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Cognitive logistics - the new frontier

Automated warehousing, IT-enabled logistics and digitally transformed supply chains hold the key to a manufacturing economy push

Companies like DHL, Walmart and Amazon are already practising anticipatory logistics where demand is being forecast and sometimes even created by intelligent suggestions to customers 	Photo: Reuters
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Companies like DHL, Walmart and Amazon are already practising anticipatory logistics where demand is being forecast and sometimes even created by intelligent suggestions to customers Photo: Reuters

Ganesh Natarajan
The need for Industry 4.0 solutions to power a renaissance in manufacturing worldwide and particularly in India is well understood by all policy planners and industry CEOs in the manufacturing sector. Ubiquitous connectivity, devices connected by the billions to the Internet and new Internet of Things (IoT) applications are all providing the cyber push to make the cyber-physical future of the manufacturing world a reality. However, smart factories and heavily automated shop floors cannot by themselves provide the push to the manufacturing economy that is so necessary for a sustained economic boom to happen in the country. Automated warehousing, IT-enabled
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