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The Supply Chain in 2024 — What We Can Expect

Supply chains have continued to recover after the turbulence and shutdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic (as well as the ongoing US-China trade war and the Russian siege on Ukraine). Manufacturers and retailers must focus on building resilience in 2024 as they manage a vulnerable but slowly improving supply chain. Here are some risks that still exist in the supply chain and what we can expect as we head into 2024 and beyond.

Topics: Warehouse Management Supply Chain Automation RFID

Mastering Effective Inventory Management in 2024

The product that’s stored in your warehouses and fulfillment centers is essential to keeping your business thriving—but this only makes smart financial sense if you have what you need and not much more. Otherwise, your product will go to waste, and you will spend too much on warehousing space.

Topics: Warehouse Management Order Fulfillment Sustainability

What We Can Learn from Fulfillment and eCommerce in 2023 — A Retrospective

Customer expectations shifted drastically in 2023—but so did the way that many distribution and fulfillment centers worked to meet these expectations. Sustainability, speed, and customization are more important than ever. Here’s a look at what we can learn from fulfillment and eCommerce over the past year and how businesses are shifting their focus to adapt to new customer expectations.

Topics: Warehouse Management ECommerce Automation Order Fulfillment

Top 10 Tips for a Safe Warehouse

Working in a warehouse environment poses unique safety challenges. With heavy machinery, tall racks, dangerous tools, and hazardous materials, warehouses need safety-focused policies and procedures to protect workers. While the definition of “safety” took on a much broader meaning at the start of the pandemic and led to many precautions that are no longer as critical as they were, it did help jump-start conversations on the broader role and need for a more structured and deliberate approach to safety enforcement.

6 Predictions for Fulfillment in 2024 (and Beyond)

Warehousing, distribution, and order fulfillment must continue to evolve to meet various challenges and changing consumer demands. Faced with expanding omnichannel options and the ability to leverage technology to address different inefficiencies, businesses in these industries have many opportunities for unprecedented gains. Here are some of the challenges still facing the warehousing industry and some top predictions for order fulfillment in 2024 and beyond.

Topics: Warehouse Management Automation Order Fulfillment

Promoting Warehouse Safety in Extreme Weather Conditions

From sweltering summer temperatures and frigid winters to powerful storms, flooding, and even wildfires, there are certain precautions (like having an emergency action plan) that can help keep everyone safe during a storm. Because of factors like scaffolding, large, open indoor spaces, electrical equipment, and heavy machinery, proper protocols during severe weather may be a matter of life and death.

Topics: Warehouse Management Automation warehouse safety

Revolutionizing Medical Care With Mobile Workstations

From enabling charting at the point of care to extending the battery life of computers and other devices, mobile workstations are helping busy healthcare professionals manage full workloads, spend more time with patients, support a cleaner, more sterile environment to limit the spread of infection, and even provide better care to their patients. Here’s how these workstations are making an impact in the medical field.

Topics: Mobile Workstation Portable Power Healthcare

Is Your Warehouse or Distribution Center Prepped for Winter?

 

In the last several months of the year, your warehouse or distribution center is probably concerned about being ready for peak season. After all, holiday shopping begins ramping up in the fall and activity doesn’t slow down until well after the new year. But another concern for your business, depending on its location, should be the winter weather.

Topics: Distribution Center Warehouse Management warehouse safety

The Consumer Demand for Transparency in Food — How Technology Can Help

Farm-to-table is a popular concept for restaurants. But it doesn’t carry across to every type of food and beverage we consume. There’s a larger movement in the industry underway.

Topics: Supply Chain RFID Sustainability

Case Study: Solving for Mislabeling

When the leadership of McCollister Global Services – a New Jersey-based national provider of transportation services known in the industry as “an employer of choice” - looked for help with process improvement and equipment upgrades, they got more than they asked for while working with Integrated Productivity Systems (IPSi) in nearby Lansdale, PA.

Topics: Case Studies Inventory Control mislabeling