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Ecosystem in Practice: Building a Best-In-Class Manufacturing Tech Stack

Arena Solutions

We have another one that is commercially available as well called Stretch, which is a logistics and warehouse robot used for moving boxes, say, up to 50 pounds. We’re based here in Waltham, Massachusetts, not too far away. I’m a Solution Architect. We’ve been a Tulip customer now for just about a year.

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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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What is the Hyperconnected Era & “The Internet Of Things” and What does it Have to Do with Manufacturing & Logistics?

GlobalTranz

No longer are we in a world where consumers and employees “go online” to work, play, or purchase; we are now in a world where everyone and everything simply is online, whether at home, at school, at the office, or on-the-go. He later co-founded the Auto-ID Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Running on autopilot

Kinaxis

Thanks to automation’s roots in the industrial revolution, many associated the term with mechanical production lines and warehouse floors. As Robert Bowman from SupplyChainBrain points out , “The focus up to now has been largely on repetitive, transactional processes, in warehouses as well as on the production line.”

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How To Keep Medical Supplies Moving With ERP Remote Access

IQMS

Based in Massachusetts with offices and facilities in Hong Kong and China, GII’s products are used extensively in electrosurgical tools, critical patient monitoring devices, and other products for medical applications, and medical supplies with zero-failure requirements.

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Omnichannel Fulfillment and the Amazon Effect

Enterra Insights

.”[1] Retailers puzzling over how to counter the Amazon Effect realized their brick-and-mortar stores could be used as fulfillment centers and began to roll out “click-and-collect” capabilities — allowing shoppers to purchase an item online and pick it up in store. Competing in the omnichannel environment. They are: 1.

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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. first appeared on Enterra Solutions.