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AGVs in the Warehouse: What to Know About Implementing Autonomous Guided Vehicles
ARTICLE UPDATED FEBRUARY 29, 2024 If you are involved in the field of logistics, you may be facing challenges in recruiting and maintaining a full workforce, which may be leading to difficulties in meeting productivity targets and ensuring compliance with your shipped goods. Recent trends in the supply chain, such as workforce shortages and increased…
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Good Warehouse Practices in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Losses associated with temperature lapses in the pharmaceutical supply chain are estimated at $320 billion globally, a number larger than the combined market valuation of Visa, Intel, and Walmart. Plainly, reliable supply chains are critically important for the profitability of the pharmaceutical industry and for the safety of consumers. While the medical professionals who administer…
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Supply Chain Trends for 2018: The Future of Logistics
It’s been a good year for business. In April 2018, the unemployment rate dipped below the four percent mark for the first time in over a decade, and those employees have started to spend their wages. The supply chain has sprung to life to provide consumers with the products they demand. It’s a heartening sign…
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Using Lean Supply Chain Management to Eliminate Waste
It wasn’t very long ago that warehouses in every industry stored not only what was ordered, but also a generous surplus of products in order to meet unexpected demand. It was a method that complicated purchasing and forced warehouses to work around lots of unsold goods, leading to waste when out-of-date groceries and pharmaceuticals had…
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GMA Pallet Grades: How and Why Are Pallets Graded?
ARTICLE UPDATED ON JUNE 28, 2023 CBA Pallet Grades: How and Why Are Pallets Graded? In the early 1920’s, shortly after the modern forklift was developed, the first pallets also emerged — transforming the way products were stored at that time. Years later, during World War II, pallets evolved even further. The wood pallet —…
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Maximizing Warehouse Space to Make the Most of Your Building
A warehouse only operates at peak efficiency when the warehouse manager is able to play live-action Tetris in three dimensions in order to find space for inventory. This difficult job isn’t made easier by the warehouse manager’s distance from the company’s decision makers. Many at the executive level pay little attention to logistics systems. A…
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How to Stack Empty Pallets Safely
When a pallet is emptied at your warehouse or distribution center, chances are good it’ll be used again. This means that pallets start to accumulate around the loading docks until enough pile up to make it worthwhile to ship them back up the supply chain. After all, a handful of pallets hardly justifies the fuel…
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Warehouse Inventory Management Techniques That Trim Costs
Logistics coordinators are the great unsung heroes of the modern world. Without their work constantly managing the supply chain to ensure that products are delivered on time, we’d go without the necessities of daily life like fresh food, medicine, toiletries, and a million other things that keep us in good health. We quite literally owe…