Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 9, 2024

Perhaps more than any other warehouse systems, sorters are also among the most time-tested and multi-faceted solutions in use today.

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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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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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Food Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Industry experts offer hope to a return to normalcy in the supply chain space, but it will be a new normal of sorts and be quite the bumpy ride in getting there.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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Sorting 131

Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2024

These systems can decouple picking from order fulfillment by storing items in dynamic buffers, then sorting them into desired sequences through matrix sortation. Beyond sorting, the pouch system enables dynamic buffering, which allows returned items to be quickly reintegrated into inventory after quality checks.

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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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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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Sorting 124

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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Sorting 105

Bulk Connection

DECEMBER 11, 2024

From phones to trash cans to soda bottles, all sorts of everyday items start out as plastic pellets transported in pneumatic trailers. These pellets, also known as resin or nurdles, are foundational materials for countless products and industries. In some ways, bulk plastic shipping is a lot like shipping any other dry bulk commodity.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2021

There’s something about being outside in the cold, surrounded by snow and woods, that brings out all sorts of ideas in me. I asked myself that question while cross country skiing many years ago. That crazy idea. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 29, 2021).

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As I stated back in 2019, I found the partnership with Kindred and the integration with Kindred Sort particularly interesting. There I learned about the company’s partnerships with automation vendors and the forthcoming Manhattan Automation Network certification.

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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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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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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

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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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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Truck News

JULY 7, 2020

It’s an interesting one, a simple if somewhat dangerous example of ingenuity of a sort that could be seen all over the place 40 years ago. Old-timers and students of trucking in the trenches will know about ‘prairie cruise control’ but newbies and those who hail from foreign parts likely won’t. At the wheel or […].

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Conveyor Belts and Sorting Systems: Moves and sorts items around the warehouse. Warehouse Management System (WMS) Software: Manages inventory, orders and picking. Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS): Automates storage and retrieval of items, reduces manual labour and increases efficiency.

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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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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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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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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 Business Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Companies like UPS are addressing these challenges by incorporating machine learning into package sorting and route planning, cutting costs and improving workflow efficiency. Inefficiencies due to these legacy systems reportedly cost the logistics sector over £1.88 billion annually.

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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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