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The Advantages and Disadvantages of an ASRS
Heavy equipment operators are a famously hardheaded lot, given to trusting their skills with the forklift over anything else. I know at least a couple warehouse supervisors and logistics coordinators who have heard an almighty crash and emerged from their offices to find products all over the warehouse floor and a sheepish forklift operator trying…
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The Warehouse of the Future: Planning for Intelligent Transformation
Twenty years ago, a warehouse worker would wake up, fill a thermos with coffee, and hop into his car to drive to work. He might run into traffic on the way there and flip through radio stations looking for a good song. When he arrived at the warehouse, he would get the day’s paperwork from…
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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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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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How to Make the Most of Supply Chain Automation
If you’ve ever walked into a grocery store–or any sort of store–then you’ve probably seen a stocker scanning individual items before placing them back on the shelf. He or she is checking the stock keeping unit (SKU) to help keep track of what the store has on the shelf, what is still in inventory, and…
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Improving Cube Utilization in the Warehouse
A vital part of meeting the growing demands of consumers is getting more of your goods to market. Producing those extra goods is often a relatively simple matter of assigning extra shifts to production or working more fields. In the supply chain, though, those extra goods pose more difficulties. Attempting to fit more product into…
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What Are the Benefits of Warehouse Automation?
You could say these are the best of times to be in business and the worst of times. On the positive side, after almost a decade of little or no growth, businesses are finally expanding again as inventory moves out and orders bring production lines back to life. On the other hand, transportation and labor…
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Why Pallets for Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems Should Be Plastic
The pace of business in the grocery and pharma industries is relentless. Meeting the standards of consumers and regulators means constantly refining processes to increase efficiency. But sometimes maintaining the required productivity and accuracy is beyond the capabilities of mere mortals, particularly in the warehouse. For this reason, many companies are choosing Automated Storage and…