Locus Robotics

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When you hear the word “bottleneck”, you probably think of the 109 container ships that were backed up off the Southern California coast. But that didn’t mean the end of the bottleneck when the ships left the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Houston, We Have a Storage Problem. How did warehouses become the bottleneck?

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Recent estimates suggest that Hurricane Harvey destroyed a minimum of 100,000 homes in the Houston-Beaumont, Texas, area. For example, demand-side tools give manufacturers access to real-time retail point-of-sale data so they can adjust production, replenishment and other supply chain requirements accordingly. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2022

Retail’s inventory glut means big business for liquidators. The deliveries will take place as part of a pilot that’s being conducted by Waymo and JB Hunt Transport Services to test out self-driving trucks along certain shipping routes in Texas. Cardinal Health starts Zipline drone deliveries of drugs and medical supplies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This is leading to an inventory pile-up of processors and memory chips used in PCs. Some retailers are learning to love bulked-up inventories. We’ve seen lots of stories over the last few years of retail stores shifting to smaller format stores to focus on e-commerce fulfillment. McDonald’s also jumping on the bandwagon.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It also allows existing employees to spend less time lugging boxes or finding inventory and more time doing the more complex parts of their job that are difficult to automate. Those inventory systems require more attention because of this (a human gig), as do programming and maintenance. Soon, robots will replace those jobs, too.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 2, 2018

E-Commerce Changes Shipping Patterns. Back in the olden days, before 2013, the retail freight season hit its peak in October. Container ships docked in Los Angeles or Long Beach, the freight was unloaded, sorted and moved on rail intermodal or van trailers to regional distribution centers across the country.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2022

The market for drone deliveries continues to heat up, as more and more drone operators, and more and more retailers, look to make deliveries from the sky. percent year on year in June, driven by double-digit surges in New York/New Jersey, Houston, and Savannah, Georgia. Demand drives 3PLs to the best growth and M&A year on record.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Wholesalers are now scrambling to get products from producers to retailers, which explains why our favorite wine from the early days of the pandemic is no longer available. Most of Estee Lauder’s holiday product has already been shipped to retailers. Uber will now bring you diapers, wipes and other baby essentials.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

First, Descartes unveiled new optimization technology at its user conference that “helps retailers and distributors make deliveries the same day an order is taken.” The service will begin in Los Angeles and New York on November 17, with plans to expand it to Dallas, New Orleans, Houston, Phoenix, and other cities next year.

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

AI will be able to survey an area or room and create an accurate inventory in seconds, including weights and volumes, and determine damage on items. “Data science can bring great gains for…” Logistics efforts of retailers and manufacturers. dba Cabrella Shipping Insurance Intelligence. Marc Tuinier.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Retail imports expected to hit repeated monthly records after record year in 2020. The program could roll out as early as next week, with pilot programs in Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, and El Paso, TX. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the pandemic’s impact on shipping times for Peloton.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 18, 2021

Home Depot contracted its own container ship. There have been product shortages for a number of restaurants and retailers recently, as supply chains have felt the effects of labor and supply shortages. The company has contracted a ship that will begin running next month. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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6 River Systems

JULY 3, 2020

For instance, conveyor systems are bulky and fixed in place, so warehouses with conveyor systems often must design the warehouse layout around this infrastructure while allocating adequate space for other warehouse functions, such as sortation and packaging and shipping. Plan for the flow from production to packaging to shipping.

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