Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) helps us search and sort for information, write proposals and emails, and records meetings and converts into notes - but is it ready to help us design Distribution Centers and Warehouses?

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DC Velocity

AUGUST 6, 2018

Package sorting equipment manufacturer buys Post Integrated Solutions to meet rising e-commerce demand.

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The Lean Thinker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

I am sitting in on a daily production status meeting. The site has been in trouble meeting its schedule, and the division president is on the call. In a completely different organization, there were pre-meetings before the meeting with the chief of engineering. The call ends. This is understandable.

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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. The right injection point is not necessarily the FedEx sort center closest to the customer. The customer benefits by paying for the service that best meets their needs.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In this article, we explore these hurdles and the strategies businesses can employ to meet growing demand for fast, free shipping while maintaining operational efficiency. Today, customers anticipate free shipping from all online retailers, pressuring smaller businesses to meet this demand without sacrificing profitability.

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 1, 2023

The consultants set up their laptops and pretended to produce all sorts of presentations, though the presentations were actually jargon, buzzwords and gibberish. They demanded all sorts of information about customers, sales, products, and market sectors while they worked their PowerPoint far into the night.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 1, 2024

United Arrows, one of Japan’s leading fashion retail brands, has seen a significant increase in the efficiency of the order sortation process at its Tokyo distribution hub following the introduction of a mobile robot-based sorting system supplied and installed by LiBiao Robotics.

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Ship Monk

JULY 12, 2023

Whether that was scaling up to meet the demands of consumers trapped at home during Covid, dealing with supply chain issues, or now finding themselves in a much softer consumer market, change is the only thing that has been consistent. What advice can you offer towards “holding the line” this year to ensure success this year and beyond?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 4, 2023

CPG companies must maintain tight control over inventory to conserve cash while ensuring there’s sufficient stock to meet production schedules or forecasted customer demand. Lacking automation and monitoring capabilities for harvesting, grading, sorting, kitting, and financial billing can drive up costs.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Driver coaching used to take days, with weekly meetings typical. similar news Samsara Launches Sustainable Fleet Management Solution The post Road Safety: See it, Say it, Sorted appeared first on Logistics Business. “We handle bulky products and heavy payloads,” Beveridge informs, “there’s little automation.

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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. Also, at particularly busy times such as the period around Singles’ Day, additional sorting chutes can be added to cope with very high traffic sorting demands.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Real-time product or order sorting. Benefits of Put-to-Light Systems: High-speed order sorting capability. The final result is technology that you can rely on to meet your distribution needs. These systems are highly flexible and the technology comes with the ability to plan, control and analyze volumes of orders picked.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The integrated business plan is at the heart of balancing projected demand with the capacity needed to meet that demand. Automation means the planners don’t have to sort through reams of data to see the problem; the problem surfaces in a user-friendly way. But then stuff happens.

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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.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 30, 2024

Kuehne+Nagel has introduced a new robotised order sorting system from Libiao Robotics at its multi-client Châtres warehouse, situated south-west of Paris, France. These collaborative robotic technologies, “are designed to meet customers’ needs while focusing on the well-being and efficiency of employees”, adds Vandrome.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The new system, called Merlin2, will be located at Yodel’s Shaw sorting centre and is the business’ second automated out-of-gauge sortation facility, following the success of the original Merlin which was introduced in Wednesbury (West Midlands) in 2019. Shaw is one of Yodel’s three central sort centres. long and 0.9m

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 11, 2024

Since 2022, Libiao Robotics’ sorting solutions have been successfully implemented across various CJ Logistics centers , achieving highly efficient and reliable operations. Additionally, the fully modular solution allows the sorting system to be quickly relocated and expanded, enhancing capacity based on the existing sorting system.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The modular design of the Flowsort sorting equipment allows system integrators and conveyor manufacturers to purchase the sorting modules that fit their clients’ unique requirements.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Companies from around the world introduced solutions leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics to improve sorting, handling, and warehousing processes. This solution addresses the rising demand for faster and more accurate parcel sorting, particularly within e-commerce and postal sorting centers.

