The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 10, 2023

Unlike traditional methods, Pollen does not require overhead costs such as drivers, rented space, or sort centers. Pollen requires no overhead like drivers, rented space in a retail location, or sort centers. With its patented technology, Pollen is transforming returns from a cost to a profit center for retailers.

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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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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Even in normal times, transportation professionals have their hands full dealing with all sorts of exceptions and disruptions. The current COVID-19 pandemic is further magnifying those challenges.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 7, 2024

Out of 8,000 consumers surveyed, 63% said they took some sort of negative action after encountering delivery problems.

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Overdrive Online

MARCH 29, 2021

Yet failure to effectively plan for the change can be its own Achilles Heel of sorts. History is rich with companies that worked tirelessly to save their sinking ship rather than change when the need became inevitable.

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The USPS has installed 158 new mail sorting machines across the country since late 2023, and since 2020 has tripled its daily package processing capacity.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

JUNE 18, 2019

Packages start with UPS or FedEx and end up at a USPS sorting facility for final delivery by letter carriers on their regular routes. By now, you’re probably well-acquainted with the potential for parcel shipping services like UPS SurePost and FedEx SmartPost to save you big money. The basic model of each service is the same.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 21, 2023

From humble beginnings out of high school sorting BOLs in a mailroom, he pursued knowledge relentlessly and earned his college degree, and advancing his career. With extensive expertise in parcel and freight bill auditing, payment, business intelligence, and associated technologies, he offers valuable insights to the supply chain industry.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 28, 2021

degrees of global warming within reach, reduce coal use, sort out rules for a global carbon market and raise billions in climate finance. The aim of COP — the acronym for the conference of parties that’s now in its 26th round — is to curb emissions, keep the goal of 1.5

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Logistics Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

There will be no merger, acquisition or combination of any sort involving Yellow Corp. and any of its rival less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers. That’s the final word on that from none other than Yellow CEO Darren Hawkins, who says he has enough going on within his $5 billion company.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 23, 2024

Women who sorted resin for the Somaliland supplier claimed that they would work 12-hour days, six days a week, in facilities with no toilets or running water.

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Logistics Management

MARCH 8, 2023

million into this facility, which it said is comprised of almost 56,000 square-feet of combined warehouse and office space, coupled with 60 positions for vehicles to load and unload shipments around its conveyable sort system. DHL said it invested $9.6

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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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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. But, from origin to destination, FedEx asserts, there are multiple intervention points.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 5, 2022

retail shelves and in warehouses ahead of the holidays might give way to an economic hangover of sorts. The bigger-than-usual rush to stockpile products on U.S.

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Overdrive Online

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It's the most common sort of DataQs challenge -- to an 'incorrect violation' on an inspection report, absent a citation to adjudicate in court. It's also the least likely to be successfully changed, yet here's an example where persistence paid off.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 24, 2023

What sort of things do you need to look at in terms of Systems and KPIs? What do you need to know about your supply chain? What are the key systems that businesses need to have? Watch the video to find out!

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The sorting centers are designed to further Target’s strategy of using its stores to handle online orders as it vies with Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. for sales.

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Overdrive Online

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This sort of accountability isn't what inspections were designed for, in his view. After a flat trailer tire was caught at inspection, an owner-op's carrier assessed violation points nearly sufficient to void his lease in one fell swoop.

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Supply Chain and Logistics

JUNE 27, 2023

It’s a sort of ‘green corridor’ project, with a network of bunkering terminals, and ships to service offshore oil operations in the Norwegian Continental Shelf. This is the kind of cooperative project that can provide success in ESG innovation. By … Continue reading →

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Supply Chain and Logistics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

P&I Clubs are increasingly on point sorting these out for carriers and shippers. Sanctions are increasingly complex today, due to the Ukraine war. P&I Clubs form risk pools to insure carriers on specific voyages, covering such risks as damage, war … Continue reading →

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Supply Chain and Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Recently it’s been bulk ships of other sorts that have been converted. The new mantra is ‘anything that can carry containers’ Concordia owns 6 tankers they would like to convert to container ships. Back in the 60s, Malcolm McLean, the … Continue reading →

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Overdrive Online

JULY 28, 2021

Looking for some sort of diversion in the depths of the upper-Midwest COVID wave back in October of 2020, DSD Transport small-fleet owner Don Wood took this 2003 Peterbilt 379 and began to rebuild it from the bare frame to what it is today.

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Truck News

MAY 2, 2022

Lots of folks have been asking what sort of reaction I got to my recent column in which I ranted about the misguided siege of Ottawa by disgruntled protesters, some of them truckers, demanding what they called “freedom”. I still don’t really understand what they were on about, but I do know they failed to […].

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 7, 2022

They were sorting returns at more than 450 store locations, and sending single packages in small shipments to vendors receiving returns. Challenge: A top-10 big-box retailer needed to consolidate returns processing and improve returns management, vendor returns consolidation and liquidation yield.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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. Final Word. These are just a few examples of the application of mobile robotics to warehouse operations.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 9, 2019

07:45] While we were prepping for this interview, I said that I thought everyone was using some sort of technology or automation for payments, but you explained that is not the case. It’s a fantastic place to be in this business. The talent pool is excellent and there are lots of tax advantages. [07:45]

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Körber Innovation Center showcases a full-scale, end-to-end setup of Körber’s advanced parcel and postal sortation handling equipment, trusted by the nation’s largest multinational supply chain companies to efficiently sort and deliver commercial mail and packages to end customers.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Warehousing services include: Warehouse Storage, Pick and Pack, Sub-assembly, Site Location, Distribution Center Management, Inbound Shipping, Outbound shipping, Receiving, Putaway, Put-away, Order processing, Replenishment, Pulling, Restocking, Picking, Validation, Sorting, Distribution Center Management System (DCMS), Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), (..)

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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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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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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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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2024

The robots can perform various tasks, such as transporting goods, picking orders, sorting items, and replenishing inventory. Vision systems can help robots to recognize objects, faces, barcodes, labels, and other features, and to perform tasks such as picking, sorting, inspecting, and scanning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 25, 2024

Automated systems can also facilitate recycling and waste management by sorting materials more efficiently and effectively than manual processes. Reducing waste : Automation enables tighter control over production processes, reducing the likelihood of defects or errors that result in wasted materials.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Companies will become increasingly dependent on digital tools to sort, track, and mitigate issues at the border. As the demand sees no end and trade wars wage on, the future of the supply chain will not come without hiccups. As the holiday season continues it will be interesting to see what unfolds and return here for more news.

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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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