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Shipping Containers and Supply Chain Snarls: Is There a Way Out?

Enterra Insights

Much of the finger-pointing involved the movement of shipping containers into and out of port facilities. For the supply chain to work smoothly, a complex and highly choreographed dance, involving both full and empty shipping containers, must be performed. More than 80 ships stretched to the distance — a new record. ”[1].

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What is Supply Chain Innovation? Separating the Reality from the Hype

MIT Supply Chain

Supply chain innovations such as the early adoption of RFID underline how a flawed view of new technology can lead to unwise investment decisions. For many companies supply chain innovation (SCI) is a key source of competitive advantage. Blurred vision. The lack of clarity is more than an academic issue. Take RFID, for example.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

hope to slash shipping costs and save millions of dollars when they sit down later this month to negotiate long-term contracts with ocean carriers following last year’s surge in rates. The average contract cost of shipping a container from China to the U.S. network this year after its initial success at select facilities in 2022.

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Walmart Making Significant Bet on Warehouse Robotics

Supply Chain Matters

This has had special significance as overall online shopping volumes decline from prior pandemic driven volumes, and where the thresholds for the ability to sustain “ Free Shipping ” offerings are growing larger because of rising and unsustainable costs.

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Another Step Toward a 3D Printing Revolution?

MIT Supply Chain

Implications like these will be discussed as MIT CTL’s 2014 Crossroads conference , Biomanufacturing, Robots, and 4D Printing: The Next Decade of Disruptive Innovation, March 25 th , 2014, on the MIT campus, Cambridge, MA. It opens up a whole new space that makes the old look primitive.”.

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DesignFuture Japan and Locus Robotics to deploy autonomous mobile robots in Japan.

Locus Robotics

Locus Robotics has deployed innovative ESG-friendly AMRs at more than 250 sites world-wide and has picked more than 1.3 Locus optimizes the orders and sends them to the LocusBots which autonomously move around the 6,000 m2 distribution center collaborating with workers to pick the samples and deliver them to the shipping staff.

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The New Normal: Falling Rates and Improved Efficiency Set New Standards for Shippers

Intelligent Audit

Falling ocean rates and volatile fuel costs have logistics professionals across the supply chain searching for innovative efficiency solutions throughout their operations. Facing difficulty in the trans-Pacific market, industry-leading shipping giant Maersk has announced it’s dropped two trans-pacific services.