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As the importance of an autonomous power supply grows, driven by the EU's Green Deal to reduce net emissions of greenhouse gases to zero by 2050, and the increasing importance of e-commerce, warehouse optimization is becoming increasingly important. While planning, controlling and coordinating the value chain of your own company was previously the main task, the optimization of processes and warehouse efficiency is now becoming even more important. The drivers of this development are flexible and quick reactions to the market. Globalization and e-commerce are both opportunities and challenges. Developments and changes are occurring more quickly than before.
The complexity of things has also increased. Automation is part of the solution. The other part is gathering information and assessing when and where changes, adjustments and changes in strategy are necessary and make sense.
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Automating such processes is only part of the solution. Structures and management must also be put to the test. But above all, it is important that people do not lose control and overview.
Strategies for effective storage – the basis for successful warehouse management
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In goods receipt, the goods are identified, checked and prepared for storage in a multi-stage process. As a rule, due to the close cooperation between warehouse logistics and suppliers, preliminary information about the incoming goods is already available, so that identification can be carried out by comparing barcodes or similar. The prerequisite for the simplified check using a scanner is the setting up of a numbering or bar coding that can be clearly interpreted by both parties. If this is missing, the check must be carried out manually.
After the received goods have been checked with regard to procurement and quantity, quality control takes place. This process sometimes varies greatly - depending on the type of item delivered - and can range from a superficial check to a detailed analysis of individual or even all goods.
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Digitalization as the driving force, logistics as the key component. What will be crucial for the future will be how we secure the infrastructure of our key industries!
It started in 1988 with application-oriented knowledge processing, which dealt, among other things, with AI.
Industry development : From testing machines and test systems to logistics/intralogistics and the photovoltaics industry, we developed further.
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Xpert.Digital is a hub for industry, with a focus on digitalization, mechanical engineering, logistics/intralogistics and photovoltaics. With our 360° business development solution, we support well-known companies from new business to after sales, market intelligence and smarketing are part of our digital tools.
Over the decades we have developed comprehensive know-how in the areas of smart grid/city/factory, photovoltaics and logistics/intralogistics. With the EU's Green Deal , the solar requirement for new buildings and the autonomous power supply ( see CO2 tax ), we can present ourselves to you as a partner and a sustainably grown company that doesn't just jump on this bandwagon because of the latest headlines.
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Returns management: Manage returns fully automatically – desire & reality
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Returns cost. Money, capacity and nerves. That's why online retailers always strive to keep the return rate as low as possible. There are plenty of suggestions for this: more personalization in the shop, more precise product descriptions in words and pictures, transparent shipping costs, fast delivery and attractive packaging are just a few of them. But even this will not protect a company from not having to process any returns at all in the future.
What is needed are ways in which the effort for returns management can be kept as low as possible. Since the volume of returns is very high, especially for large online retailers, despite all the preventative measures, it is advisable to largely automate the process in order to reduce processing costs. But there is still a long way to go before this can be fully implemented. Here we show some options that are already moving in this direction.
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Plan photovoltaics for warehouses, commercial halls and industrial halls
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Whether it's a flat roof or a pitched roof, everything is free of roof penetration.
Politicians are getting serious, the new climate protection law, the heart of the Green Deal , is driving measures and developments forward. Legal regulations for new commercial buildings with photovoltaics requirements already apply in some federal states.
What is roof penetration free?
With a roof-penetration-free photovoltaic roof installation, no holes have to be drilled through the roof or other interventions have to be made. Sloped gable and monopitch roofs, which are designed with bitumen or foil covering, could previously hardly be realized without roof penetration or only with great effort.
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Logistics acceleration of e-commerce and turbo for smart cities
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E-commerce, initially laughed at and neglected, has transformed not only the global world but also the Internet into a “local” shopping center and at the same time completely changed our habits and expectations.
Without digital platforms, our world would be unthinkable today. Who still remembers going to the video store, where today we just pull out the remote control and use Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and all the online video offers? Many people book their trips almost exclusively online and don't even go to the local travel agency. And of course, we already generally order gifts, devices and other accessories online, including from Amazon, eBay and Google.
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The lessons of the crisis: Logistics as a key factor
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The corona pandemic is inevitably driving forward digital transformation, especially in the “key industries”, i.e. those industries that are of particularly great economic importance due to their innovative strength, size and interconnections with other sectors of the economy. The focus is on logistics: Although many companies have reduced their production, logistics must maintain supply chains and flows of goods. But while new working models such as home offices and virtual meetings have made their triumphant progress in other areas, the supply chain is still struggling with digitalization. The time is too short to adapt all capacities and stocks to the new challenges. This is all the more serious because consumer behavior has changed, which has been made clear by the temporary sales of numerous goods such as toilet paper, disposable gloves and disinfectants. The wheels of order, planning, production and delivery no longer meshed with each other.
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Robotics & automation in the warehouse
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The megatrends of digitalization, automation and autonomization will also shape logistics processes in the future. Increasingly precise sensors and more powerful software will enable systems that do the work of human specialists in more and more areas. The step towards a camp without people?
Not entirely unlikely, as development is already well advanced. For many people, robots have become an integral part of everyday life. The use of industrial robots has long been standard in the manufacturing industry. Logistics still had some catching up to do here. This is mainly because robots are more or less blind and deaf. It is not that they lack strength, but that they lack human senses. And in order to function smoothly in the warehouse, future generations of robots will have to master these senses.
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