You’ve heard all the buzzwords before: 3D printing, the internet of things, UAVs (drones) and driverless vehicles. Writers and media people jump on the slightest hint of an emerging trend in logistics as fodder for their insatiable appetite for content. But they soon move on to the next latest thing. Most of these trends have…
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What does your company sell? Whether you’re making handmade jewelry in your basement or you’re a major manufacturer of consumer products, you’re actually “selling” the same thing. Yes, your products and services are what your customers buy. But they can probably find the same or very similar products elsewhere. So what “sold” them is not…
Did you hear the one about UPS? The one where they spend over $1 billion a year on big data applications, technology and infrastructure? If you tend to scan over headlines like that, you wouldn’t get nearly the full picture of UPS’s investment. It turns out UPS spends over $1 billion per year on just…
As if logistics companies don’t have enough disruption in their industry, from warehouse automation and ecommerce, to driver shortages and omni-channel logistics, it seems like there are new trends emerging every day, each one adding its own twist to the business of 3PLs. Unlike five or 10 years ago, if logistics companies want to stay…
In a recent post on the Camcode blog, they posed the question “When it comes to improving warehouse productivity, the most important thing for companies to remember is…” to a variety of warehousing industry insiders, from technology experts to shelving specialists. It’s a good read and you’ll get way more than 7 tips for improving…