The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

To be compliant, carriers had to install and train drivers to use an electronic logging device, which tracks the driver’s hours of service (HOS). The video can also be used for driver training and recording video of vehicle theft. The sensors enable drivers and carriers to document the temperature from pick-up to delivery.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

MTS Logistics recently held an educational environmental training and cleanup event on the beach in Izmir, Turkey. Our first aim was to include more children into our Clean Oceans Project and training this year as we are passing the torch to Gen Z and Millennials, the caretakers of our future.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Lean ensures that your satellite office in Colombia is staffed with highly educated, English speaking professionals trained in your company’s processes and systems. Pick and Pack, Sub-assembly. Since 2014, Lean has worked with over 100 satisfied U.S. based transportation and logistics providers. Less Than Truckload (LTL).

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 3, 2020

There are many carriers that specialize or offer this service and like full truckload carriers, the LTL carriers themselves specialize in different services such as lift gate and residential pick-ups and deliveries, guaranteed services, temperature control, transit, and bottom-line cost to name a few. Transportation Service #5 – Truckload.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

For instance, the rise of e-commerce and omnichannel retail has introduced new fulfillment demands, such as buy-online-pick-up-in-store (BOPIS) and ship-from-store models. Investing in Training and Collaboration : Beyond technology, workforce training and effective partnerships ensure systems are utilized fully.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 13, 2020

His passion is training and development of sales and operations professionals in the brokerage business. Our main objective is to utilize niche specific transportation training methods to improve efficiencies within the sales process and use our experience to enhance your operations team to execute your freight mix at a higher level.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2025

This capability can also be used with existing customers whose pick volumes are changing to see whether adding new bots makes sense. Locus is one of the largest providers in the market in a press release last year, they announced that their bots had completed over 4 billion picks. The worker goes to that bot and picks onto it.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This highly efficient, fully automated picking system provides up to 40,000 drug packages per hour during peak times on an order-by-order basis while meeting the pharmaceutical industry’s high standards. SSI Schaefer’s Customer Service & Support includes on-site technical support as needed, alongside training and remote support.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

RightHand Robotics, a provider of data-driven, autonomous robotic picking solutions for order fulfillment, announces the launch of its next-generation solution, the RightPick 4 system. Powered by RightPick AI, the RightPick 4 system is continuously learning and improving on the overall range of items that can be picked successfully. “We

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Jeff has had the opportunity to help lead a variety of different business units throughout his career including Circuit City stores, the world’s largest pet training service at Petsmart, analytics and strategy for a movie theater chain, and a carrier sales team at Globaltranz. Learn More About The Unsung Hero of Logistics.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When the new distribution centre is up and running, the ramp-up was successful, and the first items are picked onto pallets or roll containers with the help of highly dynamic COM machines, then the ‘Grand Opening’ is celebrated, everyone involved congratulates each other, and there is a festive atmosphere.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A big part of the value proposition for AMRs is improved picking efficiency. But Locus eventually proved to be very flexible; it could handle both big store orders and single-item picks for an e-commerce order. All picking is now done by just five order selectors working with 22 bots. Shoes get picked into that box.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 23, 2024

Autonomous, robotic picking of pieces in warehouse order fulfilment relies on sophisticated ‘hand-eye’ coordination. So, for industrial robotic picking does this reputation precede itself accurately? We own pick and place and go beyond the limitations of known operations,” David Schwebel (pictured below) tells me.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

TeamViewer, a leading global provider of remote connectivity and workplace digitalization solutions, recently announced that the Vandemoortele group has deployed TeamViewer’s Augmented Reality (AR) platform Frontline to digitally transform its warehouse picking operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2024

In our picking example, you would begin by analyzing the entire warehouse to identify where the bottleneck or constraint occurs. In our picking example, you would begin by analyzing the entire warehouse to identify where the bottleneck or constraint occurs. Is picking by paper slowing things down?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2024

The number of lines of less than case picking they were doing per day was rapidly increasing and they were worried that the ability to hit their next day service commitments, in an operation that was already tight, would be affected. And this is on top of already strong picking capabilities. Why AutoStore? What Were the Results?

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The Lean Thinker

APRIL 6, 2021

Since then these four steps have been picked up and incorporated into the training materials of many consultants, used to write the Wikipedia article on jidoka (which I most assuredly did not author), and even found their way into some academic papers. Every Toyota-trained leader I have ever dealt with is very consistent.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 31, 2018

For example, using smartphones and tablets instead of barcode scanners can make it easier to train your employees and for them to get work done. With the correct operational setup, it’s easier to train employees—taking hours instead of days—and increases overall efficiency. They’ll feel more accomplished and less stressed.

