Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Looking to real-life examples for inspiration, we can ask, ‘Who does reverse logistics well?’ For regulators and the public, reverse logistics may be judged by how safe and how green the process is, for example, recycling products instead of throwing them into a landfill. Some industries experience more returns than others.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 12, 2023

Europe’s largest automated robotic parcel sorting system has been installed in Turkey by the leading Turkish-owned parcel distribution and postal services company Kuryenet. Each of the fast-moving sorting robots has a load capacity of up to 10kg and uses collision avoidance technologies to perform their route-based sorting tasks safely.

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Example: Retail giant Zara uses real-time data from its stores to adjust inventory dynamically. Embrace Automation for Efficiency Automation has proven to be a powerful tool for cutting supply chain costs across various industries. Solution: Build and maintain relationships with multiple suppliers for critical goods.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2024

It showcases the latest products, technologies, and services from over 900 exhibitors across various sectors and industries. From autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to collaborative robots (cobots) to industrial robots, robots are transforming the way goods are moved, stored, picked, packed, and shipped.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 24, 2015

When there is some sort of catastrophe that will no doubt lead straight into a public relations nightmare, you can bet there was some breakdown within communication between the many different companies involved. was a renewed, cross-sector, national effort to secure U.S. Looking to the Leaders.

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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

Industries such as semiconductors, electric vehicle (EV) batteries, and transportation equipment are at the forefront of reshoring efforts , leading to a fundamental shift in freight demand patterns. Automotive and industrial manufacturing is expanding in states like Michigan and Ohio. Midwest U.S. Southwest U.S.

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

On the one hand, the practice has become more sophisticated as people explore and learn application in contexts other than the original industrial examples. That book provides working examples of vertical linkage between organizational strategy and shop floor improvement efforts. This makes sense.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

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. KPI dashboards and reporting: This is linked to tip #3 above.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 15, 2022

Specifically, Honeywell sees six trends emerging in the warehouse and DC industries. Moving into the second half of 2022, we’re seeing heightened interest in long-proven warehouse automation systems that pick, pack, sort and carry packages throughout the facility. Increasingly aggressive adoption of proven automation technologies.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A slew of new digital technologies is disrupting supply chain operations, but none is having more of an impact on the industry than artificial intelligence (AI). Leading the field are chatbots, which allow text-based interactions, for example, between procurement managers and their suppliers’ systems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The warehousing and distribution industry is highly reliant on technology for its operations. This article will explore some of the key impacts of cyberattacks in the warehouse and distribution industry, as well as strategies businesses can employ to protect themselves from these threats.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

Partner management – before doing business with a new trading partner, there are all sorts of things a buyer of products or services wants to know. Third-party data – One example of the advantage of this category concerns third-party forecast data. Industry and government data can be used to increase forecast accuracy.

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Log-hub

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Additionally, compliance with regulationsespecially for industries like electronicsprotects businesses from legal risks. Furthermore, the process involves sorting, inspecting, and determining the best course of action for each item, which demands significant time and effort. This benefits everyone involved in the process.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 6, 2015

With major companies taking the initiative to develop and encourage the growth of robotics in logistics and manufacturing industries, the possibilities for the future are endless. For example, robotics could be used to prevent a truckload of merchandise leaving the warehouse if a wreck has occurred several miles away.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 3, 2020

To provide maximum trading flexibility they are usually geared and modern examples are fitted for the carriage of containers and grains. The shipments are sorted and placed on local vehicles for delivery. The intermodal containerization of cargo has revolutionized the supply chain logistics industry.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 30, 2019

If you stop to think about it, the construction industry supply chain is all around us — it’s the roads we drive on, our houses and commercial buildings, and all sorts of other infrastructure. So there are some unique considerations to how we look at things compared to other industries.”. Steve offers some examples.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You can just hear each other while Mikropakket’s 50-metre-long electrically powered sorting belt rapidly transports and distributes the various parcels to the thirty inclined discharge conveyors, known as chutes, in PostNL’s Nieuwegein warehouse. For the sorting solution, he approached several providers.

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Freightos

MARCH 4, 2020

The transformation of a tech giant and the freight industry’s current process of digitization share some key principles: whether selling AI tools and consulting or freight, the ability to adopt new technologies by listening to what customers want can be key to any transformation. This trend moved forward in exciting ways in 2019.

