Without delay, the news of the week:
The folks at Tecsys, a supply chain execution software vendor, sent me a whitepaper called Visual Logistics. The concept is simple: information displayed to warehouse workers on RF terminals should be more visual. Here is how picking information is typically displayed on a text-based RF terminal:
Traditional Text-Based RF Display (Source: Tecsys; click to enlarge)
Last Thursday, in commemoration of Earth Day, Penske Logistics, Dr. Robert C. Lieb, Professor of Supply Chain Management at Northeastern University, and Dr. Kristin J. Lieb, Assistant Professor of Marketing Communication, Emerson College, issued the “Third Party Logistics Sustainability Report.” The information is based on the 2008 and 2009 annual survey of forty 3PL CEOs conducted by Lieb and Lieb. The report contains a lot of interesting information, so… Continue reading
Our personal lives are increasingly becoming self-service. When was the last time you called or visited a travel agent to book a flight versus self-booking on Orbitz, Expedia, or an airline’s website? When you get to the airport, do you stand in line to check in at the counter or do you use the self-service kiosk? Do you bank online and use ATMs or do you stand in line at… Continue reading
The CEO and VP of Marketing of Airclic, a software-as-a-service provider of Mobile Resource Management (MRM) solutions, came in to brief us recently. One of the stories that caught my attention was how one of its customers, a waste collection company, uses the company’s solution.
The problem the customer was experiencing was that its drivers would go to an industrial dumpster, empty it, and move on with their… Continue reading
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