Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2023

Pickle Robot , a Boston-based privately-held robotics company demonstrated its mobile trailer and container unloading robot. Blue Yonder was exhibiting its suite of supply chain software solutions, but my focus again was on solutions that support warehouse productivity. First stop, Pickle Robot.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2021

In April of 2005, just a month after completing my first half marathon (and vowing I would never run a full marathon in my life), I went to the finish line at the Boston Marathon and saw Team Hoyt for the first time. Team Hoyt became a fixture at the Boston Marathon, completing the race 32 times, while running another 40 marathons as well.

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Locus Robotics

JANUARY 31, 2025

Home January 31, 2025 Why 2025 Is the Year of the Smart Warehouse Hamid Montazeri , Sr. Co-authored by Hamid Montazeri and Mary Hart 2025 stands as a pivotal year for warehouses to transition into smart operations powered by artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous robots, and data analytics. VP, Software & A.I.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

A First-Hand Look at Berkshire Grey’s Warehouse Robotic Solutions ; Clint Reiser. The Boston area is a hub for warehouse robotics companies. The BG innovation center is an operating warehouse where the development team creates, tests, and enhances its solutions. Amazon Supply Chain Innovation Continues ; Chris Cunnane.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2023

I engaged in numerous discussions with robotics executives last year as I was developing ARC Advisory Group’s mobile warehouse robotics (AMR) research. CLINT: Mark, I came across many former Kiva Systems employees during my discussions with executives at warehouse robotics companies. I was a CAD jockey, designing systems at Philips.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. The list goes on and on.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 5, 2015

It goes without saying that warehouses need to find ways to prioritize workplace safety for the health and productivity of the workforce. The following is our top 10 list of ways warehouses can drive more efficient and productive warehouse operations: Consider Automation. Boston Consulting Group research shows 1.2

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2022

The great news for supply chain professionals looking to make their supply chains more sustainable: there are multiple options throughout their warehouse and transportation operation. They can even invest in simulation and modeling software that will help them plan green warehouses from the ground up and in the right location.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Micro-Warehouse Provider Pivots as Retail Consumer Market Shifts. Maybe try Boston next? The article states that Fabric customers communicated that they wanted to use Fabric technology directly in their own warehouses, rather than contracting with Fabric to serve as a 3PL managing fulfillment operations with Fabric technology.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 12, 2022

I was able to attend for a day due to my proximity to the Boston conference center in which it was held. The Association for Advancing Automation hosted the Autonomous Mobile Robots & Logistics Week (Co-located with the Vision Show), October 10-13. A Panel of Experts on Productization and Scaling.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As a Boston fan, Tom Brady forever changed my sports landscape. The Boston sports landscape shifted after that first Super Bowl and became the city of champions, with 12 total championships (6 by the Patriots, 4 by the Red Sox, and 1 each by the Celtics and Bruins). This time, however, he says it is for good.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2024

Sixteen years to the day, the Boston Celtics are once again NBA champions after dismantling the Dallas Mavericks in five games. bans exports by Oregon freight-forwarder in warning shot to industry Container losses fall to record low Warehouse wages rise to average of $18.99 The boys are back! percent, which is up from 5.7

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Locus Robotics

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

By Rob Press, Content Marketing Manager, Deputy In the supply chain, warehouses play a crucial role in receiving products from the source, storing them safely, and delivering them quickly and efficiently. The warehousing industry accounts for 8% of 2.8 million nonfatal work-related injuries a year !

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2022

This past Monday marked the first normal Boston Marathon since 2019, as the 2020 marathon was canceled due to the Covid pandemic, and the 2021 marathon was shifted to October with a smaller field. And what a race it was. Richard crossed the finish line at 2:52 pm, which was almost the exact time the bombs went off.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

This summer has been an interesting one weather-wise in the Boston area. And obviously this is not only in the Boston area. A few months ago, a British broadcaster reported that Amazon is destroying millions of items of unsold stock at one of its 24 UK warehouses every year, including smart TVs, laptops, drones, and hairdryers.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

About Martin Lew Martin Lew is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Commtrex, the largest tech-enabled logistics platform in North America (US, Canada, and Mexico) for shippers to directly connect with railroads, transloaders, storage facilities, lessors, rail service providers, warehouses, and industry data.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

The healthcare value chain was slow to respond—the majority of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was in Chinese warehouses. I gave thanks when the Patriots jet—championed by Mass General and Robert Kraft (owner of the Patriots)—landed in Boston with a million masks. China was the source of over 90% of PPE.) Evaluate Inventory.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

ThroughPut’s AI-powered Supply Chain software predicts Demand, reorients Production Capacity, reassigns Warehouse Space, and reorders Materials optimally, so businesses minimize overpromising and under-delivering. While supply chains create all the wonderful goods and services we enjoy, they also produce a lot of waste.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 7, 2016

In response to some challenges with provenance on their product, Boston-based seafood distributor Red’s Best created its own software to track where they get their fish, and where it goes once it leaves the warehouse. Salmon and shrimp aren’t even locally landed here in New England and we see requests for those every day.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

Ortiz was a larger-than-life figure in the Boston sports scene for 14 years, with more memorable moments than anyone other baseball player I can think of. And of course, there was his famous speech following the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, where he declared “this is our f—— city and nobody is going to dictate our freedom.”

