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New global economic realities are encouraging businesses to pursue more aggressive sustainability strategies. Until recently, sustainability has been linked to environmental goals for many companies and, as a result, has been treated as something like an add-on to corporate strategies. But choosing smart solutions for fulfillment can help businesses address many ongoing strategies and become more sustainable at the same time.

The eCommerce industry is constantly evolving, and this year hasn’t been any different. The global pandemic has accelerated growth in online shopping as more and more consumers are realizing the benefits of buying what they need and want from online sellers.

Today’s businesses face unprecedented challenges. In addition to meeting the rising demands of consumers, the specialized requirements of complex products, and a lingering public health crisis, there are ongoing strains placed on the supply chain. To respond to these challenges, companies are looking for ways to leverage various solutions along the supply chain to drive automation, collect data, reduce costs, and create efficiencies.

Peak season is officially here. And, if your warehouse can manage its inflows and outflows efficiently during the busiest time of year, it should be smooth sailing during those other months. Knowing how to best run your operations when the stakes are highest might be challenging. But it will also improve your overall business results.

If your business sells, handles, or stores products, its success depends largely on the quality of its inventory management system. It’s not a sexy topic. But it sure is important. Unfortunately, when it comes time to spend capital on innovations that will boost business results, automated inventory management systems are often overlooked.

We've been hearing from many of you over the last year about the increased need to become better at Ecommerce Fulfillment and with good cause. Perhaps more significant than the huge jump in Ecommerce sales in 2020 was the huge numbers of businesses that were caught flat-footed having to jump in and learn it from the bottom up for the first time.

One of the most common questions we hear in our industry - and discuss among our own teams – is “how far will automation go and WHEN?” As a manufacturer working to improve productivity for our customers, it is a question that has implications for every part of our business – not just in planning the products we want to develop and market, but those we will need to use in our production process.

Do you know how to improve quality and safety in manufacturing with automation and mobility? In the last article, we talked about quality control. Today we want to share with you how automation and mobility impacts manufacturing.

Despite the fact that ‘Sophia’, a humanoid robot, was granted citizenship by Saudi Arabia and the growing fear and trepidation among retail and warehouse workers in the past decade, the integration of robotics and automation into warehouse processes is hardly the job “Robot Job Stealing Apocalypse” it has been made out to be.