Dear Amazon,

I'm writing you a letter today because I actually quite like you and have a few ideas on how you can make the environment less of a mess...

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Fachpack, the trade fair for packaging, processes and technology, was worth the trip to Nuremberg again this year: open discussions and exciting products, good weather...

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Everyone knows a ramp sow. Some are likeable solo entertainers, others are annoying. They enjoy the limelight and need attention like moths need light.

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Andreas Bullwinkel has been Managing Director of Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven JadeWeserPort-Marketing GmbH & Co. KG for five years. In the interview, Bullwinkel also addressed the topics of federalism and transport policy.

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It's okay to drive a pig through the village from time to time, as long as you leave the church inside. One of the bristling animals that has long been panting just beyond the end of the village is 4.0. Why is that?

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Dear readers, it's been a long, long time: LT-manager #1 was published in October 2010, with the 100 million euro man Michael ten Hompel on the cover, and off we went on a wild journey. Thank you for your loyalty and your interest in a magazine that does things differently.

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"2 Perspectives" is a new section in materialfluss: It comments on overarching topics that concern the industry and intralogistics in equal measure. This time with us: Andrea Gillhuber, Editor-in-Chief of SCOPE.

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Sometimes things happen quickly: Issue 5/18 of materialfluss had barely been published and with it our offer to Deutsche Messe AG to discuss the realignment of the former world's leading trade fair for intralogistics, also known as CeMAT, ...

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So many words have already been said on the subject of e-commerce, it feels like there must already be entire libraries somewhere (I'm guessing Bremen) with titles such as "Omnichannel, the unknown entity", "Internet: When digital meets real". Everything...

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Do you know Jan Philipp Albrecht? It's the Greens' European politician's fault that you were spammed by emails with consent forms at the end of May and are now even more perplexed - because you don't know what it's all about or because you don't understand the...

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You probably know the old saying: you can be part of the solution or part of the problem. Even intralogistics, which is dedicated to "hands-on" management, to picking up and delivering, is not always 100 percent on the side of the...

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From 2019, the truck toll will be increased, and noise and perhaps also congestion will cost extra. On top of this, 40,000 kilometers of federal roads will be subject to tolls in a few days' time and, not to forget, the car toll is already in the starting blocks. The billions...

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Eva Savelsberg, Head of Logistics at software company Inform, has caused a stir with her book "Agile optimization in companies: Managing the unplannable digitally" caused quite a stir. In an interview with LT-manager, the manager and...

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What did you think of CeMAT?" a reader asked me the other day. "It wasn't that difficult," I tried to joke, "I just asked my way through." For reasons of piety, of course, I saved myself the joke: De mortuis nihil nisi bene. CeMAT?...

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Let's be honest: isn't it the down-to-earth attitude and openness that characterize the intralogistics industry? Telling the truth and then working on the best solution? Despite fierce competition, at the end of the day you still have a beer...

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What does the future of online retail look like? Will e-grocery displace the branches of supermarket chains and what role will automation play in the future? These questions were the focus of a materialfluss round table at LogiMAT 2018 in Stuttgart.

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"Tasting awakens the desire to buy!" - the Greek tragedian Eurypides already knew this. This clever phrase has been around for around 2,400 years. It is impossible to date it more precisely, as timekeeping back then was somewhat less accurate than it is today.

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Call me a prophet! Because I already knew in advance that LogiMAT 2018 would break all records - even records that had never been broken before. For example, the worst trade fair logistics. Of all time. As a curious intra...

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There are just a few weeks between the intralogistics trade fairs LogiMAT and CeMAT. With the impressions from Stuttgart barely processed, the industry will soon be taking part in the restart of CeMAT - hopefully in large numbers. What's happening at the tail end of the Hanover...

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When LogiMAT closes its doors at 5 p.m. on March 15 and the diesel-powered forklifts haul away the sustainable, energy-efficient, ergonomic and whatnot exhibits, the trade fair organizers will have been smoking since 4 p.m. at the latest....

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