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Logistics I.T.
IN BRIEF: New Services and Solutions
Aloha Marine Lines, part of the Lynden family of companies, added a new barge to its fleet to serve customers in the Seattle to Hawaii trade lane. Constructed at Gunderson Marine & Iron in Portland, Oregon, the Makani Loa joins the Kamakani and Namakani—all Makani Class barges that serve Aloha Marine Lines’ bi-weekly barge service between Seattle and Hawaii. The Makani Class barges are fitted with high binwalls which help to keep freight secure while minimizing the amount of lashing needed.
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The Indispensable Edge: TMS Empowers Shippers in a Competitive Landscape
Stop pushing boxes. For companies looking to get ahead, a Transportation Management System (TMS) is no longer a luxury, it’s a necessity. Leading TMS providers offer solutions and innovations to propel shippers toward efficiency, cost reduction, and superior service delivery.
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OTTO Motors Founder Talks AMRs, APIs, and Entrepreneurial DNA
After starting his materials handling robotics company with just $200, Matt Rendall has learned to focus relentlessly on product and customer development, lead with humility, trust his gut, and allow his team to learn from mistakes.
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From Experimentation to Transformation: Generative AI in the Supply Chain
For most organizations, GenAI is still in the experimental phase, and business leaders may be unsure of how to identify the best use cases within their organizations to leverage as a jumping-off point.
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ProvisionAi and Riviana Foods: Get a Load of This
Walk through any grocery store, and you’ll likely come across products from Riviana Foods. It’s one of the largest processors, marketers, and distributors of branded and private-label rice products in the United States. Its brands include Minute, Success, Mahatma, Adolphus, RiceSelect, and others.
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IN BRIEF: New Services and Solutions
The Movu 3D shuttle system escala is a flexible robotic automated bin storage and retrieval sub-system, suitable for even the smallest applications of bin-compatible products. Robots move along a rail track that connects every location point within the dense storage and retrieval rack, transferring between levels via ramps. Intelligent management software allows sequencing of bins at multiple points within the system and at the goods-to-person workstations.
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Supply Chain Resilience: Overcoming the Obstacles
Organizations draw on resilience planning and impactful technology for the strength to resist the challenges of lengthy supply chains and ongoing disruptions.
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Supply Chain Technology: What’s Coming Online?
The next wave of supply chain technology includes exciting innovations such as closed AI systems, non-human customers, edge processing, and LEO satellites. Are you ready?
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2024 IL Market Research: Logistics IT Steps Up
IL’s annual report illuminates how companies are increasing supply chain technology investments to become more efficient and light up return-on-investment.
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IN BRIEF: New Services and Solutions
ArcBest’s new Vaux Smart Autonomy offering combines autonomous mobile robot (AMR) forklifts and reach trucks, software, and remote teleoperation capabilities to autonomously handle materials movement within warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing facilities. The materials handling technology is flexible out of the box to handle variability in facilities, processes, and product characteristics.
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Next-Gen Logistics: AI and Innovation Trends in 2024
The logistics industry is on the brink of a major transformation, fueled by artificial intelligence and technological advancements. These changes target improvements in operational efficiency and customer experience. As these trends emerge, they’re reshaping logistics from its traditional role into a key driver of business success and customer satisfaction.
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IN BRIEF: New Services and Solutions
Clustag’s MOT Station can drive inventory accuracy up to 99.92% and scan 400 tags per case at speeds of up to 1,000 cases per hour. The RFID-based solution for distribution centers and warehouses aggregates three pieces of data—RFID identification, case volume, and case weight—to improve the inventory management process.
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What Tech Trends Should You Prioritize?
Logistics organizations remain under pressure to control costs while dealing with unprecedented labor challenges. Historically, few have prioritized technology investment to help address these sorts of issues.
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Bringing Order to Chaos: DDC FPO Unleashes the Power of Unstructured Data
Powered by machine learning, the latest addition to DDC FPO’s technology suite swiftly cleanses and structures unstructured data into crucial insights.
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How to Future-Proof Your Supply Chain from Freight Embargoes
With CarrierConnect XL and transit service alerts, shippers can make better decisions during a freight embargo to mitigate disruptions in less-than-truckload service.
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Leveraging Predictive Analytics to Gain a Competitive Edge
Predictive analytics helps companies make better decisions. The key is to have good data. For example, enterprises can use data to predict how much demand there will be for their products or services, how much capacity they need, how to manage inventory, and how to avoid risks.
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Custom Dashboard Provides Rail Data Insights and Boosts Efficiencies
RSI Logistics developed a custom dashboard tailored to meet its client’s needs with unmatched precision and accuracy, enabling them to make firm, data-driven decisions that ignited confidence.
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IN BRIEF: New Services and Solutions
Origify from Bosch lets manufacturers give sneakers and other high-value products a digital fingerprint as early as the production or packaging phase. The authentication solution photographs each product and converts the image into a binary and non-manipulable data record of a few kilobytes, which is stored in a cloud.
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8 Steps to Cracking the Traceability Code
As supply chain disruptions and competition increases at a global scale, supply chain visibility has become vital for business success. Lack of visibility along the supply chain not only poses a risk to the seamless flow of goods but also raises concerns about product quality and overall productivity. With only 13% of manufacturers having full visibility into their supply chain network, it’s important to manage this challenge.
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Dark Data Illuminates the Supply Chain
In the sprawling cosmos of logistics and transportation, there’s a vast, uncharted territory: dark data. This term refers to the untapped, unprocessed information that fleets, freight systems, and supply chains generate but never use. Think of it as the digital equivalent of dark matter in the universe—invisible, yet its potential gravity can pull industries into a new era of enlightenment.
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