What will 10,000 robots affect to Amazon?

During our childhood, anyone would have imagined that robots like "Doraemon" might appear around us one day.

It is shown in the case that Amazon purchased Kiva Systems for $775 million in 2012. They aimed to automate their own logistics center by implementing robots, since they function automatically.

It’s no exaggeration to say that this concept, robots and people working together, shows that people have got one step closer to robots.

The Secret to Survive Last-Mile War

There is a company which does the way of “troublesome work on purpose”. Yamazaki Baking Co. Ltd. which is major baking company is the one. In normal case, retailer offers logistics provider for the logistics between distribution center and shop because it takes labor. But Yamazaki Baking never let go of this logistics part. What is the reason?

International Airfreight Industry – Where is the hottest spot?!

It is fresh circumstance in our memory that Haneda airport became international in 2010.

Today, 4 years passed after that, the volume of international air freight is growing due to increasing of international flights.

Also because Haneda airport is closer to the city center than Narita airport, it can be considered that the benefit of convenience and time reduction helps the increase of international air freight volume.

HACCP – Global Standard Attracting Attention for Food Safety

The recognition of consumers for “relief and safety” is increasing year by year according to food cases such as AQLI Foods Corporation caused the incident of agricultural chemical contamination in 2013.

And also there are numbers of standards of quality or administration which are recognized as global standards such as GMP(*1) or ISO(*2). Especially for food, authorization of ISO22000 and “HACCP”(*3) are gathering attention.

The importance of the construction of logistics system and the rapid progress of IT

It is generally mentioned that logistics cost accounts for about 5-10% of the total product costs. We can find that it occupies a large portion of the product cost, though it is sometimes overlooked.

In other words, it is directly linked to the raise of the profit ratio of the company to build a best-logistics system and to keep the cost appropriately.

Here, we would like to explain about the importance of building logistics system and the existing circumstances of the accelerating IT implements in the logistics industry.

Supply Chain Analytics that are essential to logistics IT system

To construct the optimal supply chain, the presence of a logistics IT system is essential.  Utility of logistics IT system does not remain in some practical parts such as reduction of lead time or inventory management in real-time.  For example, it is available to use logistics IT system for analyzing of supply chain, so-called Supply Chain Analytics.

The 10 Points to Be Reconsidered for Reducing Logistics Costs

In logistics operation, cost reduction is one of the major themes, along with such as efficient use of space and shorten time loss.  We introduce the 10 points for reducing logistics costs.