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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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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. The right injection point is not necessarily the FedEx sort center closest to the customer. The customer benefits by paying for the service that best meets their needs.

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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.

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What is Delivery as a Service? And Does Your Company Need It?

WorkWave

In the contemporary competitive market, maintaining speedy and reliable delivery service has become essential to meet rising customer expectations. Robotics and automation are transforming sorting fulfillment centers and warehouses, improving operational precision, and reducing manual labor costs.

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4 Benefits Shippers Realize when Transportation EDI is Utilized in a TMS

GlobalTranz

Exchanging documents electronically improves transaction speed and visibility while decreasing the amount of money you spend on manual processes. Finally, there is also resources needed in your transportation department, since there no longer has to be an employee present to handle these sorts of tasks.

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Bowe Group formed to offer end-to-end automation solutions

Logistics Business Magazine

BÖWE SYSTEC, headquartered in Augsburg (Germany), has made a global name for itself with process automation solutions built around inserting, letter and parcel sorting as well as intralogistics. BOWE SYSTEC will represent the traditional document and mail processing segment. BÖWE SYSTEC has now become the BOWE GROUP.

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Still Think Dangerous Goods is Just Paperwork and Labels?

Talking Logistics

This includes how they must be classified, packed, marked, labelled and documented – as well as the dangerous goods training which must be completed by the people packing and sending them. E-commerce is only adding to the complexity and challenge, as small mom-and-pop shops and individuals sell all sorts of dangerous goods online (e.g.,