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DHL Supply Chain’s Digital Transformation in the Warehouse

Logistics Viewpoints

Of course, we subsequently share interesting insights in Logistics Viewpoints articles. Earlier this month, Brian Gaunt, Senior Director of Accelerated Digitization at DHL, provided me with an update on the company’s warehouse digitization journey. Currently, DHL North America has over 2,000 bots deployed.

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The Global Warehouse Automation Market is “En Fuego”

Logistics Viewpoints

This was on a day I was busy analyzing the global warehouse automation market. There are many other similar growth examples in warehouse automation. Do they have reason to believe it has run its course? Regionally, growth in North America and western Europe was most pronounced. Anyway, I digress. percent to 3.79

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Will Trucking Challenges Transform JITS in North America?

QAD

Cost savings in warehousing and floor space along with associated reduction in personnel required. Naturally, over the course of the next decade, this workforce is expected to dwindle significantly. Trucking Challenges in North America. But why just in North America?

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From Real-Time Visibility to Real-Time Decisions: Data’s Value Is Propagating Across Global Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

That’s when you can course correct in any number of ways that make your business more efficient and your customers happier. It was precisely the industry’s inability to make real-time decisions (based on real-time data) that was at the root of depleted store shelves, clogged ports and warehouses overflowing with excess inventory.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

Goods move through 25 ports of entry into North America and 10 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. To improve efficiency, they have begun to install warehouse robots from Locus robotics in North America and Europe. Building highly automated warehouses takes time. But it affected VF less than many.

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How Do You Plan for the Unpredictable? Advice for Supply Chain Planners in 2020

ToolsGroup

ToolsGroup’s GM of North America, David Barton, sat down for a video interview with Robert Bowman, managing editor at Supply Chain Brain , to share anecdotes and advice for supply chain planners in a year no one could have planned for. Of course, demand forecasts are the biggest concern people have.

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From Push-Cart to Cutting-Edge Robotics: China Skips Traditional Warehouse Automation

Logistics Viewpoints

Of course, this was an exaggeration, but it illustrated his point well. “ Of course, fiber optic land lines offer greater bandwidth. I see a similar paradigm playing out in the warehouse automation landscape of China. However, at this point it appears that mobile warehouse robotics adoption has accelerated rapidly in China.

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