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SCN Summit: Future of Supply Chains Kicks off Today
SCN Summit features industry experts and thought leaders from the supply chain space to talk future of supply chains, what’s in store for logistics companies, trends and technologies in logistics and more.
Warehousing
Advancements in Voice Picking Maximize the Value of Wearables
Micro-Fulfillment
The Key to Reimagining E-Commerce Micro-Fulfillment
Emerging Technologies
4 Ways UHF RFID Can Accelerate Supply Chains and Logistics
Webinars
SCN Summit: Future of Supply Chains
December 5, 2022
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Retail
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Retail
Not-so-Happy Holidays? A Look at Retailers’ Solutions
What had been a promising economic rebound is now suffering from higher prices, sharp inflation and rising interest rates—bringing rumblings of a potential new recession. Here's what that means for retailers.
Retail
Forward Logistics in Reverse: How to Boost Performance Through Sustainability
The reverse logistics challenge was a $760 billion problem in 2021. Solutions are still highly fragmented, full of inefficiencies and a drag on the back end of the supply chain. Sustainability can be a way to turn this challenge into an opportunity.
Sourcing & Procurement
Nominations Close Dec. 30 for Supply & Demand Chain Executive's 2023 Pros to Know Award
Are you or someone in your organization an outstanding leader, reinventing what it means to be a supply chain professional? Get them nominated by Dec. 30.
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Warehousing
What to Know About Virtual Warehousing
While many companies search for insurance plans to protect against future supply chain issues, virtual warehousing is one solution that is gaining increasing popularity.
Automation
Many Companies Remain Unsatisfied with DC Automation
A recently released Softeon study on user perceptions of distribution center automation and software found that only 12.9% of companies are satisfied with their current levels of DC automation.
COLD CHAIN
5 Benefits of Temperature Monitoring for the Cold Chain
Improving the supply chain is an ongoing process, but temperature monitoring has been proven to be increasingly valuable for all handlers in the industry.
Material Handling Equipment
Fortna and MHS Global Join Together as a Single Company
The companies bring together decades of experience in the design, development and delivery of omnichannel and parcel distribution solutions, offering customers a uniquely versatile end-to-end path forward.
Micro-Fulfillment
Getting Armed for Omnichannel Success
Omnichannel fulfillment becomes more complex every day. Success lies in finding innovative and cost-effective ways to distribute high-volume consumer and retail goods.
Material Handling Equipment
Raymond High Capacity Orderpicker Offers Intralogistics Solutions
The Orderpicker features an elevated height of 456 inches that allows for increased rack storage access to 11% more pick slots.
Warehousing
Plug-and-Play Robotic Case Handler to Simplify Warehousing
QuickBot depalletizer – or QB, as it has been nicknamed – automates warehouse receiving operations with robots through easy installation and can be picking cases within a few hours.
Retail
5 Strategies to Optimize Reverse Logistics
Reverse logistics should be a crucial part of every supply chain, and companies who can successfully implement it across their facility will have a strong competitive advantage in the e-commerce industry.
Material Handling Equipment
Toyota Material Handling Launches Operator Awareness Tech
The Toyota-designed operator assist technologies work both passively and actively to enhance operability, productivity and situational awareness.
E-Commerce Solutions
MatrixScan Count Enables Accurate Scanning, Counting of Multiple Items
The built-in UI in MatrixScan Count means that enterprises can start using the solution immediately with minimal development time.
Last-Mile
How Key Technologies Helps Logistics Companies Conquer the Last Mile
The last mile is the most inefficient leg of the logistics journey, but accounts for 53% of the overall costs. How can logistic companies conquer the last mile and overcome these challenges?
AI/AR
AI for Warehouse Management: Getting Ahead of Supply Chain Challenges
Now is the time for retailers to invest in predictive AI that allows them to reap major benefits across the omnichannel supply chain, quickly and correctly executing the movement of goods.
