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CHICAGO — ProMat 2023 is well underway, and the announcements have been coming fas and furious.
The massive trade show, running this week for the first time since 2019, features 1,000 of the top supply chain and logistics companies pitching their latest and greatest solutions to tens of thousands of guests.
As you can imagine, the 500,000-square-foot show floor is jam-packed with firms across industries like robotics, automation, manufacturing, assembly, delivery, fulfillment and information...
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Inside this edition: Sustainability measures become costly; fully automated warehouses could be the answer; and Walmart’s freshest collab.
Some interesting news came out of the Securities and...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-sustainability-at-what-cost
If you have ever ordered online, chances are you have received a package that was too big for its own good.
That might not seem like a big deal at first glance. But whether retailers realize it or not, oversized packaging is tanking their transportation efficiency.
“Shipping efficiency to a large degree is a function of how the packaging is performing,” Hanko Kiessner, founder and chairman of Packsize, told Modern Shipper.
According to research from Packsize, the average e-commerce package is 40%...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/proof-is-in-the-packaging-transportation-issues-begin-in-warehouse
German logistics giant DB Schenker has hired Katharina Rath as its chief human resources officer.
She also will serve as a member of the Schenker AG management board.
Levin Holle, chairman of Schenker’s supervisory board, called Rath “an internationally experienced expert in various fields of HR.”
Rath is joining DB Schenker from Continental Automotive Technologies. With Continental for almost two decades, she most recently has been the senior vice president of human relations, automotive...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/career-tracks-db-schenker-hires-hr-expert