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Warehouse Sorting Incorporates RFID Scanning

Logistics Business Magazine

OPEX® Corporation, a global leader in next generation automation for almost 50 years, is expanding the capabilities of its leading-edge ‘Sure Sort® Warehouse Automation’ technology to incorporate radio frequency identification (RFID) scanning to meet client needs and increase operational speed and efficiency. About OPEX.

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13 Warehouse Types: Definitions, Functions & Examples

Conger

Plenty of examples of warehousing. Perhaps the most prominent fulfillment center example is Amazon’s fulfillment centers. A cross-docking warehouse is where goods from inbound trucks are sorted and routed to outbound trucks for final delivery to the end-user. For example, take Co-op Partners Warehouse in St.

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FedEx Works to Monetize their Big Data

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, an intervention might consist of a team scooping up the packages at risk at a sort center and putting them in a van that will leave immediately. For example, seven-day ground is cheaper than express deliveries. The right injection point is not necessarily the FedEx sort center closest to the customer.

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How Artificial Intelligence is Boosting Supply Chain Performance

Logistics Bureau

Leading the field are chatbots, which allow text-based interactions, for example, between procurement managers and their suppliers’ systems. They can also answer text-based questions and pull up documents and files instantly. Because of its flexibility, companies are using AI to tackle all sorts of supply chain challenges.

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Why Effective RPA Relies on a Full Workflow of Automation

RPA Labs

Today, companies can use all sorts of technological tools to create more data-driven processing that puts time back in the pockets of freight moving America. . Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a technology that extracts text from image-based documents and changes it into editable text.

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Business-to-Anything Integration Supports Agile Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

There is much better access to all sorts of information that can be used to improve supply chain processes then there was even a few years ago. An EDI VAN enables the secure exchanges of electronic business documents, such as purchase orders and invoices, with trading partners—via electronic data interchange format.

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AI and AR: powering Logistics 4.0

Logistics Business Magazine

million items per week, picking, lifting and sorting online shopping orders. In the case of Ocado, for example, an electrical failure caused a fire to break out at the Andover facility, putting it out of action. These are examples of smaller-scale, less expensive, realistic investments which offer a much quicker return.