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20Cube Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Freight forwarders are responsible to ship consignment from one international destination to another, the consignment can be all sort of materials, from wood, clothing, to logs, flowers anything, even bulk liquid transportation. It is specifically designed to meet the criteria of carrying the bulk substance.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2022

This will be OPEX’s first time exhibiting at IMHX and the first time the company’s Sure Sort robotic sorting system will be on display at a trade show in the UK. Sure Sort will be on display at IMHX 2022 Stand 5D115 where attendees can interact with OPEX operators to better understand how the system can benefit their business.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

To meet this growth plan, Fives, a long-time DHL partner, will be in charge of automating the entire facility: a new 25,000 sq m hub, which will open in early 2023 at Segro Park Coventry Gateway, located south of Coventry Airport. The recent growth of the UK market is one of the fastest in the world.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Fashion logistics is increasingly shifting to omnichannel operations to meet the needs of retail and e-commerce. These systems can decouple picking from order fulfillment by storing items in dynamic buffers, then sorting them into desired sequences through matrix sortation.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2019

This applies to pharmaceuticals that are characteristically toxic, or that meet the definition of certain “listed” wastes, such as P and U listed acutely hazardous substances. Upon being “discarded,” those pharmaceuticals become solid waste, triggering management obligations under the Resource Conservation and Restoration Act (RCRA).

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2023

I spent the full day yesterday roaming the floor and meeting with exhibitors. 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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

Increasingly it is recognized that the executive planning meetings, that typically take place once a month, should be chaired by a top floor executive – a chief financial officer, chief operations officer, or even chief executive officer. There is a known problem for manufacturers in synchronizing their supply chain.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 6, 2015

As society experiences more demand for rapid order fulfillment and accuracy in supply chain processes, manufacturers and supply chain management providers must come up with a way to meet consumer demands. Furthermore, newer robots have more applications as they may be repurposed to meet the needs of the manufacturing and logistics industry.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2022

Fives, through its Smart Automation Solutions Division, says it is an industry leading provider and integrator of cutting-edge, smart, scalable, and sustainable solutions for advanced automation, handling, and sorting, worldwide.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 16, 2023

With proven success within the domestic 3PL industry, the company is looking to make its tech available to meet the current demand for innovative plug & play automation solutions in the US. By vertically sorting parcels, the system helps customers achieve 3x productivity, sorting accuracy of 99.99% and space efficiency of 50 to 70%.

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The Lean Thinker

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Future State Map is a Hypothesis Once you understand the current condition, the next step is to answer the question, “How does the process need to operate in order to meet our goal?” 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

MARCH 8, 2023

The goal is to fully automate and eliminate risks and sudden downtime in the sorting process. To meet the market’s challenges, Körber Supply Chain has now, as the first supplier in the industry, developed a total solution to manage the sorting of products from pallets to trays. The solution is called Downstream.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

BÖWE SYSTEC, headquartered in Augsburg (Germany), has made a global name for itself with process automation solutions built around inserting, letter and parcel sorting as well as intralogistics. Customers in the intralogistics business can get everything they need to optimize their sorting centres and warehouses from BOWE INTRALOGISTICS.

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Locus

AUGUST 22, 2024

By effectively managing resources like vehicles, drivers, and routes, dispatch planning helps businesses meet customer expectations while reducing delivery delays and operational challenges. Locus tackles this with its auto-sorting module, which sorts orders based on factors like delivery speed, service zones, and order priority.

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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. The post Empowering a Greener, Smarter Future in Logistics Through AI appeared first on More Than Shipping.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Meeting the demands of high-density and high-traffic warehouse operations such as those experienced in eCommerce operations, “AirRob has the characteristics of high return rate, high flexibility and high efficiency,” continues Huang Mingren. Our mission is to create solutions together with our customers and partners.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

In 45,000 sq m of warehouse space, 250 Geek+ robots handle both goods-to-person picking and order sorting processes for NEXT’s e-commerce operations. Faced with high demand and operating in the volatile fashion industry, NEXT decided to streamline its processes and scale up efficiently to meet new customer requirements.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 30, 2021

This is a strategically important development that meets the needs of UK warehouse operators facing the combined challenges of a rapidly moving ecommerce marketplace, rising costs and a reducing pool of available labour.”. The post GreyOrange forms UK partnership with Logistex appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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