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Camelot 3PL Software

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Sorting and tracking those components, from raw materials to finished items, spare parts to toolkits means that someone must quickly and efficiently find out where what is needed can be found. A variety of digital tools can help industrial entities maximize their storage of all components needed. The Industrial. A New Vision.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2022

According to CEO Carol Tomé, “if that doesn’t drive productivity, I don’t know what will, and it will avoid all the mis-sorts. When a package gets mis-sorted and it goes into the wrong package car, that’s not a very good experience for our customer, and it’s actually just a drag on productivity.” With vacancy rates as low as 1.6

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Material Handling and Logistics

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

One area poised to get “smarter” is the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), as smart manufacturing will drive manufacturers to new heights. Across the logistics landscape, enterprises will derive very clear ROI as they continue to experiment with and develop best practices for the industrial Internet of Things.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2021

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. A warehouse worker that receives an advanced ship notice (ASN), for example, can use that information to make sure a dock door is ready to receive an inbound truck.

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Ship Monk

OCTOBER 14, 2020

First, no matter the size of your business, it’s imperative to have some sort of trajectory for every quarter, as well as the end of the year. It’s not realistic or even productive to put your small business against industry giants like Amazon, so start small and work your way up from there. By not comparing itself to the big fish!

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ShipLilly

JANUARY 13, 2022

For example, you may want to consider how your operations have gone over the last 12 months. Meanwhile the shipping industry is struggling to cope with the demands that have been placed on it. For example, container costs have risen ten-fold when compared to statistics recorded two years ago. Others have resorted to stockpiling.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 2, 2020

But it’s not just new technology shaping the future of logistics: It’s also emerging business models and new industry players. Without the need for a rich asset background, startups tend to focus on the “asset-light” parts of the value chain, for example by turning into digital freight forwarders.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

Global real estate firm Hines has announced the sale of the Royal Mail sorting warehouse in Edinburgh. The industrial building was acquired in 2019 by a fund sponsored by Hines and has been sold to ICG Real Estate for an undisclosed price.

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IoT World Today

MAY 24, 2021

The global supply chain, for example, has been hit hard over the past 15 months, creating supply shortages and imbalanced demand. As a result, industry in the U.S. Japan, for example, has allocated more than $4 billion to move operations out of China.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2023

The company is headquartered in India, has about 800 employees globally, and received a $154 million investment from majority owner Reliance Industries. I asked Manhattan about recent examples of customers utilizing the company’s WES functionality. Addverb Technologies recently entered my radar range.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2021

The person who gave the presentation I attended offered the example of a speech by late US President John F. As I explain in a YouTube video on this subject, I recently saw a good example of how a BHAG can galvanise a workforce and make a dramatic impact on productivity. For example, their increase in productivity was 217 percent.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 24, 2024

This has fuelled growth of the third-party outsourcing industry and expansion of scores of logistics service providers. For example, companies that have their own in-house vehicle fleet often struggle to deliver products on time. Flexibility andScalability. There is rarely too much information that you can gather.

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2017

What sort of targets would criminals be aiming for after stealing an identity? The Equifax leak, for example, can be ruinous when you consider what can be done with a little credit information. When someone takes control of your identity, they can wreak all sorts of havoc. How about truckloads of cargo. Not exactly.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 1, 2024

They’re trying to sort of retrofit or redesign existing warehouses to fit more in. So 85 maybe 90% depends on the sort of storage media that you’re using. Businesses merging and sort of at the same time rationalizing their warehouse network, but also trying to fit more in. So it’s a very common challenge.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 22, 2022

While non-conveyable items, including those that are oversized, irregularly shaped or heavy, have always been an issue for sorting centres, they’ve become a particular problem over the last two years, as customers have flocked to ordering nearly all household goods online. This is because a rug that is 12-foot-long (3.6

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 5, 2015

Let’s take a look into how RMAs function and some common examples of RMA policy. RMAs exist as reverse flows of products within the reverse logistics industry. Common Examples of RMA Policy. For example, a return of $100 on a single item easily outweighs the cost of losing $10,000 worth of orders. Product Quality.

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Ship Monk

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

At its core, the nimble third-party logistics ( 3PL ) company was created to compete with shipping giants and disrupt an industry plagued by slow turnaround, inefficiencies, and labor constraints. “I They are a shining example of business ingenuity, and we are proud to honor them.”. I was right. About ShipMonk.

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Logistics in War

MAY 2, 2024

The media, think-tanks and all sorts of commentators have followed Ukraine’s experience of invasion to find another prompt that something should be done. There are, of course, many other examples where assumptions had led to risks being accepted in advance of war, and preparedness failures occurred as a result.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

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.

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