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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

While this is not exactly the best news to hear, it’s time to move on to this week’s logistics news. Small businesses getting squeezed out in push for warehouse space. The company created Project Gigaton in 2017 to engage suppliers and other stakeholders up and down the supply chain to reduce carbon emissions.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017

Material Handling & Logistics

Our salute to the best advancements in supply chain technology, processes and labor management from 2017. And here’s to hoping that 2018 results in even more significant advancements in the state of warehousing and transportation technology. Content Summary: Exoskeletons Help Take a Load Off for Warehouse Workers. Media Type.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

It was a relatively quiet week for supply chain and logistics news, with robots and weak freight demand dominating the headlines. Honeywell To Acquire Intelligrated, A Leader In Supply Chain And Warehouse Automation Technologies. This is the second large acquisition in the warehouse automation space in less than a month.

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Supply Chain Movement issue 26 – Logistics Strategy

Supply Chain Movement

Contents Supply Chain Movement 26 – 2017 Q3. Date of appearance: September 15th, 2017. 14 | 3PL Subway Map Europe 2017: Calm before the storm in logistics market. She was recently voted Denmark’s best Supply Chain executive 2017. 22 | Management: the path to logistics partnerships.

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Is Google the most innovative supply chain company in the world?

Freightos

By 2017, the market research company expects the number of global smartphone users to increase to 2.50bn and represent 33.8% Inventory management and replenishment as well as reverse logistics can now be managed by mobile as well as payments. This would have the effect of reducing warehousing requirements.

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4 Global Supply chain management strategies to avoid bottlenecks in operations

ThroughPut

Take the Netherlands, for example. In 2017, the U.S. This is why supply chain managers are always stressing over demand forecasts — something that tops the list of most critical inventory and warehouse management practices. In the current political climate, U.S. had a trade surplus of $24.5 imports from China dropped 9.9%.

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Drones in Supply Chain

ModusLink Corporation

Companies that deal with a large amount of inventory often find it challenging to find items inside the warehouse. Therefore, the areal inventory drones can benefit many big organizations to find the right items inside the warehouse and cut their inventory carrying costs. Warehouse robotics: everything you need to know in 2019.