WorkWave

MARCH 13, 2025

Shoppers now demand faster delivery times and greater transparency in their order status, putting pressure on logistics providers to adapt quickly. With RouteManager, companies can create and adjust driver schedules, dispatch drivers with ease and optimize up to 10,000 orders per day.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

and Sheehan Family Companies, FreightPlus is a one-stop shop and trusted partner for growing-to-mid-market suppliers looking to gain cost control over their transportation programs, eliminating the brokers and delivering the best solution for each client’s business from order to invoice.

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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. Despite its transformative potential, the path to full AI integration in logistics presents challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Once that requisition is approved, it becomes a purchase order. If the invoice matches the purchase order, it is posted in SAP, and the payment is made automatically without any paper or human touch. They add accounting information and where it should be shipped to. That is electronically sent to the supplier.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Brad brings it all to the table from characterizing Emerge’s brand and culture, presenting Emerge’s value proposition to the industry, and determining pivotal insights to enhance customer experience. Brad’s higher education includes a B.S. in Exercise & Wellness from Arizona State University and M.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In addition, the holiday shopping period between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year is 26 days—five days shorter than in 2023—potentially creating additional headaches for online vendors and their delivery partners attempting to fulfill a greater volume of orders in less time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 30, 2025

While this structured approach ensures consistency and order, it also creates rigidity, leaving the system unable to adapt to unexpected changes or optimize processes dynamically for specific scenarios. Warehouse optimization solutions enable DCs to implement waveless picking or dynamic order prioritization, even with legacy systems.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

The transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. when telesales would have captured many of the daily orders from customers. “I would begin my shift at 2 p.m.

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Some areas in Florida have shelter-in-place orders, likely limiting available trucking capacity and shipper operations throughout the end of the week. These impacts to the road infrastructure and expected congestions are already presenting delays and disruptions for retailers. “A

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Planners need the right information at the right time, presented with the proper context, to make meaningful decisions. For example, a warehouse inventory discrepancy may only matter if it affects high-priority orders or strategic customers. To break through the noise requires context.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2024

Executing a Perfect Order is Difficult! According to Mike Carroll, a vice president at Georgia-Pacific, “In creating a more seamless order management process, we needed a capability that enabled us to navigate the complexities of the myriad of individual orders that we receive every minute, hour, and day, with unparalleled precision.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Now more than ever, organizations must prepare their supply chain for the present and the unknown challenges and opportunities in the future. Doing so helps organizations detect market shifts and makes supply chain decisions more forward-looking than an analysis of the past, present, and at best, a tactical view of the future.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

Customer order history: Historical customer order volumes and frequencies. Order picking, packing, transportation processes, and inventory management practices and procedures are all worthy targets for standardisation. Service requirements: Customers’ service level and delivery lead time expectations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 27, 2024

To help companies make sound decisions that favor their present and future financial health, it is essential to use advanced management techniques and methods, collectively known as supply chain management (SCM). However, reality is full of complex challenges and constant dilemmas.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 4, 2024

Planners have the flexibility to establish the target service levels for individual products or categories, while AI handles the remaining details (safety stock levels, reorder points, order quantities, etc.). Waste management includes storage costs, depreciation of perishable goods, and disposal expenses.

Inventory Reduction 111

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2024

The robots can perform various tasks, such as transporting goods, picking orders, sorting items, and replenishing inventory. Example of Cloud and SaaS Solutions for WES at MODEX 2024 One of the examples of cloud and SaaS solutions for WES that were presented at MODEX 2024 was the Locus Robotics LocusServer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s human nature to want to start a new year with new goals—the ever-present new year’s resolutions. Other critical functions include order management, manufacturing, and product development. Typically, we make it at least one month into the new year before we have to revise our plans.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2024

Mr. Elliott made two statements early in his presentation that stuck with me. Körber Elevate: Technology From a technology perspective, Körber has four focus areas for 2024: advanced workflow management, internationalization of order management system, enhancing the user experience, and creating a modern warehouse management solution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Smart warehouses are using IoT sensors, powered by 5G, to automate inventory tracking and manage orders with greater accuracy. Challenges in the Transition to 5G in Logistics While 5G presents significant opportunities for logistics, transitioning to this technology is not without challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 17, 2024

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2024, companies including Hyundai, Nikola , and Bosch presented their most recent fuel cells and hydrogen technology innovations, indicating a potential comeback for this environmentally friendly energy choice. This resurgence might be influenced by the announcement of a $7 billion U.S.

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 2, 2024

With the justification aside, they next had us go through exercises calculating net present value and ROI for a hypothetical capital investment in tooling – as though a shop floor supervisor would do this at any point in the course of their job.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2024

So, a user might ask, “who is the supplier on this order.” These visual controls present the information in an intuitive and verifiable way and enable the users to dive right into the data.” The idea here is an Alexa-type experience where a user asks a question and the technology searches through an application to find the answer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 26, 2024

And they present a host of logistical challenges. Dozens more are awaiting delivery to China. Unable to fly, the planes aren’t delivering much-needed cash as the jet maker burns through more than $1 billion a month. Planes sitting around too long may need software or other updates.

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