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How Technology is Helping Companies Move Goods and Do Good

Logistics Viewpoints

The Intersection of Warehouse Growth and Employee Scarcity. The combination of continually growing consumer and business demand, a supply chain permanently altered after adapting to Covid, and the Great Resignation has cumulatively impacted the nation’s warehousing landscape like never before. Helping to Move Goods and to Do Good.

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Gamification and Robotics Level Up Employee Engagement

Logistics Viewpoints

One such tactic is the implementation of robotics and gamification in a warehouse setting. They can move the goods more efficiently about the warehouse and often more quickly than human workers and aid overall workflow productivity.

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Walmart Making Significant Bet on Warehouse Robotics

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights communication made by retailer Walmart regarding a significant bet on warehouse robotics having attractive operating profitability promise. This large retailer has expanded its capital expenditure budget to upwards of $20 billion in 2022. The report indicates that the retailer’s 1.4

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This Week in Logistics News (February 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

The initiative involves placing RFID tags on packages and wearable devices on employees to eliminate manual scans, reduce misloads, and accelerate parcel throughput in the delivery giant’s warehouses. network this year after its initial success at select facilities in 2022. percent year-over-year drop in January container volume.

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

Enterra Insights

Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, writes, “Today, an estimated 90% of the world’s goods are transported by sea, with 60% of that — including virtually all your imported fruits, gadgets and appliances — packed in large steel containers. ”[2]. A Brief Shipping Container History.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

That said, implementing Lean concepts would undoubtedly be part of that strategy, for example, - Lean Warehousing : Many firms (both retailers and manufacturers) are now aggressively rolling out Lean in their warehouse operations. Eliminate Before You Automate : Automation is critical to large, efficient warehouse operations.

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6 River Systems named to RBR50 by Robotics Business Review

6 River Systems

The RBR50 is the annual list of the 50 most innovative and transformative robotics companies that have achieved commercial success in the past year. Our customer base is using collaborative robots to ramp their fulfillment capacity and productivity, at a fraction of the cost of traditional warehouse automation solutions.