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Retail
3 Ways Inefficiency Delays CPGs and Retailers
Retailers and CPGs need to resolve elements across their supply chains that are silent killers of optimal performance. Here are 3 ways inefficiency may be hindering your process.
Manufacturing
6 Strategic Priorities for the Manufacturing Industry in 2023
Transportation
Transportation Insights from SMC3 JumpStart Conference
Material Handling Equipment
Order Picker Supports Forks Forward, Forks Trailing Operator Stances
Emerging Technologies
Frictionless Data Capture for High-Volume Scanning Workloads
Supply Chain Visibility
3 Reasons Track-and-Trace Technology Will Improve Supply Chain Sustainability
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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.
Sponsored
Professionalize Your Indirect Supply Chain Management
Wesco’s indirect purchasing and inventory management programs help optimize your MRO tail spend while decreasing your supply chain related costs.
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Financial Management Software
Faster Vendor Payment is a Top Finance Strategy
Companies are looking for ways to strengthen vendor relationships, become preferred customers and gain consistent access to the goods and supplies they need.
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.
E-Commerce Solutions
The Case for Sustainable E-Commerce Packaging
In the ecommerce industry, there are several ways to upgrade processes to be more eco-friendly. A recommended first step is for companies to evaluate their packaging processes in order to transform their sustainability strategies.
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?
Packaging
Online Consumers Frustrated with Excessive Packaging
Factors such as too big for the products being shipped, using too much filler or using too much plastic tape are reasons why online shoppers are frustrated with e-commerce packaging.
Packaging
The Importance of AI-Powered 3D Packing Solutions in Today’s Warehouses
Here’s how 3D bin packing software can optimize warehousing processes by combining it with warehouse management systems and API.
Retail
Four Ways to Grow Your Brand During Peak Season
Modernizing strategies, diversifying carriers and sales channels and considering customer demand will empower brands to make the most of peak season.
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
How Retailers Can Drive Sales into 2023
Strategically managing inventory, paying special attention to delivery timing performance and utilizing reverse logistics are critical during the final weeks of holiday shopping.
Packaging
Protecting Against Climate Risks During Peak Season
As the weather becomes more unpredictable and disasters become more frequent as the result of climate change, such events are likely to have a greater impact on the supply chain.
Waste Reduction
Unpacking Sustainable Waste Management for Warehouses and Distribution Facilities
Reducing, re-using and recycling warehouse waste is good for the environment, the brand image and the bottom line.
Packaging
4 Ways to Advance Sustainability in Packaging and Labeling
Sustainable packaging is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Packaging decision-makers must consider a bevy of options to temper organizational carbon emissions and promote supply chain efficacies for a more sustainable future.
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.
Micro-Fulfillment
Re-Commerce Network Provides Complete Plug-and-Play Infrastructure for Retailers
The processing centers are fully equipped to consolidate returns, receive returned or trade-in items directly from consumers, as well as bulk transfers from warehouses or other collection points.
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.
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.
Warehousing
Warehouses Want to Know: How Can We Find More Workers?
EWA can help attract and retain difficult-to-find warehouse employees to fill open positions and in doing so, they’re in a much better place to operate at full capacity and get their products more efficiently in and out the door.
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.
Sponsored
Professionalize Your Indirect Supply Chain Management
Wesco’s indirect purchasing and inventory management programs help optimize your MRO tail spend while decreasing your supply chain related costs.
Last-Mile
Innovating Returns in the Last-Mile
Last-mile operators: if you can facilitate seamless returns for your retailer clients, those brands will reap the benefits, deepening your relationship and letting you earn your place as a true partner.
Expert Columnists
How Standardizing the Supply Chain Could Improve Bottom Lines
The supply chain of the future will be digitally driven with added benefits of automation and technology.
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.
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.
Retail
A Shift in Shipping Preferences for Merchants & Consumers
A July/August survey of 1,000 SMBs and a second survey of 1,000 United States consumers revealed how their holiday and shipping preferences have changed since last year.
Packaging
Analytics Discover Consumers React to Different Product Designs and Packaging Materials
Brands are now faced with the delicate balance of creating lighter packaging to help reduce shipping costs as well as utilizing sustainable materials - all while also creating packaging that will appeal to their desired consumer audience.
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.
Packaging
Appropriate Documentation and Labeling: The Golden Ticket to Global Trade Efficiency
The global supply chain has never been easy to navigate. Unfortunately, the complexities continue to loom thanks to difficulties experienced around the world over the last 18 months.
Packaging
Can Transit Packaging Rental Help Supply Chains Control Costs?
There’s no doubt about it – the bottom line is a top priority. From manufacturing through to retail, with change and uncertainty affecting business performance, there is an increased emphasis on skillful logistics and supply chain analysis.
Packaging
Create a Sustainable Warehouse with Reusable Packaging
As companies look to reduce CO2 emissions, landfill waste, water usage and more, here’s how they can evolve their supply chain practices to create more sustainable warehouses.
Packaging
How To Pick the Right Co-Packing Partner
Co-packing is a critical, largely invisible, part of the process that transforms their bulk cargo into their retail-shelf-ready products.
