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Issue 5 2019 - FBJNA


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Ryder employs innovative start-up technologies in robotics that work alongside people to make point-to-point manual material handling easier and safer. (Ryder Photo.)


Drones, IoT, AI… all part of today’s warehouses


Drones fly around warehouses to crunch one- and two-day inventory audits into less than four hours. Internet of Things sensors


connect carriers, operators, inventory, and shipments for faster and more transparent product flow. Artificial intelligence and


“machine learning” analyze shipping patterns, weather,


trucks’ miles-per-gallon, and carbon output, to name just a few granular bits of data—and vast amounts of it—in today’s bold new digitized supply chain. “Data is the most broadly


disruptive solution right now,” says Andy Moses, Senior Vice President of Global Products at Penske Logistics. “I believe that Big Data and artificial


intelligence will disrupt all of the supply chain.” Digitization, says Steve


Barber, Vice President, IT


Customer Solutions at


Transplace, is “really becoming fast and furious right now.” He notes that the high-tech assets at Transplace have grown as much as 30% year over year in the last three years. “Digitization enables


automated processes,” he adds. “It enables a speed to value and a speed to market that really was not available even five to seven years ago.” At Ryder, those processes involve the likes of drones,


“Digitization is becoming


fast and furious right now.” -- Steve Barber, Transplace.


autonomous mobile robots, and autonomous-guided vehicles such as forklifts— all working together on an Internet of Things, or IoT, network. “Those types of technologies


are ready now that have a critical payback,” says Gary Allen, Vice President of Supply Chain Excellence at Ryder Supply Chain Solutions. Challenges, execs say, are


many, but Allen mentions a coincidentally curious one. “The drones that we’ve been


using have a 20- to 25-minute battery life, so


somebody to go out there in the warehouse and


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