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SCMDOJO

JULY 29, 2022

There is no limit on the order size due to the storage capacity: The warehouse might have two concerns ; the first is related to the capacity of the warehouse. The second is whether the warehouse is prepared to receive this product. Bixby Cooper , 3rd edition (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2009), 164; Michael H. Bowersox, David J.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the only supply chain publication covering the entire global supply chain, focusing on trucking, warehousing, packaging, procurement, risk management, professional development and more.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 19, 2013

As I write this, the greater Boston area (including where I live) is in lockdown as the police hunt for the second suspect of the Boston Marathon bombings (the first suspect was killed overnight). I’m amazed by how quickly the investigation has progressed, and how organized the response by law enforcement has been. Be Sociable, Share!

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 6, 2021

Water rushed into industrial areas extensively damaging facilities, machinery, and warehouses. To execute the concept, rapid, hyper-local delivery calls for centrally located ghost shops and employing in-house warehouse and delivery employees. These startups include Fridge No More, Gorillas, Jokr, and 1520.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

At strategic level, it''s used to find the best way to configure a supply chain network such as, - How many warehouse a company should have? Location and size of each warehouse? Product assignment to each warehouse? Location includes customers, suppliers, warehouse, manufacturing facilities, seaports, airports and so on.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 10, 2017

JDA Software, along with our partners Open Sky Group and DC Velocity , recently hosted a warehouse management system (WMS) and warehouse labor management (WLM) event in Boston, Massachusetts. It Would Be a Crime to Not Prepare Your Warehouse to Meet its Future. How JDA Can Help.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the only supply chain publication covering the entire global supply chain, focusing on trucking, warehousing, packaging, procurement, risk management, professional development and more.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Boston in known as The Hub - but it has really become the hub of warehouse robotics in the United States. MassRobotics and Humatics hosted The 2020 Logistics and Warehousing Executive Briefing. The post The Greater Boston Warehouse Robotics Cluster appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Automation in production facilities and warehouses was already underway, but I think having seen the human workforce out of commission will accelerate that process. Caroline Proctor is ToolsGroup’s chief marketing officer, leading global marketing and communications from ToolsGroup’s Boston office. Robots can’t get sick. .

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In early 2000 he entered the world of logistics – mostly implementing large software systems but due to his professional curiosity consistently asked to look at innovations in trucking and warehousing. It operates through four segments: Expedited, Dedicated, Managed Freight, and Warehousing. About Covenant.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Warehouse robots are just one form of warehouse automation , but they’re making a big impact. From greater flexibility and scalability to productivity gains, a faster ROI compared to other automation solutions and better resource management, warehouse robots are changing the face of warehousing.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 12, 2017

When we speak to supply chain leaders about innovations in their supply chain, it’s not always about drones, self-driving trucks, or automated warehouses. We have suppliers that provide the inventory to select warehouses and these warehouses supply customers at the appropriate time and place.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

BOSTON, Mass. Our services help clients develop the right supply chain strategy for their business challenges and implement the process and technology solutions to improve Demand/Supply Planning, Procurement and Sourcing, Logistics and Warehousing, and Reverse Logistics business performance. PRESS RELEASE. and HOUSTON, Tex.

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Kanban Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

And perhaps no element of the supply chain is more integral to the safety of pharmaceutical products than the warehouse. In this article, we’ll look at the ins and outs of pharmaceutical warehousing and tell you what you should look for in a third-party logistics (3PL) provider before entrusting your goods to its warehouse.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2023

For instance, the solution should optimize availability, fulfillment, source determination, routing, warehouse handling, and production capacity together and concurrently, focusing on minimizing Total Cost to Serve. She is best known for her boundless energy and ability to get things done.

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Kanban Logistics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the struggle to find warehouse workers had been a common theme in the logistics world. Now, instead of a mad scramble to hire, many warehousing companies are letting associates go. Many companies are continuing to lay off warehouse associates. The job cuts soon followed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2023

companies were further rattled after Chinese authorities recently questioned workers at Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Co. Experts say such sites will have to be clustered close to the state’s big ports and warehousing hubs. and raided the Beijing offices of Mintz Group, a due-diligence firm based in New York.

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