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Panasonic Connect Highlights New Automated Manufacturing Solution
Panasonic Connect North America introduces new NPM-GH Pick-and-Place machine. The robotic surface-mount technology is the latest addition to Panasonic Connect’s autonomous factory lineup.
Manufacturing
380 Modular Vision Tunnel Expands the Capabilities of Logistics Operations
Retail
77% of Consumers Will Abandon Retailers After a Failed Big and Bulky Delivery
AI/AR
How Generative AI Will Impact Warehouse Automation
Packaging
Fully Recyclable, Reusable Packaging for Retail Ecosystems
Retail
Warehouse Efficiency: Is Cost Per Pick Impacting Your Bottom Line?
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Automation
The Resurgence of RFID: Alexis Asks
As technology continues to evolve, RFID is poised to develop into a synonymous player in the game of inventory management.
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Nominations Close June 7 for 2024 Women in Supply Chain Award
This award recognizes female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network. Submissions close June 7!
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Packaging
How AI Keeps Reusable Packaging on Track
This technology makes it possible to manage complex container and reusable packaging networks with a high level of planning and service quality. Here's how.
Automation
Optimizing Warehouses: A Blend of Art, Science and Humans
Having the right blend of human integrated automation systems is ultimately the quest for improving customer satisfaction and maintaining a competitive edge.
Packaging
Hazmat Solution Provider Expands Packaging Portfolio
Labelmaster announces expansion in its packaging business by offering a robust assortment of CurTec high-performance plastic containers, drums and pails.
Automation
How Automation and Robotics Contributes to Warehouse Workplace Safety
Here's how automation and robotics in shipping and logistics have enhanced everything from workplace safety to employee experience.
Automation
Moving Post-Holiday Returns with Warehouse Optimization
A resilient, comprehensive optimization strategy will keep warehouses running smoothly and help to achieve a healthier bottom line—both during the post-holiday months and all year long.
Automation
The Impact of Human Effort and Automation on Warehousing
While the role of warehouse workers remains irreplaceable, the support of advanced automation and technology is indispensable.
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Transfer Loads From One Pallet Type to Another
Columbia's Load Transfer Stations (LTS) optimize your facility's lift truck productivity, reduce labor and shipping costs and help reduce contamination from entering production areas.
Sourcing Solutions
Managing Retail Returns Requires a Balanced Approach
By understanding why returns are happening and taking responsibility for volumes, retailers can put in place corrective actions that address the impact returns have on retail’s traditional linear, go-to-market-oriented supply chain.
Packaging
Printable 5G Cellular Shipping Label to Track Shipments Worldwide
Reelables launched its new 5G Smart Labels, what is said to be the only printable 5G label solution in the world for logistics providers, cargo forwarders, and retailers to track shipments at the piece level as they move through the supply chain.
Packaging
Right-sized Packaging Makes Unboxing and the Planet Better
As e-commerce continues to grow, right-sized packaging is becoming essential to meet consumer expectations, reduce costs and uphold sustainability commitments.
Robotics
Robotic Solution to Address the Demands of Large-Scale E-Commerce Operations
By deploying the R5 Pro at a large AutoStore site, customers can reduce the number of Robots required on the same grid by up to 15%, when compared to using the R5 Robot, enabling better routing and enhanced system efficiency.
Automation
How to Build Resilience Into Retail Operations with Effective Inventory Management
By utilizing suppliers as a fulfillment option, businesses can maintain a smaller footprint and achieve greater operational efficiencies.
Professional Development
Women in Supply Chain: What They're Doing Matters to the Future of Supply Chains
This year's award took in over 400 submissions, the highest amount of applications for this award. This is because what these winners are doing matters to the future of supply chains.
Retail
Why Inventory Excellence Requires Integrated Performance Management
By taking a rigorous approach to inventory performance management, supply chain leaders create transparency that enables informed conversations with stakeholders.
Automation
A Quiet Revolution: The Future of Warehouse Automation
Recent supply chain disruptions may have highlighted the critical role of automation in building resilient supply chains, but now it's time to build on the foundation and solidify practices that foster growth in a new age of warehousing.
Worker Safety
Ensuring Warehouse Safety: Why Hi-Viz Apparel Matters
Hi-viz apparel can help mitigate many of these risks and increase warehousing safety. Here's how.
Packaging
Smart Label Tracking Device for Small, Lightweight Items
The Smart Label allows tracking of small and lightweight items, which has not previously been possible using traditional tracking devices.
Automation
Why Supply Chains Need Symbiotic Relationship Between Technology and Warehouse Workers
Based on learnings from deploying supply chain technology at scale, the industry should ensure that in-warehouse technology supports its labor force in four key areas - training, job performance, safety, and advancement.
Packaging
RFID in the Warehouse: Driving Fulfilment Efficiency
With RFID technology deployed, retailers can optimize their entire supply chain operations and drive increased fulfillment efficiency, benefiting all stakeholders involved.
Retail
How Brands Can Overcome the Slow of Retail Spending
Here’s what brands and retailers can do to lower their risk and increase their opportunities in the midst of a lull in retail spending.
Waste Reduction
How to Eliminate Waste in Label Printing with Lean Labeling
By following the lean labeling process, companies can trim their barcode labeling process down to use only the time, materials and energy that are truly required.
Design-Build
Trends in Sustainable Warehousing to Cut Carbon Footprint
Understanding that evaluating best practices and then investing in processes that cut carbon footprint makes good sense for today, and for the future.
AI/AR
Simplifying with Data-Driven Warehouse Optimization
The right software optimizes hands-on work and streamlines manual processes, thus making the work easier, faster and more accurate for workers. For managers, machine learning-based applications provide new insights and recommendations.
Retail
7 Steps to a Sustainable Warehouse
Fully embracing these trends requires employee engagement and education in sustainability initiatives. Training programs and awareness campaigns are essential to encourage employees to adopt eco-friendly practices.
Waste Reduction
Alexis Asks: A Circular Economy in the Midst of 'Prime Days'
Managing editor Alexis Mizell-Pleasant asks industry experts about various topics developing in the supply chain. Retailers are turning to seasonal deals, like Amazon's Prime Day, to drive sales— an opportunity for the circular economy to score big.
Micro-Fulfillment
3 Ways Labels Optimize Warehouse Management
As your warehouse operations evolve and expand with every new order, maintaining effective procedures is crucial for achieving optimal performance. And the secret to unlocking this type of optimization lies in labels.
Automation
Creating a More Productive Warehouse Operation
By optimizing warehouse operations, companies can improve their bottom line, increase their competitive advantage and provide better customer service.
Automation
Warehouse Visibility That Drives Actionable Insights
With real-time visibility into inventory levels, fulfillment statuses and consumer buying patterns, brands can optimize their fulfillment to drive better outcomes.
Packaging
How Real-time Visibility into Warehouse Operations Helps the Bottom Line
Whether in the context of physically optimizing the labelling and storage of items to simplify put-away and picking workflows or digitally automating inventory and returns management to catalyze data-driven decision-making.
Retail
How RFID is Transforming Retailer Perspectives
With the use of RFID, supply chain risks can be drastically reduced, making retailers not only more efficient, but sustainable and in line with consumer expectations now and in the future.