pack, and sort items in warehouses and fulfillment centers. solution combines aggregated market data and customer data with advanced machine learning techniques to deliver short-term predictive freight market pricing specific to a company’s individual buy and sell behavior.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Pick” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide practical knowledge and advice on timely and important supply chain and logistics topics. Read more Editor’s Pick: Seven Guidelines for API Security in a Digitized Supply Chain Network.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The data from the research, combined with his military search and rescue experience, led to the creation of DroneUp. solution combines aggregated market data and customer data with advanced machine learning techniques to deliver short-term predictive freight market pricing specific to a company’s individual buy and sell behavior.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This is where big data technologies come into play. Big data for real-time optimizations in transport logistics. Logistics and transport service providers create enormous data records as they manage the flow of goods. These data include information such as types of goods, location, weight, size, origin, and destination.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Order Picking is the productive operation in a warehouse operation. Any warehouse design exercise that doesn’t include a rigorous approach to designing the processes and equipment layout for Order Picking, is suspect. When we Order Pick, we are essentially “manufacturing” what the client is going to pay us for.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 28, 2023

Key Takeaways: An Alternative to UPS and FedEx Mark Lavelle is the Chief Executive Officer at Maergo, a first-of-its-kind parcel delivery platform, purpose-built for branded direct-to-consumer delivery using modern technology and advanced data capabilities. In the podcast interview, Mark and Joe discuss alternatives to UPS and FedEx.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2021

Machine learning is a process by which learning algorithms are applied to large sets of data to create predictive models. First, DCs are a controlled environment for collecting and aggregating historical and real-time data – and data is a key to effective AI. AI For Robot and Human Orchestration.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2023

The division offers a wide range of products and solutions, including warehouse management systems, voice picking technology, and robotics automation. It focuses on providing innovative solutions and services for optimizing supply chain processes. Episode Sponsor: Greenscreens.ai The Greenscreens.ai

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Stord

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Analytics for Risk Management This isn't your grandmother's data analysis; we're talking about sophisticated pattern recognition that makes your shipping operation smoother than a freshly waxed surfboard. Carrier diversity has huge advantages, but how do you intelligently pick the right carrier?

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The updates include a dynamic picking control tower that provides real-time monitoring for picking operations in warehouses.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 21, 2022

3 retail delivery trends discussed: The marketplace problem – the marketplaces that specialize in retail delivery and pick-up service (usually groceries) are not good for retailers because they: Define and own the customer relationship and all the data, instead of the retailer.

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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. In our picking example, you would begin by analyzing the entire warehouse to identify where the bottleneck or constraint occurs. Is picking by paper slowing things down?

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 13, 2021

With visibility into truck arrivals and detailed tracking of in and out times, Opendock helps facilities reduce detention times, identify dock bottlenecks, and leverage data to build programs that improve performance. Insights including: planned pick up vs actual, loading/unloading time, dwell time, and detention. Jeff Booth LinkedIn.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

The ability to make data-driven decisions in real-time is invaluable for maintaining a high level of operational efficiency. Traditional slotting solutions require customized models, extensive engineering, measurement, and data collection. This leads us to the idea of Dynamic Slotting , an essential strategy for space optimization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Physical Layer: Transmits data over a physical connection. Data Link Layer: Handles data transfer between connected nodes. Network Layer: Manages data routing. Transport Layer: Ensures dependable data transfer. Presentation Layer: Translates between data formats. These seven layers are: 1.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 24, 2021

In 2010, he transitioned to a career in sales, cutting his teeth in door-to-door office supply sales for 15 months before accepting an opportunity with a leading technology and data provider in the transportation industry. Among drivers, the turnover is very high, and a good driver has her pick of top carriers and lanes.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 15, 2023

Trusted by 30 freight brands and growing, Digital Dispatch pricing starts as low as $90/month with solutions to connect all of your marketing and sales data to one place with bonus industry-specific marketing education for your whole team. 00:15:50] Picking podcast guests. [00:17:09] TIMESTAMPS [00:01:48] Joe’s career background. [00:03:51]

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2021

Combined with omnichannel offerings like buy online pick up in store (BOPIS) and curbside pickup, two-hour and same-day delivery round out a suite of order fulfillment services even Amazon cannot match. Critical data to track. Carrier invoice data (actual costs). Carrier delivery status (visibility/performance).

