Fleet Owner

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Volvo Trucks has unveiled an all-electric, fully autonomous tractor of sorts designed for specific applications to help address freight and driver challenges. There's no cab at all, like you sliced that off and left nothing but the motor and fifth wh

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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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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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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 Business Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2024

DHL employs predictive analytics to forecast demand and optimize stock levels, allowing the company to reduce inventory costs and meet customer needs. Companies like UPS are addressing these challenges by incorporating machine learning into package sorting and route planning, cutting costs and improving workflow efficiency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

One such advancement is the integration of warehouse robotics, which has revolutionized the way tasks such as sorting, picking, transporting, and packaging goods are performed. These automated systems are designed to perform tasks such as sorting, picking, transporting, and packaging goods with unparalleled efficiency and precision.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 12, 2025

Many businesses are taking a balanced approachavoiding excessive stockpiling while ensuring they can meet potential surges in demand. Many businesses are taking a balanced approachavoiding excessive stockpiling while ensuring they can meet potential surges in demand, he said.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This synergy enables optimised delivery routes, minimises sorting and delivery errors, and provides real-time alerts for any disruptions. By incorporating RFID-enabled labels and automated sensors, UPS has reduced sorting and delivery errors, ensuring parcels are accurately tracked and delivered, optimising routes, and minimising costs.

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Ship Monk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Kentucky Fulfillment Center Shipping At ShipMonk, we offer an array of shipping services for ecommerce brands to make choices that best meet their budgets and customer needs, including expedited 2-day shipping, Standard shipping, and Economy shipping. It is only half a mile from the Port of Louisville (Louisville Riverport).

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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 Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

Multi-agent systems can dynamically adjust production and distribution plans to meet customer needs while minimizing waste and improving efficiency. Warehouse Automation Agents: AI-powered robots can perform tasks like sorting, picking, and packing, significantly speeding up operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The product press release states that the system provides sort locations for up to 240 orders to be processed at the same time in a single robotic put wall. Robotic Picking. BG Robotic Picking and Placement of Individual Grocery Items from Bin (bottom: to plastic bags).

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Locus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Health-related absenteeism and operational challenges can disrupt output, leaving industries struggling to meet demand. Automate Operations Automating repetitive tasks such as parcel sorting, dispatch scheduling, and inventory management can reduce reliance on human labor and improve efficiency.

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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

Warehouse Automation and High-Density Storage To support regionalized freight networks , companies are investing in: Robotics and AI-driven sorting systems to improve efficiency. AI-driven demand forecasting helps shippers plan regional freight movements more effectively.

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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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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 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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WorkWave

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In the contemporary competitive market, maintaining speedy and reliable delivery service has become essential to meet rising customer expectations. Robotics and automation are transforming sorting fulfillment centers and warehouses, improving operational precision, and reducing manual labor costs.

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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 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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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 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.

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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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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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Log-hub

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its about efficiency, sustainability, and meeting customer expectations. Furthermore, the process involves sorting, inspecting, and determining the best course of action for each item, which demands significant time and effort. In the fast-paced and consumer-driven market, logistics is more than just delivering products.

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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 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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ECW

OCTOBER 3, 2024

It takes more time and money to unload, sort, and store these products. We have strict guidelines to make sure that the products coming in meet all the necessary requirements and that theres no risk of contamination or infestation. If youre relying on multiple vendors, theres always a risk that one might not meet the same standards.

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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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