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Increase Picking Density with Mezzanines, Pick Towers, and Automation

Supply Chain Brain

Warehouse operators can increase the density of their pick operations by installing pick towers and mezzanines within their current facilities, boosting throughput inside their existing building.

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3 CRM Tips to Protect Your Profits During a Freight Recession

IFS Blogs

Learn how to survive a freight recession and protect your profits with these three powerful CRM strategies.

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Bridging the Decision Abyss

Supply Chain Brain

A call to action for supply chain and procurement leaders to demand better intelligence platforms.

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Trucker's snowy slide into lane divider: Preventable or not?

Overdrive Online

Winter had arrived to the dark stretch of divided highway where trucker John Doe approached the crest of a hill. He lost control of the rig, crashing into a steel lane divider with significant fender damage. Was the crash "preventable?" Or not.

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Rethinking warehouse work culture: Can automation create better workplaces?

Heico Sandee, CEO of Smart Robotics, explores how automation redefines warehouse culture. By shifting repetitive tasks to skill-based roles, automation improves safety, fosters collaboration, and makes warehousing more appealing to today’s workforce.

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Maersk Again Pauses Red Sea Operations After Houthi Attack

Supply Chain Brain

The company said that its vessel, the Maersk Hangzhou, was targeted by Houthis in attack boats December 31.

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Chinese Luxshare Buys iPhone Assembly Plant from Taiwanese Pegatron

Supply Chain Brain

The world’s second-largest iPhone manufacturer will pay $300 million to Pegatron to acquire a 62.5% stake in the company's Shanghai facility.

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5 Supply Chain Best Practices Predictions for 2024

MercuryGate

Order and shipment volumes slowed significantly since the record levels of 2020 and 2021, and excess carrier capacity abounds as we close out 2023. The economy improved somewhat, but it isn’t roaring to life. Inflation continues to worry consumers. Heading into 2024, adopting forward-looking supply chain best practices prepares your organization for the next turn in a volatile environment.

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India Truckers Strike Threatens Food, Fuel, Goods Supplies

Supply Chain Brain

The truckers launched the strike January 1 in protest against the newly enacted criminal law which extends the jail term for hit-and-run cases to a maximum of 10 years.

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Pallet Shuttle System is Better, Bigger, Easier

Logistics Business Magazine

A Movu Robotics atlas pallet shuttle system gives leading logistics service provider Kris De Leeneer (KDL) approximately 45,000 storage locations and the capacity to manage a potential throughput of up to 11,000 pallet movements a week. Importantly, this automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) fulfils KDL’s need for flexibility by allowing pallet throughput to be increased simply by adding more shuttles, while the modular rack can be extended to increase capacity to help futureproof the f

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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U.S. Passes China as South Korea’s Top Export Market

Supply Chain Brain

South Korea sold $11.3 billion of goods to the U.S. in December 2023, beating out China by roughly $400 million.

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Logistics Firms Merge into New Company

Logistics Business Magazine

J. & J. Denholm Limited (the Denholm Group) is excited to announce that Denholm Global Logistics and Good Logistics, two renowned logistics leaders, have merged to form Denholm Good Logistics. The creation of this merger marks the pinnacle of the integration of Good Logistics and Denholm Global Logistics (which incorporates Hamilton Shipping Container Services).

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Tesla Beats Q4 Delivery Estimates

Supply Chain Brain

The American car company was able to deliver a record number of vehicles during Q4, helping the organization hit its 2023 target of 1.8 million automobiles.

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New CEO Appointed at Palletforce

Logistics Business Magazine

EV Cargo’s Palletforce has promoted its current COO Mark Tapper (pictured) to CEO of Palletforce as part of a series of executive appointments to strengthen its leadership team, continue to deliver stability and consistency, and drive ongoing member success and service excellence. Tapper joined Palletforce in 2016, initially serving as Operations Director before being promoted to COO in 2021.

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.

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Oklahoma Receives First Three Made-In-State EVs

NGT News

The state of Oklahoma has received its first three made-in-Oklahoma electric vehicles from Canoo as an innovative part of the state’s ongoing fleet modernization initiative. At a combined cost of $119,850, these three Lifestyle Delivery Vehicles (LDVs) are the first of their kind in the state fleet, with one each assigned to the Office of […] The post Oklahoma Receives First Three Made-In-State EVs appeared first on NGT News.

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Project Logistics: The Basics You Should Know

MTS Logistics

Project logistics takes place successfully all over the world everyday thanks to a mix of experienced personnel, intense coordination, planning, and savvy use of logistics technology. Project logistics is a very complex field and covers many great aspects. Simply put, Project logistics is the transportation processes of cargo with characteristics such as large, heavy, bulky, out-of-gauge, unusually shaped, high-value and critical items.

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Vicinity Motor Corp. Forms VMC 1200 Distribution Agreement with Jack Carter

NGT News

Vicinity Motor Corp., a North American supplier of commercial electric vehicles, has signed a new distribution agreement with Jack Carter Commercial Vehicles to open Jack Carter VMC Trucks, a new VMC-specific dealership, by the owners of the Jack Carter Chevrolet Buick GMC Corvette dealership for the Alberta South territory in Canada. Jack Carter Chevrolet Buick […] The post Vicinity Motor Corp.