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What is Order Picking?

Logistics Bureau

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 Past, Present, and Future of Technology in the Warehouse

Logistics Bureau

There’s another supervisor, and another over there, although you can hardly see her for all the operatives moving among the pick faces in that aisle. By automating tasks like picking, packing and inventory management businesses can be more productive and reduce human error.

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. It’s hard to imagine that many still need to shuffle paper documents around using pigeonholes.

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Document Extraction Bot

RPA Labs

Whether your company is a domestic freight broker, an international freight forwarder , an ocean carrier , or a trucking fleet, you probably rely on your employees to do data entry, document processing, shipment tracking, and invoicing. RPA Labs’ Document Bots allow for seamless system- to-system interaction with a no-code interface.

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How to be a successful freight broker: 3 tips for driving value through bundling

FreightWaves SONAR

These services include much more than finding a truck to pick up and deliver freight. Most freight brokerages offer visibility, document management and payment tools for their customers and carriers. Freight brokerages offer a varied range of services and solutions to shippers.

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Pitfalls of digitalisation in shipping and freight

Shipping and Freight Resource

Whether digital or manual, the business of shipping involves a lot of documentation. Or forgetting the minus in -25° C when submitting the shipping documents to the shipping line or port. Nail Polish : day to day product present in almost all households and should be harmless for shipment. Image from : APL.

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NRF 2024: Supply Chain Data

Logistics Viewpoints

The usual themes were still very present as solution providers and retailers alike were more than happy to talk about omni-channel, mobility, robotics, and machine learning, to name a few. In some cases, a customer can cancel or change the shipping location after the item has been picked and packed.