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What was your biggest headache during the depth of the Covid-19 pandemic? For many forklift fleet managers, it was the constant churn among lift truck operators. Six-month turnover of 100% with daily absentee rates of 30% or more was not…
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Enterprise software vendor SAP SE today released a suite of “game-changing” artificial intelligence (AI) features for business applications, including collaborative agents, knowledge graph capabilities, and generative AI developer…
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The manufacturing and supply chain software vendor QAD Inc. today said it has acquired Phenix Software Inc. in a move to help manufacturers improve productivity and accelerate factory performance.The cloud-based solution, now called QAD…
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The two groups “have reached a tentative agreement on wages and have agreed to extend the Master Contract until January 15, 2025 to return to the bargaining table to negotiate all other outstanding issues. Effective immediately, all…
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Demand for warehouse and industrial space continued to slump in the third quarter as the overall national industrial vacancy rate edged higher, climbing 30 basis points (bps) to 6.4%, according to the latest research by Cushman &…
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The warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico are brewing up another massive storm this week that is on track to smash into the western coast of Florida by Wednesday morning, bringing a consecutive round of storm surge and damaging winds to the…
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Shippers and carriers at ports along the East and Gulf coasts today are working through a backlog of stranded containers stuck on ships at sea, now that dockworkers and port operators have agreed to a tentative deal that ends the…
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Facing rising demand for the liquid cooling devices need to manage computer chips in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud data centers, the manufacturing and supply chain solution provider Jabil Inc. has acquired the New Hampshire tech…
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Economic activity in the logistics industry expanded for the 10th straight month in September, reaching its highest reading in two years, according to the latest Logistics Managers’ Index (LMI) report, released this week.The LMI…
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Dockworkers at dozens of U.S. East and Gulf coast ports are returning to work tonight, ending a three-day strike that had paralyzed the flow of around 50% of all imports and exports in the United States during ocean peak season.In…
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