Logistics Strategy Today PUTTING TUGS AND CARTS TO WORK IN YOUR WAREHOUSE Need to optimize the flow of freight inside your distribution center? A tug-and-cart system might be the answer. Next time you find yourself sitting on an airplane, waiting to push back from the gate or taxiing across the tarmac toward takeoff, take a minute to study those tugs pulling baggage carts as they worm their way to and from the airport terminal. Imagine how much time, manpower and equipment it would take to move all of that “freight” between the planes and the terminal’s conveyors and carousels if the baggage were being transported just one or two pieces at a time. Sounds pretty inefficient, right? But that’s exactly the scenario playing out inside many distribution centers every busines

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