Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2024

Examples of Supply Chain Robots at MODEX 2024 Several exhibitors at MODEX 2024 showcased their innovative solutions for supply chain robotics, demonstrating the diversity and potential of this field. Here are some of the examples that caught our attention.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 24, 2022

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. For example, seven-day ground is cheaper than express deliveries. The right injection point is not necessarily the FedEx sort center closest to the customer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Locus Robotics is an example solution that decouples pickers from the robots, allowing for a greater degree of freedom that can drive worker productivity gains. Finally, Tompkins Robotics offers a parcel sorting robotics solution that offers dynamic sorting capabilities with flexibility not provided by a stationary high-speed unit sorter.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 9, 2019

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Conger

JULY 28, 2022

Plenty of examples of warehousing. Perhaps the most prominent fulfillment center example is Amazon’s fulfillment centers. A cross-docking warehouse is where goods from inbound trucks are sorted and routed to outbound trucks for final delivery to the end-user. For example, take Co-op Partners Warehouse in St.

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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. In a TMS, a shipper tenders to a carrier for a lane.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Leading the field are chatbots, which allow text-based interactions, for example, between procurement managers and their suppliers’ systems. Because of its flexibility, companies are using AI to tackle all sorts of supply chain challenges. AI-based applications can extract data from multiple sources and provide answers in seconds.

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The Lean Thinker

OCTOBER 8, 2019

As in the example above, a target condition should also be testable. By stating what we will observe or measure when the target condition is met, we are constructing a “unit test” of sorts. Software developers will recognize this as “test driven development” – start with the unit test, then write the code.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

One example from healthcare involves using generative AI integrated with Oracle’s electronic health record (EHR) solution to create a Clinical Digital Assistant that enables providers to use voice commands to produce rough drafts of new patient forms that would be reviewed but would still save significant labor. Uber has an ecosystem.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2023

Addverb was exhibiting multiple technologies at ProMat including Medius, the company’s multi-level shuttle system, Sortie, an autonomous put-wall sorting system, and Zippy, and ATV sortation system. I asked Manhattan about recent examples of customers utilizing the company’s WES functionality.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Originating at China’s Nanjing University in 1993 as a sort of anti-Valentine’s Day, Singles’ Day is celebrated by unmarried people in China on the 11th November. For example, a system such as the 3D vertical sorter from Libiao Robotics enables retailers to handle exceptional volumes of items even at peak times.

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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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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.”

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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. Study the Process’s Operating Patterns.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

For example, the rise of RaaS ( Robots as a Service ) within the warehouse means that 3rd party devices (robots) are integrated into your environment and actively streaming your data while actually owned and maintained by an outside party. It ended up costing TFI about $6 million in quarterly operating revenue.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Companies are outsourcing all sorts of things – call centers, janitorial services, accounting, IT services, and the list goes on. For example, in contract logistics, the 3PL makes use of a warehouse management system so that they can do the job efficiently. The right IT is critical.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 4, 2023

For example, it’s critical to identify where to focus advertising and how to allocate it for specific products across countries. Lacking automation and monitoring capabilities for harvesting, grading, sorting, kitting, and financial billing can drive up costs. Getting past disparate systems and centralizing data was critical.

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10xLogistics

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There are a lot of conversations happening relative to all sorts of strategies for supply chains (and no lack of consultants who want to sell you on the latest and greatest ideas). Everyone uses the iPhone as an example of this and so some may think only Apple can do this. Let me use another example: The Kitchenaid Standmixer.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

An iGPU (integrated graphic processing unit) is a current example. As an example, if we have congested lanes, the system will automatically flag that we have a potential risk of delay based. For example, we’re working on telling the solution that it has a budget. During COVID constraints were popping up all over the place.

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The Lean Thinker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

He is getting the response he expects – people are not offering thoughts (other than his) for improvements, though they are experimenting in stealth mode in a sort of continuous improvement underground. They are working to support each other emotionally as well as running the plant as they know it should be run in spite of this behavior.

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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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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The general ledger (GL) is the recordkeeping system used to sort, store, and summarize a company’s financial transactions over time. One of the best practices to ensure integrity, even though it is old school, is the segregation of duties, for example, between the ability to raise a GL journal and approving the journal.

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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 Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2023

Shuttle systems with the ability to store and handle a wide range of item sizes and shapes; AGVs/AMRs with the ability to easily scale up and scale down for changing volumes; and pocket sorters with efficient sorting and sequencing capabilities are a few of the systems that are addressing these requirements.

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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. Japan, for example, has allocated more than $4 billion to move operations out of China. In 2020, for example, a conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan created supply chain issues downstream.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For example, by stacking containers higher you can make use of vertical space, and mobile shelving units can be useful for seasonal products. When printing your packing slips, simply sort by bin location. For example, the old handhelds took 20 to 60 seconds to load a list of lots. Use space-saving containers or shelving.

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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 outbound shipments are trucked to appropriate regional terminals, where they are unloaded.

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The Lean Thinker

JANUARY 25, 2024

In this working example, asking the shop floor workforce to fix this problem would be futile. The shop floor can’t, for example, transition from a push scheduling system to pull on their own. Nor can they simply leave it to the working levels to sort it out – not if they expect it to work for any length of time.

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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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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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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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ShipLilly

JANUARY 13, 2022

For example, you may want to consider how your operations have gone over the last 12 months. For example, container costs have risen ten-fold when compared to statistics recorded two years ago. The journey from store to port to the doorstep is fraught with all sorts of difficulties.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For the world of logistics, and in particular for e-commerce warehouses and postal hubs, the Black Friday period – which coincides with the beginning of the peak season – represents a challenge in the fields of packaging, labelling, sorting and shipping. In England, for example, sales during the month of October 2020 represented 28.1%

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In warehouse environments, AI-powered robotics and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are revolutionizing order fulfillment processes by handling tasks such as picking, packing, and sorting with unmatched efficiency.

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Material Handling and Logistics

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

For example, when shipping produce, it is essential to keep the product at a certain temperature throughout the supply chain, so by installing sensors on the container of fruit or vegetables, both the seller and buyer can ensure the load maintains a proper temperature while in transit.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 27, 2024

Top Time-Saving Fulfillment Center Solutions At a glance, for your ecommerce business to thrive you need a fulfillment center and fulfillment services outfitted with time-saving automation that make picking, packing, shipping, sorting, and managing more efficient. ShipMonk’s 3PL software , for example, is time-saving automation at its finest.

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