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Supply Chain and Logistics

AUGUST 18, 2022

LA Port can’t get enough trains in to pick up containers. What’s interesting to me here is the landside issues section. Rail remains challenged. There are now 33000 containers waiting for pickup by rail. Over 20000 have been there 9 … Continue reading →

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Conger

JANUARY 29, 2025

From automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to robotic picking systems , these technologies streamline operations and minimize human intervention. Goods-to-Person AMRs: Bring shelves or bins to workers for picking. Pick-Assist AMRs: Help human workers by carrying items during order fulfillment.

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Ship Monk

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Barcode Scanners — Barcode scanners are used at multiple checkpoints to make sure the right items are picked, packed, and loaded onto the right truck. With each scan, order status and inventory levels are automatically updated in the WMS.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2022

During the interview, Mark shares some of the sales strategies he uses in his sales consulting and training practice. Pick a niche and develop a profile for your ideal customer. In the podcast interview, Mark and Joe discuss becoming a sales hunter. Strategy #1 – Know Your Ideal Prospect.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 5, 2024

This is especially true as warehouse labor is becoming harder to find and more expensive to train. There are two main types of AMRs – those based on fleet management and systems that rely on picking optimization: Fleet management solutions typically operate with bigger payloads and route the robots from an origin to a destination.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Employee scarcity and high worker turnover are of critical impact to the efficiency and productivity of the nation’s warehouses, particularly when factoring in the costs of continually replacing and training new employees –which can equate to almost 25% of a worker’s average annual salary. But the impact goes well beyond resignations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 25, 2022

And while a high percentage of companies have said that investing in technology is important to their future plans, more than 66% of our respondents said that picking, packing and other warehouse processes are still done via paper and pencil. Help achieve better speed in item picking. Help achieve better accuracy in item picking.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Having inventory in the best location for picking will enable an efficient service model. Slotting logic will keep required levels of stock in the picking locations, limiting the need to stop picking to replenish inventory needed to complete the orders. It also decreases the opportunity for errors with that reduced handling.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 27, 2023

Here are some tips for making your WMS Budget work (you can apply this thinking to an upgrade or other supply chain solution implementation too): List hardware costs – Examine what devices (voice picking, etc.), Don’t be afraid to advocate for and invest in training to ensure a seamless transition.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2024

However, these technologies come with their own costs and require a significant amount of training for staff members before they are able to operate them effectively. After implementation, they saw a 3x increase in picking productivity, increases in picking accuracy to 99.95% and a 20-30% improvement in inventory accuracy by location.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

To counteract such scenes, warehouses boosted their permanent staff by recruiting hordes of temporary workers for anything from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, all of whom needed expensive and time-consuming vetting, onboarding and training.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2024

For example, if you want to train a computer vision system to recognize a dog’s image, you will start by using humans to look at tens of thousands of images of animals. A warehouse management system is a category of application software that supports receiving, put-away, picking, shipping, and value added services.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 26, 2018

He said, “Creating a great customer experience in last mile delivery doesn’t start with picking up the order, it starts with the internal process a brand chooses to manage its last mile solution.” With so much focus on the operations side of last mile delivery, I was struck by a comment Alex made recently.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Lean ensures that your satellite office in Colombia is staffed with highly educated, English speaking professionals trained in your company’s processes and systems. Pick and Pack, Sub-assembly. Since 2014, Lean has worked with over 290 satisfied U.S. based transportation and logistics providers. Less Than Truckload (LTL). Intermodal.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 27, 2019

19:57] One trend I’ve seen over the past ten years is that the shippers didn’t necessarily have to pick a 3PL based on technology and investment. A use case I’ve seen is training machines to look at invoices and picking off different pieces of information. Smaller warehouses with micro inventory are getting more popular. [25:18]

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Criminals operating a fictitious carrier might pick up a load from a broker before turning around and double brokering that load to a legitimate carrier. The thieves might instruct that carrier to take the load to a cross-dock where it could be picked up and taken to its final destination.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It may be a better investment decision to act now rather than having to go through another overhaul later, as cost may be higher, implementations will take more time and training could cause delays. You might only need the services of a Tier 2 vendor today, but will you require Tier 1 capabilities in the future?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 22, 2022

Things like inaccurate inventory data, redundant processes and mis-picks all waste time. In addition, their goals include preventing costly mis-picks by ensuring better organization in the warehouse. Picking (in batches, by expiry date or by location, for example). Step 4: Test the system and train your team.

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Material Handling and Logistics

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In the traditional supply chain, a truck brings the product to the train, the train carries it a distance, and then a truck picks it up to deliver the last mile. These calculations can synchronize multiple assets and multiple pieces of supply chain function more effectively. Along the Rail. The Last Mile.

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