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Driver Shortage, Driverless Vehicles, and Other Supply Chain Curiosities

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Currently, most driverless opportunities are limited to secure private zones or closed environments, such as warehouses, campus environments or last mile runs from depot to front door. What’s more, bots don’t require paychecks, benefits, vacations, training or other workforce overhead. To learn more, visit [link].

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Home Delivery Robots: Last Mile Gamechangers

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When it comes to deploying robots, warehouse technology is more established, as the use of robots within warehouses is set to grow significantly. Warehouse labor shortages will continue to be the main growth driver for autonomous mobile robots. Robots continue to be a larger part of global supply chains.

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Evolution of the Warehouse: How it Adapted to E-Commerce and New Technology Trends?

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Today’s Warehouses Are Much Different Due To E-Commerce. What you might not know is the effect of e-commerce’s growth on warehouses. You might think, for example, that companies are struggling to find places to store their goods or that the cost of building warehouses and hiring employees negates the growing sales.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 10 – 16)

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Labor shortages in transportation and warehousing are quick to make headlines, but job opportunities across the supply chain continue to go unfilled despite promising pay and benefits. And within the sector, the warehousing and storage category has added the most jobs.

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4 Strategies for Maximizing Warehouse Safety

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It’s important to foster safety in the warehouse. In today’s world of automated warehouses and speedy supply chain fulfillment processes, it’s more important than ever to ensure worker safety in the warehouse. of warehouse employees suffered a workplace injury, and 3.7 Design Your Warehouse for Safety.

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4 Strategies for Maximizing Warehouse Safety

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It’s important to foster safety in the warehouse. In today’s world of automated warehouses and speedy supply chain fulfillment processes, it’s more important than ever to ensure worker safety in the warehouse. of warehouse employees suffered a workplace injury, and 3.7 Design Your Warehouse for Safety.

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The Best Supply Chain Conferences of 2019

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Although dozens of conferences exist around the globe, warehouse managers should consider going to one of the best supply chain conferences of 2019 (plus MODEX, which is held in even-numbered years and occurs in 2020). Also, some conferences may offer discounted rates for groups, and others, like ProMat, do not charge a registration fee.