Tag: Warehousing
Robot start-up wants to make delivery services profitable
Munich A Munich logistics company wants to make express delivery services such as Gorillas and Flink profitable: With the Noyes system, the delivery services could partially automate their warehouses. “We…
Why they are not worthwhile for companies
plastic parts Many companies hoard important primary products. (Photo: obs) All of us are probably familiar with the situation over the past few years: when you go shopping in the…
How companies are exacerbating the bottlenecks
steel production After a small setback at the turn of the year, prices climbed to a new record high. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf, Stuttgart 19 percent more sales at BASF, 44…
How companies are exacerbating the bottlenecks
steel production After a small setback at the turn of the year, prices climbed to a new record high. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf, Stuttgart 19 percent more sales at BASF, 44…
Amazon wants to deliver more reliably again
Dusseldorf Amazon boss Andy Jassy sounded the alarm back in the fall. In view of the worldwide delivery bottlenecks, he announced additional costs in the billions – also due to…
Edeka boss tightens the tone in the price negotiations
Dusseldorf Almost every food manufacturer is currently complaining about increased logistics costs. The freight capacities are scarce and expensive, the delivery costs have risen in double digits. This is one…
The dark side of globalization
Global supply chains used to be the last thing policymakers worried about. For a long time, it was almost exclusively economists who were concerned with the potential efficiency gains and…
“Rail has to expand small-scale traffic” – forwarders Jens and Felix Fiege call for a turnaround in traffic
Forwarders Jens and Felix Fiege (from left) “We are convinced that the future growth in transport can no longer take place exclusively on the road.” Photo: Fiege Greven In the…
“Rail has to expand small-scale traffic” – forwarders Jens and Felix Fiege call for a turnaround in traffic
Forwarders Jens and Felix Fiege (from left) “We are convinced that the future growth in transport can no longer take place exclusively on the road.” Photo: Fiege Greven In the…
“Rail has to expand small-scale traffic” – forwarders Jens and Felix Fiege call for a turnaround in traffic
Forwarders Jens and Felix Fiege (from left) “We are convinced that the future growth in transport can no longer take place exclusively on the road.” Photo: Fiege Greven In the…
Autonomous transport robots are going into mass production
Munich Hundreds of mobile transport robots are on the move in the new digitally networked flagship factory “Factory 56” from Mercedes. In Sindelfingen, for example, the autonomous machines bring the…
Supply chain problems in world trade are coming to a head
Container port in the UK In the country, a total of 77 percent of companies would have to adapt their supply chains. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to a DIHK survey,…
Can robotic warehouses make delivery services profitable?
Geesthacht Red robot trolleys roll over a grid of aluminum rails as if controlled by magic. They almost whiz past each other, one of them seems to have decided to…
Supply bottlenecks: Logisticians are planning an early warning system
Dusseldorf The devastating shortage of semiconductors in the automotive industry is giving rise to plans in logistics to set up an early warning system that works worldwide. “We are working…
Start-up Interos wants to prevent delivery bottlenecks with an early warning system
Jennifer Bisceglie With her AI start-up Interos, Jennifer Bisceglie became a unicorn entrepreneur. (Photo: Interos) Dusseldorf Jennifer Bisceglie’s business model has become indispensable for internationally networked companies – at least…