Papers

Growing importance of AI & automation AI can increase workplace safety by taking on monotonous and riskier tasks. It can also be an assistant, reducing human fatigue and improving the quality of work.1 AI systems, powered by machine learning, robotic and vision technologies, can pick, pack, and sort pro-ducts around the clock to keep up with demand. It can utilize mined data to plan, process, and predict productivity and problems. Overall, AI can help cut costs while maintaining or even exceeding...

Companies are focusing on long term supply chain resilience by adjusting their inventory management strategies to better insulate themselves from an unpredictable global supply chain. Download this guide to learn more.

Inventory Management refers to the processes in a warehouse that monitor inventory from the moment it enters the warehouse up until it leaves the warehouse as a packaged order. Download this guide to learn more.

This whitepaper examines some of the best practices for making the return area of your distribution center as efficient as possible.

In this paper/datasheet/case study, we describe, whether connecting to a carrier with API or EDI messaging, you’re looking for effective, responsive shipment data that can streamline decision-making throughout all parts of the shipment lifecycle.

Supply chain and procurement leaders enter 2023 with a lot on their minds. The business outlook, stressed by war, inflation, interest rate changes, and more, will prompt many firms to take a cautious approach. Leaders from supply chain and procurement leaders will wield their supply chains to advance social causes and their corporate values. They will accelerate ESG outcomes, and they will accelerate digital transformation. These leaders hold the keys to unlocking a brighter and more productive future. This is their...

A report on sustainability initiatives that go back six years.

To improve Supply Chain performance, the time has come for those involved to collaborate and pool their resources, see the details in this ebook.

In this paper, we discuss why a holistic, “TMS+” approach is integral to success in the new normal and beyond, outline how the TMS+ breaks down silos to optimize across inventory, transport, logistics, and order management concurrently, intelligently, and in a timely and relevant manner for cost, service, risk, and sustainability.

As you begin your OMS selection journey, there are key items to keep in mind to ensure the process is effective and beneficial from both a solution and partner point of view, while the problems and process may seem complex, the answer is simple – an OMS is necessary for omnichannel success and following the proper steps can ensure a successful system selection.

Dealing with labor scarcity and overwhelming productivity demands? Robots may be your ideal solution. Warehouse Robotics White Paper, Vanderlande White Paper, Robotics sortation.

This ebook is for accounts payable (AP) and procurement professionals looking to leverage AI-driven supplier management automation to improve cashflow, strengthen supplier relationships and promote continuous, scalable growth.

The next frontier in warehouse automation is orchestration. It's the difference between an automated warehouse and a warehouse that is truly harnessing the power of automation. Warehouse orchestration seamlessly integrates various automation technologies with people and processes to drive real-time actions in a way that is intelligent, optimized and efficient. Download this paper to learn more.

Robotic Automation for Order Picking. The warehouse fulfillment orchestration platform allows bots to travel along an optimized path to multiple locations and floors to allow the correct picks & transfers at the right time. Inventory visibility and control that allows your operations to process all inventory from a single area seamlessly. Download this ebook to learn more.

Warehouse receiving processes can make or break a company's ability to service its customers.

Implementing this goods-to-person automated storage and retrieval technology improves customer experience, optimizes operations, and maximizes profitability.

In the study, supply chain researchers from 4flow investigate optimization strategies for balancing air and sea transportation in variable-volume supply chains in the manufacturing industry.

We’ve taken the guesswork out of warehouse contingency planning with this downloadable editable template; from performing a risk assessment to testing out mock emergency scenarios, we’ve detailed every step of the process and made it easy for you to document policies and procedures, so you’ll know exactly what to do should disaster strike.

Growing geopolitical competition and conflict could actually demonstrate the need for greater international cooperation, disruption may be the new economic driver, but it creates opportunities, not just threats, Leaders must be prepared to meet the challenge of this disruptive age.

The period from mid-2020 to the fourth quarter of 2022 was a high-water mark for the container shipping industry, and with it came unprecedented turmoil, disruption, and prosperity, and that period was, above all, a period of extremes: extreme rate rises, extreme container and labor shortages, extreme delays, extreme congestion, and extreme chaos for exporters and importers alike, this time it's different.