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Contracts, Cancellations, and Closures: Persistent Trends Leave a Pre-Peak Season Logistics Industry on Edge

Intelligent Audit

However, transportation management experts caution logistics providers not to get too excited. Speaking at a recent event in Las Vegas, Patton said, “ This business model is hurting to a degree where my company individually has to see change from FedEx Ground,” according to reporting from SupplyChainDive. imports totaled 2.53

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26 warehouse pros reveal the most important factors to consider when moving to an automated warehouse

6 River Systems

Train your department lead to utilize real-time analytics dashboards and your staff can identify supply chain kinks before they derail into company-wide snafus. These solutions make it so most of the heavy work is done by machines, allowing employees to spend their time leveraging inventory reports instead of manual inventory tracking.

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Top 25 Supply Chains of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

One of the most popular articles we’ve ever done is our look at analyst group Gartner’s annual ranking of the Top 25 Supply Chains. So the CSR score too is more of a popularity contest than a consistent metric. At the end of the slideshow, you’ll also find links to our analyses of previous years’ rankings. Media Type. Media Credit.

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50 expert tips on improving warehouse efficiency & productivity

6 River Systems

Offer cross training and provide continual training seminars on new procedures to improve productivity.” ” — 8 Tips to Reduce Warehouse Costs , Industry Today; Twitter: @Ind_today 10. “On average, 60% of your warehouse workers’ (or picking-robots’) time is spent on transporting themselves around the warehouse.