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It might be considered a monstrous understatement to say that the freight transportation landscape has become pretty complex over the last few of years. Fluctuating rates, capacity constraints, the persistent labor shortage, Yellow’s bankruptcy and about a dozen other domestic and global events have all pushed transportation and logistics optimization further out of reach for many companies. In the meantime,…
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For my first 20 years of overseeing the editorial direction of Logistics Management, I took a firm stance against “year in review” issues. I thought that staying fixed in the present and understanding the current reality was of the utmost importance, so why use precious page space to rehash what was? Then we got blindsided by 2020, and a host…
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If you’re more than a little intrigued by the robotics and automation solutions you saw at ProMat in March, I’m going to venture a guess you might be planning a trip to Detroit later this month to attend Automate (May 22-25), an event that focuses on the latest in automation, robotics, AI and motion control. If you are, you’ve come…
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Here we are in 2023 and words like “chaotic,” “overwhelming,” and “uncertain” are still being used by top analysts to define the environment in which we find logistics professionals operating. There’s no doubt that the readers of Logistics Management have never been under more pressure to balance rates, capacity, and service, and the need to apply more technology to better…
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It’s been a few weeks since I returned from ProMat 2023 in Chicago and my head is still spinning. MHI, the show’s organizer, reports an overall registration count of 50,924 along with 1,051 exhibitors—and for those keeping score at home, that’s 12% more registered attendees than ProMat 2019. And what was the buzz? According to Modern’s recent “Warehouse Equipment Outlook…
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I think the Modern readers who found themselves among the 37,000 attendees walking the floor of Modex 2022 in Atlanta would agree: It was great to be back in the thick of things. Indeed, it was one of those events where you could feel the energy, hear the buzz. While it really wasn’t a long-shot, at the beginning of 2022…
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The impact of digital commerce cuts across every retail, manufacturing and distribution operation, and is putting pressure on all the major modes of transportation and the distribution center (DC) and fulfillment operations that keep supply chains fluid. To help keep pace, savvy logistics professionals are applying more supply chain management software and technology than ever to better manage the increasing…
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To say the pandemic has accelerated e-commerce might be the understatement of the decade. Everywhere you look data validates the idea that Americans are more comfortable than ever with point, click, buy—and it’s not stopping any time soon. According to Department of Commerce, e-commerce growth in the U.S. market was already up by 14.9% in 2019 year over year. The…
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In conversation after conversation, we continue to learn of the deep changes that e-commerce has ushered into logistics and transportation practices, from tightening up inventory and fulfillment management to elevating the importance of final-mile delivery and returns processes—and everything in between. To respond, logistics professionals now need to leverage diverse systems and new ways of thinking in an effort to…
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This month in Modern we offer the third in a series of three System Reports that examine the emergence of robotics in warehousing and distribution. Back in March, we featured a robotic layer-picking solution that L’Oreal is using to build mixed SKU pallets at its facility in Kentucky. Last month we went inside the operations of VSP, a high-volume optics…
From geometry preparation to AI-assisted analysis, integrated CFD workflows…
Software-based GripperAI manages mixed picking through basic geometry
Safety, communication and motion control components enable smooth operation
North America’s largest robotics and automation event winds down
