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The Effects of Global Warming on Ocean Shipping

MTS Logistics

The once-tranquil seas are undergoing noticeable transformations, with the impacts of rising temperatures affecting maritime operations. The erratic Arctic environment necessitates specialized navigation and infrastructure, forcing shipping companies to exercise caution when entering these uncharted territories.

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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

That processing event determines when the goods need to be delivered to the next stop. The company moves 46,000 shipments per year using dry van, temperature-controlled trucks, hoppers, live haul, and other trucks as well. It was quickly determined that a procurement event was necessary just to set a baseline.

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What manufacturers need to know about IIoT

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Exercise trackers like Fitbit or Garmin are part of an IoT network that collects and analyzes data from objects – people. This can help to detect possible dangers like temperature fluctuations, power loss, water intrusion, and other potentially damaging events. Energy efficiency and cost-saving.

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Warehouse Product Slotting: The Ultimate Guide

Logistics Bureau

It also stands to reason that when you undertake a slotting exercise, you should think about it from the perspective of these activities. In any event, expect to draw on much of the data captured in your sales or ordering history and SKU master data records. Product Slotting: Not an Event, But a Habit. Grouping Product Families.

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Logistics Challenges Involved in Home Services and How to Overcome Them

Locus

For most industries, it means delivering a packaged good on time, more so if delivery is time and temperature-sensitive. This can prove to be a daunting exercise without the right software and tools. Logistical challenges faced by home service businesses. Last-mile operations have different meanings for different sectors.

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Keeping food on the table no matter the weather

World Food Programme Logistics

Photo: WFP/Alessandro Abbonizio But with increasing temperatures and less recorded rainfall in recent years, asset creation in Kitui County is not enough to guarantee food security for farmers like Kavemba. Kavemba’s food security has increased with the creation of risk reduction assets such as zai pits and water pans on her farm.

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Who’s Using Blockchain in 2020, and How?

Logistics Bureau

With all movements of produce recorded immutably in a distributed ledger, tracing quality-compromised food or commodities back to the source can be achieved in hours, rather than the days, or even weeks, otherwise required for such an exercise. Storage temperature. Big Names are Backing Blockchain. Customs clearance.