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Moving parts
Inventory management, a critical measure of the flow of freight through supply chains, is a tedious, labour-intensive and sometimes hazardous task, but technology can alleviate some of these pressures, according to Maersk.
The Danish transport group said that, to “take the pressure off its workforce and increase the accuracy of the count”, it had brought in an automated inventory management system designed by Switzerland-based Verity.
During the night, a Verity drone flies through a warehouse checking barcodes to update the warehouse management ...
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