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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.
Software & Technology
Improving Supply Chain Relations With Lean Manufacturing
Clean Energy
As California Plans To Ban Propane and Diesel Forklifts, Expect a Faster Shift to Electric
Design-Build
The Benefits of Using a Dedicated Loading Dock Service Provider
Material Handling Equipment
Automated Shuttle System to Optimize Micro-Fulfillment Services
Sustainability
Can Propane Really Help Reduce Carbon Emissions?
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Sourcing & Procurement
An Inside Look at Procurement Trends with Amazon Business
Supply and Demand Chain Executive interviews Todd Heimes, global director of Amazon Business worldwide, to learn about procurement technology today and the e-commerce giant’s strategy in digital sourcing.
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SCN Summit: Future of Supply Chains
December 5, 2022
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7 Ways to Use Data In Your Supply Chain to Improve Operational Intelligence
With the right asset management and inventory tracking tools, you can embrace a holistic approach to data, and fully integrate your enterprise system of systems.
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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.
Robotics
Industrial Cobot Transforms Packaging, Palletizing Process
The UR20 cobot features an entirely new joint design that will allow for even faster cycle times as well as the ability to handle heavier loads.
Material Handling Equipment
Geek+, Reesink Logistic Solutions Partnership Expands AMR Presence in Northern Europe
The partnership will help both companies provide automated mobile robots to Northern Europe, with a focus on the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland.
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.
Material Handling Equipment
Modern Loading Dock Equipment Enhances Safety And Productivity
Loading docks are one of the most important links in any supply chain – and often, one of the most dangerous.
Warehousing
5 Small Innovations That Had a Big Impact on the Supply Chain
When you think about how a product that you order at your computer or via your phone gets delivered to you within days or even hours, you can thank many of the innovations that were developed over the past 100+ years for the supply chain.
Material Handling Equipment
Warehouse Automation Market to Reach $41B in Next 5 Years
Mega-trends like aging population, globalization, health and safety, mobility, green logistics, autonomous world, urbanization, individualization and digitization need to be given more consideration and weight than in the past.
Training/Onboarding
Forklift Learning Studio Elevates Immersive Engineering Education
The studio is designed to unify multiple courses and link students across classes and skill levels as they engage in work with real-world applications.
Warehousing
Warehouse Automation Investment Is Now Essential
Three meaningful warehousing sector trends are driving investments in new technologies: The ongoing labor crunch; a renewed mandate for more operational flexibility; and global initiatives for digital transformation.
Warehousing
MODEX In Person Was Return to Normalcy We Needed
I couldn’t help but revel in the fact that there were no mandatory masks, no pre-screening tests, no questionnaires to fill out. It’s almost as though it started where MODEX 2020 left off.
MODEX
Mobile Robots with Navigation Technology
The three new mobile robots utilize natural feature navigation technology and require little to no added infrastructure.
MODEX
User-Directed Pallet Mover Drives Autonomously
BUD can transport and drop off loads of up to 3,300 pounds with basic obstacle avoidance and a swappable lithium battery to deliver exceptional operational flexibility.
MODEX
Multi-Level Storage and Retrieval System Boosts Storage Density
The Sky-Storage & Ground-Pick is a multi-level storage and retrieval system that uses Geek+’s X-series four-way shuttle robots to boost storage density while devoting the ground floor to picking operations entrusted to the flagship P800 robots.
Robotics
Goods-to-Person Warehouse Automation Technology
Wireless Infinity iBOT robotic vehicles access all inventory and port stations, moving freely underneath and throughout the system with no wasted mechanical motion.
MODEX
Co-Bot Pallet Jack Augments Throughput
Vecna Robotics also collaborated with Quanergy Systems on the lidar technology used by the CPJ to enable mass-market adoption and democratize access to automation.
Micro-Fulfillment
Enhancing Automated Sortation Process
tSort3D allows 6-8 times the sort destinations in the same space as other traditional automated sortation solutions, provides for thousands of sort destinations, volumes up to 20,000 an hour and facilitates a single, very large batch pick.
Material Handling Equipment
Bin Lift Extends Reachability in Warehouses
AutoStore bins are durable containers used to hold inventory and are handled precisely by AutoStore robots.
Robotics
Will Robots Hurt or Help Your Warehouse?
There are five questions you should be asking to decide whether robots will help or hurt your warehouse.
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7 Ways to Use Data In Your Supply Chain to Improve Operational Intelligence
With the right asset management and inventory tracking tools, you can embrace a holistic approach to data, and fully integrate your enterprise system of systems.
Robotics
How Robot Operations Will Fix the Broken Supply Chain
In a world undergoing massive transitions, severe health scenarios, climate-related challenges and volatile markets, the golden era of smart automation is just beginning.
Carbon Footprint
Propane vs. Electric: How Do These Energy Sources Compare?
It’s important to see how these energy choices compare in terms of common purchasing priorities like emissions, cost, reliability and performance.
Material Handling Equipment
Toyota Debuts 22 New Electric Forklifts
These warehousing solutions come as a response to the growing demand for durable, reliable, energy efficient products with greater versatility and seamless operation across all applications and environments.
Supply Chain Visibility
Link Labs Advances Asset Tracking with Rechargeable Batteries
In an effort to drive visibility in the supply chain forward, Link Labs introduces rechargeable capabilities to its asset tracking after noticing a need in the industry.
Material Handling Equipment
Reducing Vehicle Downtime with Lithium-Ion
Choosing the right battery affects efficiency, maintenance, costs and crucially the length of time that vehicles can operate at full functionality on any given workday.
Retention
Getting the Most Out of Warehouse Labor
Actively incorporating operator input will help warehouses determine the best-fit set of tools and frameworks to maximize labor productivity and retention, while controlling costs.
Material Handling Equipment
Electric Pneumatic Forklifts for Both Indoor and Outdoor Applications
The all new Toyota 48V and 80V Electric Pneumatic Forklifts are powered by Toyota-designed AC motors and built to elevate operational efficiency and productivity.
Warehousing
Fears for Complicated Holiday Sales Prompts New Warehouses
Stord opens new warehouse location in Las Vegas, hoping to get ahead of what experts are saying will be the busiest holiday season.
Automation
Solutions Company Leans into Warehouse IoT Through Innovation Hub
As IoT becomes more prevalent in warehousing due to e-commerce growth, Smart Warehousing launches an innovation hub for idea cultivation.
Warehousing
New Robotics Arm Takes Warehouses to New Heights
Geek+ introduces a new robot that can reach up to 26 feet high. The new AMR launches at time when warehouses look to maximize space more than ever.
Automation
Warehouse Automation Market to Reach $69B by 2025
Fixed automation such as AS/RS, conveyors and conveyor-based sorters will remain the most common form of automation for the foreseeable future.
