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Design-Build
Cargo Theft Prevention: Don’t Overlook the Loading Dock
By integrating these pieces of equipment and making sure they work together as a system, facilities can greatly enhance cargo security, protect employees, reduce contamination and improve energy efficiency.
Emerging Technologies
Filling the Gaps that Wi-Fi and LTE Signals Don't Reach
3PL/4PL
Inventory Costs on the Rise, While Inventory Levels Decrease: Study
Material Handling Equipment
The Secret Weapon of Key Cabinets and Asset Lockers in Warehouses
Design-Build
Trends in Sustainable Warehousing to Cut Carbon Footprint
AI/AR
Simplifying with Data-Driven Warehouse Optimization
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Sourcing & Procurement
Nominations Open for 2024 Pros to Know Award
NEW THIS YEAR, this award recognizes Top 100 influential individuals in four distinct categories, whose accomplishments offer a roadmap for other leaders looking to leverage supply chain for competitive advantage.
Warehousing
SCN Summit: Future of the Supply Chain
December 5, 2023
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Register now to learn more about what's in store for 2024 and beyond. Topics revolve around Warehouse Automation, Supply Chain Visibility, AI, Cold Chain, Electrification and more.
Women in Supply Chain
Women in Supply Chain Forum: Better Together is Best
This year’s Women in Supply Chain Forum displayed that working together, collaborating together and learning from each other really is what’s best for the future of the supply chain.
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WMS/TMS
Why a Warehouse Management Solution Might be the Hero You Need
Luckily, with the rise of modern, flexible warehouse management systems (WMS), businesses can now tap into real-time data, automation and analytics to revolutionize their warehouse visibility.
Design-Build
Industrial Outdoor Storage: Key Strategies for Supply Chain Operators
By following these tips and remaining flexible, supply chain operators can navigate the challenges of the IOS market and find the space they need to keep their operations running smoothly.
Retail
7 Steps to a Sustainable Warehouse
Fully embracing these trends requires employee engagement and education in sustainability initiatives. Training programs and awareness campaigns are essential to encourage employees to adopt eco-friendly practices.
Manufacturing
Redesigning Your Supply Chain For Nearshoring
Pivoting to a nearshoring strategy requires redesigning your supply chain in a way that will protect the flexibility and efficiency of your operations.
Automation
Creating a More Productive Warehouse Operation
By optimizing warehouse operations, companies can improve their bottom line, increase their competitive advantage and provide better customer service.
Automation
Warehouse Visibility That Drives Actionable Insights
With real-time visibility into inventory levels, fulfillment statuses and consumer buying patterns, brands can optimize their fulfillment to drive better outcomes.
Packaging
How Real-time Visibility into Warehouse Operations Helps the Bottom Line
Whether in the context of physically optimizing the labelling and storage of items to simplify put-away and picking workflows or digitally automating inventory and returns management to catalyze data-driven decision-making.
Micro-Fulfillment
How Nano-fulfillment Centers Unlock New Opportunities
By reducing space and labor costs, nano-fulfillment centers can offer a cost-effective solution for businesses of all sizes.
Automation
3 Ways to Increase Your Warehouse Efficiency
With the ever increasing demands and needs of customers, making sound decisions and investments in warehouse productivity will be a key to staying competitive.
Warehousing
Seeing is Believing: All of the Sights at MHI's ProMat
When you think Chicago, do you think robotics? If you visited MHI's ProMat, you might. From Bastian's C18 automated forklifts to AutoStore's Bins, technology took the stage to show off all of the incredible strides being made in every facet of logistics.
Warehousing
Closed Loop Sustainability Program for Rack Recycling
Nucor Warehouse Systems announced its new corporate responsibility and sustainability initiative called Closed Loop Sustainability.
Design-Build
How Redistribution and Co-Warehousing Will Aid Excess Inventory in Warehouses
For merchants that have determined holding onto inventory is the best strategy for their company, there are two warehousing strategies proven to be beneficial for merchants both large and small: redistributing inventory and co-warehousing.
