Logistics: Media

Inventory can include products that a company makes and sells, products that it purchases and resells, and products that it sells on consignment. Through this video, viewers will learn how companies manage their goods as illustrated by a consignment shop, a large grocery store, a hardware store, a construction company, a chemical plant, a jewelry store, a gas station, and a boutique clothing store.
 

Algorithms control activities in the Accardo warehouse. Technology Director Paul Clarke explains how the system operates and Professor Marcus du Sautoy identifies the algorithms at work.
 

This BBC series on building various consumer automobiles features segments such as "Logistics Problem Solving," "Moving Finished Cars," and "Autonomous Automobile Safety."
 

Volvo Trucks is leading the way for the use of automated trucks in logistics. Multiple trucks can drive together through a method called platooning, garbage trucks can navigate through cramped urban streets without a driver, and hybrid trucks can go into electric mode and release zero emissions.
 

We've heard a lot of rhetoric lately suggesting that countries like the US are losing valuable manufacturing jobs to lower-cost markets like China, Mexico and Vietnam—and that protectionism is the best way forward. Logistics specialist Augie Picado gives us a reality check about what global trade really looks like and how shared production and open borders help us make higher quality products at lower costs.
 

Every day, ships, trains, trucks, and planes deliver the goods. The loading dock is a point of contact, the interface where transportation and storage hook up. For early civilizations almost all labor was performed by hand. Today's loading and unloading are highly mechanized and often completely automated processes.
 

In this program, host Libby Potter travels around the world as she takes a meaningful look at the economics behind the inexpensive goods for sale in big-box stores and malls. Cost cutting through supply chain management and waste reduction, economies of scale achieved by shipping offshore-manufactured goods to market via super-container ships, the Wal-Mart effect, and the no-frills philosophy of IKEA are addressed.
 

Nearly everything you use, buy, or consume made its way to you by sea. Shipping accounts for 90 percent of all trade movement. It literally keeps the global economy afloat. In this special program, we take a rare glimpse into an industry that remains largely under the radar.
 

This program is a thrilling investigation carried out around the globe. It takes us behind the scenes of the sea shipping business, revealing the mechanics and perils of a powerful, secret and highly unregulated industry that holds the key to our global economy, our environment and the very model of our civilization. 90% of everything we consume comes from overseas, which makes sea shipping the true backbone of today’s globalized economy.