Automation
Ship Central to Optimize Packing-to-Delivery Process
Ship Central provides end-to-end capabilities for picking, packing and shipping products
E-Commerce Solutions
Linnworks Acquires SkuVault, Expands Omnichannel Presence
The combination of the two companies will provide a number of key product capabilities in order management, inventory management, analytics and forecasting, warehouse management and 3PL support.
Warehousing
Warehouse Storage Expansion: Creating Supply Resilience with Cost-Effective Options
With storage, logistics and distribution facilities strained to the limit today, managers are looking to cost effectively optimize operations without leasing more space or expanding the buildings with new construction.
Automation
From Goods-to-Persons Systems to Goods-to-Robots Solutions
Bastian Solutions SmartPick combines advanced artificial intelligence, powerful machine vision, dynamic end of arm tooling, a six-axis robot and seamless software integration to turn a GTP system into a highly efficient GTR.
Software & Technology
Digital Inventory Report Highlights Supply Chain Insights
Study reveals mixed results relating to inventory automation, inventory management challenges, cloud migration and the future state of the industry.
WMS/TMS
How WMS Helps Modern Retailers Achieve Better ROI
Supply chains of the future have to be shorter, focused, and agile. They need to be intuitive to allow instant decision-making, without much awareness, and intelligent to analyze past data to make calculated decisions for long-term stability and growth.
Retention
Generation Gap Leading Cause of Labor Shortage in Warehouses
Over half (51%) of executives believe implementing automation will increase employee satisfaction, and 43% believe it will lead to a decrease in employee turnover, while 85% currently using robotics are planning to increase their investment.
Software Solutions
Wireless Networks Play an Important Role in a Coherent Warehouse
If the past two years of the pandemic—and pandemic-related supply chain issues—have taught us anything, maximizing efficiency through wireless connectivity should be a warehouse manager’s top priority.
Warehousing
How a New Approach to Inventory Helps Meet Chip Shortage Challenges
From life-saving equipment to the technologies used to improve daily life, semiconductors are the backbone of progress in today's world.
Material Handling Equipment
Automated Shuttle System to Optimize Micro-Fulfillment Services
Medius is designed for businesses that want to increase storage density or establish an automation operation capable of rapid delivery that is scalable and modular.
Top Supply Chain Projects
Top Supply Chain Projects: Verusen AI Creates Harmony Through 400,000 Different SKUs, 55 Facilities
Verusen gives insight into how its artificial intelligence solution is able to create true transparency for a client across 55 different facilities and more than 400,000 SKUs. The project was selected as one of SDCE's Top Supply Chain Projects of 2022.
Robotics
Warehouse Robotics: Creating an Efficient Supply Chain and Logistics for E-Commerce
An efficient supply chain management is the key to the smooth functioning of an e-commerce business. The modern trend of delivering the goods and services in the shortest time possible has significantly increased the burden on the supply chain system.
Robotics
Best Co-Worker Ever: Partnering People With Technology for the Warehouse of the Future
This case study dives into how Carhartt partnered with DHL Supply Chain to keep up with a quick consumer demand increase and drive speed to market.
Automation
Dark Site Management Tool Helps Retailers Manage Closed Locations
The new tool allows for asset tracking, risk management and mitigation, compliance, lease management, vendor management and remote monitoring.
Warehousing
Growth of Warehousing Industry Prompts New WMS
Pivotree releases a new WMS that focuses on frictionless operation, as it is able to support with numerous brands and warehouses on a single, shared SaaS infrastructure.
Warehousing
2022 State of the Supply Chain
Today's supply chains are in crisis mode, and industry experts are already anticipating struggles for 2022 into 2023. Download this FREE whitepaper and discover the opportunities and threats of the New Year.
Automation
Automation Pivotal to Future-Proofing Warehouse Operations
Amid growing labor shortages, shifting priorities and expedited growth, organizations are shifting their business models to take advantage of advanced technologies and robotic systems.
Warehousing
Frontline Workers Gravitate Towards Better Technology
New research shows that warehouse workers will go where the modern and tech-focused equipment is, even if it makes a pay cut, as long as it helps them do their job better.