Waste Reduction
Practice Eco-Friendly Business Decisions to Move in a Sustainable Direction
In this virtual meeting, professionals gather to discover how they can be rethinking their supply chain strategies for 2023. Here is what I learned about sustainability practices for Supply Chains in 2023.
Pest Management
Using Odor Control to Help Deter Warehouse Pests
By being proactive with your facility maintenance, you are not only lowering the risk of a costly pest infestation, but also ensuring your product quality and business reputation are secure for your customer safety and satisfaction.
Design-Build
The Future of Warehouse Employment Relies on the Gig Economy
In order to stay afloat in today’s ever evolving labor landscape, companies must consider modernizing their warehousing employment model to help future proof their hiring processes.
Warehousing
Record Set in 2022 for Most Industrial Leases
In 2022, a record was set for 1 million square feet industrial leases. Over 63 leases were signed in 2022 and the average size of the place leased went up from 2021.
Software & Technology
6 Ways to Harness Human Behavior to Successfully Transform Supply Chains
Virtually every company is looking at their supply chains and assessing how to rebuild them to help ensure they are resilient enough to withstand further disruption, here are 6 ideas ways to improve supply chains in 2023.
Retail
Gen Z is Making Less Returns Than Millennials: Here's Why
Gen Z and Millennials have differences not only in how they shop but how they return as well. Could it be because of rising social anxiety rates from growing up in the pandemic? Research sheds some light on this question.
Warehousing
Healthcare Supply Chain 2023: Collaboration and Innovation Will Be Key to Transformation
Hospitals and health systems are looking towards the supply chain industry for solutions to mitigate the financial impact of the pandemic while facing a potential recession.
Sourcing & Procurement
2022 Supply Chain Content Rewind
From retail challenges to changes in warehousing design, here’s a look back at our most viewed content for 2022.
Warehousing
Four Ways to Improve Warehouse Operations with Video and Analytics
While your warehouse may already be equipped with video cameras, modernizing your system and turning them into intelligent, data-driven assets for your company can have a major impact on your operations.
Sustainability
Top 5 Articles of the Year: 2022
A huge thank you to Supply and Demand Chain Executive's readership in 2022. Here are the Top 5 most viewed articles from the year.
Micro-Fulfillment
How Evolving Global Seaport Regions Impact Industrial Real Estate
The CBRE Supply Chain Advisory group estimates that transportation accounts for 45-70% of total logistics costs. Locating distribution facilities near seaports can help to lower transportation costs.
Warehousing
Attracting and Retaining Workers is a Top Concern in Warehousing
A recent ProGlove survey found that 74% of warehouse leadership are concerned about maintaining productivity levels in the warehouse.
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.
Micro-Fulfillment
Average Size of Warehouse Leases Edge Close to Seven Digits
The activity points to expansion in the industry, particularly for traditional retailers and wholesalers.
Micro-Fulfillment
Most Warehouses Will be Fulfillment Centers by 2027
A total of 50,000 extra warehouses of over 50,000 square feet are projected to be added to the global warehouse stock between 2022-2027.
Design-Build
The Benefits of Using a Dedicated Loading Dock Service Provider
Every piece of equipment at a loading dock equipment performs a specific function, without which the loading or unloading operation can’t safely take place.
Clean Energy
How Improving Energy Efficiency in Warehouses Can Strengthen the Supply Chain
While ships float offshore from ports for weeks on end and major manufacturing hubs are still experiencing COVID disruptions, it may be the perfect time for warehouses stateside to reevaluate their sustainability and energy efficiency strategies.
Automation
Aurobindo Pharma Increases Throughput with ASRS as Hub of Integrated Distribution Network
With annual growth routinely surpassing double digits per year, even Aurobindo Pharma's advanced operation required further automation investments to meet current and future demands.
