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Three Key Questions for Site Selection and Facility Planning
Experts predict the U.S. will need to add anywhere from 330 million to 1 billion square feet of warehouse space over the next few years, as companies look to expand their distribution networks to meet growing consumer demands.
For Faster Deliveries, Don't Neglect the Middle Mile
The middle mile is becoming the heart of multichannel strategies.
Ensuring the Safety of Lithium Battery Shipments in E-Commerce
The use of lithium batteries, which power laptops, cell phones, medical equipment and more, continues to grow. The trend has brought with it stricter rules and harsher non-compliance penalties around lithium battery shipments, creating greater challenges for companies that manufacture and distribute them, and the technologies that rely on them. To maintain a safe and efficient supply chain in the face of these e-commerce challenges, companies need to rethink their approach to packaging.
Real-Time Warehouse Orchestration Improves Order-Fulfillment Times
The warehouse management system (WMS) market is mature, but these applications need added functionality to keep up with growing customer demand, transportation capacity issues and labor shortages. Current WMS software is insufficient for optimizing processes, such as balancing inventory, labor and space, that will lead to meeting customer requirements for on-time, in-full deliveries. Warehouse resource planning and scheduling needs to be used with the WMS to optimize and orchestrate activities within warehouse operations.
Driving Value in Your Supply Chain With Robotics and Automation
Autonomous robots move through a warehouse. Image: Shutterstock.
Five Success Factors for Human–Robot Collaboration in the Distribution Center
The key to implementing this new workforce of humans and robots is determining how work should be managed between humans and machines to garner the most success.
A warehouse worker puts items in a tote on an autonomous mobile robot (AMR). Photo by Lucas Systems.
U.S. Economic Growth Quickens With Inventory Boost
U.S. economic growth accelerated by more than forecast in the fourth quarter, fueled by the rebuilding of inventories and capping the strongest year since the 1980s.
Rows of inventory in a distribution warehouse. Photo: Bloomberg.
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Logistics Giants Are Turning to Remote-Run Forklifts Amid Labor Crunch
As omicron infections keep workers at home and labor shortages disrupt the world’s supply chains, two of the biggest logistics companies in the U.S. are looking to remote-operated equipment as a solution.
A driver operates a forklift remotely. Photo: Bloomberg.
AutoStore Unveils R5+ Robot, Expanding Bin-Handling Capabilities to Meet Warehouse Needs
AutoStore, a warehouse automation company, announces the arrival of its R5+ Robot.
Supply Chain Labor Shortage: Three Myths, and Three Must Do's
A divide has opened in the post-pandemic workforce — one that’s essential to understand.
Photo: Canva
The Grocery E-Commerce Surge Is Here to Stay
The pandemic has driven a cultural change in consumer behavior that's sticking around.
Food items in a refrigerator. Photo: Pexels.
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