Dear readers! We present to your attention the sixth issue of Logistics for 2024. On its pages, we summarize the results of the international exhibition of logistics, transport, warehouse equipment and Logistika Expo, which became the main premiere of this year. Our editorial staff took part in the event, as a result of which they made useful acquaintances and found new readers. In the latest issue, we continue the topic of automation and robotization in the industry.
Dear friends! We present to your attention the fifth issue of Logistics for 2024. Like you, our dear readers, we see an increasing trend of digitalization and automation of the logistics industry, and more and more authors are paying attention to it.
Dear readers! We present to your attention the fourth issue of Logistics for 2024. On its pages, we summarize the results of the TransRussia | SkladTech 2024 exhibition, held from March 19 to 21 at Crocus Expo. The organizers and guests of the event claim that the exhibition is breaking new attendance records from year to year and improving its business program.
In the end of February the pilot project was successfully launched. Robotization of business-processes began from FM Logistic customer support service.
RPA technology (Robotic process automation) is based on the use of software robots and artificial intelligence: it undertakes routines previously performed manually with the algorithm of human actions used as the basis.
The bot integrated to the server does the following: it receives an e-mail request from a customer with an Excel document containing identification numbers attached to it. The customer needs the data on the driver and vehicle for their system in Mercury FGIS. The bot opens the e-mail, downloads the document and searches the transport system database using the data provided, then forms a response e-mail and sends it to the customer.
Currently FM Logistic is developing its own Competence Center for RPA development and further application for several areas: finance (for example, routine tasks in SAP and 1C), transport (processing of customer orders) and warehouse (automated uploading of information on the goods into customer databases).
Two more cases, which are being tested now, have been developed at FM Logistic for Transport Department. One of the bots works upon request: re-emails pallet labels to customer. The other automatically e-mails information on the orders to customer without any request. Besides, two more cases are being developed to fulfill the following warehouse tasks: changing of stock keeping units parameters in the WMS, reconciliation of data (goods dimensions) with customer documents, as well as automated uploading of information into the customer goods database, changing statuses of the orders.
It is planned to integrate all the tested cases to the server in the nearest future for autonomous work, as well as develop more cases and increase the number of robots.