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5 Challenges for Warehouse Management and Fulfillment in 2023
The most important focus areas are improving customer satisfaction levels (34%), investing in automation technology (31%), sustainable solutions (31%), greater workforce efficiency (31%) and delivering goods-to-person fasters (30%).
Material Handling Equipment
Order Picker Supports Forks Forward, Forks Trailing Operator Stances
Material Handling Equipment
Barcoding Acquires FRED Automation
Emerging Technologies
Frictionless Data Capture for High-Volume Scanning Workloads
Worker Safety
3 Technology Innovations Driving Warehouse Safety in 2023 and Beyond
Sourcing & Procurement
2022 Supply Chain Content Rewind
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Software & Technology
Top Tech Startup Award: AI-Powered Automation Takes Over
From AI and robotics to fulfillment execution and real-time visibility, many of today's tech startups are poised to disrupt the supply chain space in a big way.
Mentorship Programs
Supply Chain Network to Moderate Discussion on Humanitarian Logistics at Manifest
This panel will talk about the state of procurement, how to support humanitarian logistical needs and more.
Automation
Warehouse Automation: What to Expect in 2023
Industry experts expect to see an increase in adoption over the next 5 years, driven by several trends, including an ongoing labor shortage, a more integrated warehouse and the introduction of better and more affordable solutions.
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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.
Automation
Important Considerations When Approaching Warehouse AS/RS Investments
The key to meeting demand, sustaining growth and future-proofing warehouse and distribution center operations lies in fully embracing automation, which frequently involves implementing automatic storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS).
Automation
Warehouse Automation: To Adapt or Adopt? That is the Question.
For operations that already have automated systems in place and are planning to scale or optimize their processes, there’s a key question: Adapt your current systems or adopt new technologies?
Material Handling Equipment
AS/RS: The Era of Shuttles is Here
To fully optimize space and efficiently process order throughput, retailers are increasingly adopting automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS).
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.
Warehousing
Advancements in Voice Picking Maximize the Value of Wearables
Now and well into the future, warehouses need to invest in the right blend of automation to operate with fewer people.
Micro-Fulfillment
The Key to Reimagining E-Commerce Micro-Fulfillment
The latest generation of vertical lift and horizontal carousel systems present extremely optimized solutions for high-density, low-footprint, highly scalable and cost-efficient micro-fulfillment automation for retailers and e-commerce fulfillment.
Emerging Technologies
4 Ways UHF RFID Can Accelerate Supply Chains and Logistics
This technology can greatly reduce the time, energy and manpower required to optimize supply chain, logistics and asset management tasks, while accelerating acquisition, accountability and distribution of parts or finished goods.
Material Handling Equipment
Ports to Production Facilities: How Hydrogen Fuel Cells Cut Emissions
Hydrogen is being deployed in an increasingly wide swath of material handling applications, from fueling lift trucks in manufacturing facilities, to powering heavier-duty lift trucks and even container handling equipment at ports.
Retail
Compact Shipping Label Printer with Built-In Scale
This all-in-one Wi-Fi-enabled thermal shipping label printer with integrated scale enables users to process orders from retailers, weigh packages, compare shipping rates, print shipping labels and track packages all from one compact device.
Material Handling Equipment
Hy-Tek Rebrands as Hy-Tek Intralogistics
Hy-Tek Material Handling reintroduces itself with a new brand identity, positioning and brand promise as Hy-Tek Intralogistics.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Warehousing
Where's My Item: Why Inventory Control Matters
Not only does searching for inventory interrupt your efficient warehouse and supply chain operations, but missing items can cause stock-outs that result in lost revenue and lost customers.
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
Supply chains have seen unprecedented volatility over the past few years, with the impact of Brexit, COVID-19 and now the war in Ukraine leading to delays and shortages with no easy solutions.
Clean Energy
As California Plans To Ban Propane and Diesel Forklifts, Expect a Faster Shift to Electric
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is planning to ban sales of all new forklifts that aren’t zero-emission by 2026. Its recent proposal to phase out non-zero-emission forklifts is still in development, and the legislation is not yet in effect.
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.
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.
Sustainability
Can Propane Really Help Reduce Carbon Emissions?
There are so many options when it comes to creating a sustainable supply chain today. How does propane come into play? Learn more about the ins and outs of carbon emissions and propane from the Propane Education and Research Council.
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.
