5 warehousing sustainability trends for 2021

Warehousing trends include sustainability and automation.

Warehouse and logistics companies are trying to shore up their sustainability efforts as they struggle to change their inventory strategies from just in time to just in case during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are five trends in sustainable warehousing to look for when the dust settles.

Automation

As warehouse labor gets progressively tougher to find and the pandemic continues, warehouses are shifting to technology and automation to do some of the work. Wearable devices, such as those provided by...

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XPO Logistics deploys machine learning to optimize supply chain (with video)

XPO Logistics (NYSE: XPO) is leveraging technology solutions to meet shippers’ demand for speed and agility, along with inventory management and reverse logistics, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to accelerate interest in e-commerce purchases.

Mario Harik, chief information officer for the transportation and logistics giant, discussed the company’s tech strategy Thursday during a fireside chat with George Abernathy, president of FreightWaves. The conversation took place during American...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/xpo-logistics-deploys-machine-learning-to-optimize-supply-chain-with-video

Freight consolidator Shipco sweeps away LCL ‘touch points’

Shipco Transport

Paper documents still dominate much of the labor-intensive less-than-containerload (LCL) pickup and delivery process at U.S. container freight stations (CFSes), but the coronavirus pandemic and state government social distancing measures to prevent its spread are hastening the drive to create a totally paperless and contactless environment.

Shipco Transport and its CFS subsidiary International Container Terminals (ICT), which had prior to COVID-19 implemented a warehouse management application...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/freight-consolidator-shipco-sweeps-away-lcl-touch-points

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