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2024

From autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to collaborative robots (cobots) to industrial robots, robots are transforming the way goods are moved, stored, picked, packed, and shipped. The robots can perform various tasks, such as transporting goods, picking orders, sorting items, and replenishing inventory.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 27, 2024

Top Time-Saving Fulfillment Center Solutions At a glance, for your ecommerce business to thrive you need a fulfillment center and fulfillment services outfitted with time-saving automation that make picking, packing, shipping, sorting, and managing more efficient.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Statista is a German online platform that specializes in data gathering and visualization. I’m going to discard the Statista data because they don’t give an explanation of how they arrived at their numbers. With those eliminations, the JLL and DOE data starts to converge – there is only a difference of about 20,000 warehouses.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Slotting a warehouse product is the same, for example, as placing your umbrella close to your front door at home, so it’s easy to pick it up and run when it’s raining, and you’re late for work. Still, without a doubt, picking is the operational regimen that will see the most significant impact. Faster Picking – Fewer Mistakes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 17, 2024

Erwin highlighted the importance of real-time data accuracy and visibility. People, technology, and data are very important for their journey. The importance of employee ownership in driving cultural transformation and their acceptance of data-driven decision making within the organization was also emphasized.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2022

For example, some newer robotic systems can efficiently automate small picking use cases such as in-store fulfillment of grocery orders. Many organizations have learned the hard way this is harder to accomplish when selecting and deploying a myriad of point solutions from multiple providers with multiple data models.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2024

Locus has introduced bots with larger payloads, and its value proposition now extends beyond each picking to include case picking. Task Interleaving—Picking is the most important activity in a warehouse. But when the need to get work out the door diminishes, it makes sense to interleave picking with other tasks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

From a supply chain digital perspective, the growth of ecommerce has: Ramped out the growth of each picking automation, including autonomous mobile robots. Descartes points out that for all but the simplest route planning problems, creating the best plan is not as simple as loading data and hitting the “optimize” button.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I quickly found myself drawn to the customer facing engineering – ensuring that we met performance promises and sharing data visualizations when we didn’t. We aimed to simplify the pick-pack-ship process, largely with software. Kiva’s co-founder Pete Wurman created The Amazon Picking Challenge inviting brilliant academic teams.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2024

Slotting improves picking efficiency by putting the most popular items in locations closer to the shipping docks and at a height on the rack that is easy for a picker to reach. For example, the WES may want the inventory picked from location X rather than location Y. With gray box AMRs, the WMS can send order lines.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Using alphanumeric logic can help you optimize simple picking strategies without having to implement a full-blown warehouse solution or warehouse mapping solution. Establish a layout based on order picking. Read on for a couple of techniques to help operators pick more efficiently: Pick by bin location.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For example, a distributor challenged to improve productivity, reduce the costs for picking low unit of measure (LUM) items, and increase picking accuracy added voice-directed, AI-driven optimization software to supplement their RF-based process. Maximize and extend the life of your current WMS.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Ask yourself, are you able to gauge fluctuating factors in your warehouse, such as pick density, case sizes, slotting arrangements and other variables? After that, regardless of what changes, your WMS has all the data it needs to inform your LMS of the expected outcomes. Pick stations. Case versus single unit picking.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A WES autonomously gathers real-time signals from across the warehouse, then applies artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data science to create plans and solve problems. A WES applies advanced AI and ML to gather data, identify exceptions, define resolutions and enact them, autonomously, in mere seconds.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

RF Guns Generate Massive Amounts of Data. Supply chain managers need real-time data to effectively manage operations. While supply chain software companies offer solutions that come with analytic solutions, the data used for the analytics is usually archived data. Archived data is not real-time.

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WorkWave

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Table of Contents [Open] [Close] Significance of Last-Mile Delivery Optimization Implementing Innovative Strategies The Role of Data Analytics Sustainability: A Necessary Focus 1. Data-driven approaches, such as predictive analytics, facilitate real-time adjustments in delivery operations. Electric and Alternative Fuel Vehicles 2.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 3, 2023

Direct access to customer data through D2C enables product improvement, innovation, and transition opportunities. Quicker response times, pick efficiency as well as packaging requirements are very different from what CPG operations are accustomed to.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The combination of the image, data from the WMS, and contextual rules, then allows the system to understand whether processes are being followed. A warehouse management system is a category of application software that supports receiving, put-away, picking, shipping, and value added services.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The priority of each pick based on shipping deadlines can compete with travel minimization and also evolves in its level of importance throughout the day. For example, in the morning, we may want to maximize picking density to improve the efficiency of our pickers without much concern about shipping deadlines. Dynamic Slotting.

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