In this Issue:
- GEODIS maximizes flexibility, minimizes touches
- Show Preview: Modex 2024 show planner
- Information Management: Tightening up on inventories
- Equipment Report: Dock safety
- Best Practices: Data capture
Modern Materials Handling Magazine Archives
January 2024 Modern Materials Handling
The 3PL’s new facility in Asheville, Ohio, is a showcase for next-generation technologies, including robotics and automated packaging.
Conference to feature more than 1,100 exhibitors, 165 sessions and keynotes from Nick Saban, AI expert Gerd Leonhard and UPS’s Bill Seward.
The “just-in-case” era is over, with operations looking to right-size inventory levels while avoiding stock outs. That may call for layers of technology, starting but not ending with WMS and effective data capture.
Vehicle restraints help prevent the most common dock accident—early truck pull away.
Bar coding remains the central technology for data capture, with new wearables and handheld form factors to boost productivity. But RFID momentum is building, and a range of real-time location technologies can complement handheld data collection.
Cloud-based software with metrics gleaned from connected chargers can reveal ways to optimize fleets and plan for the future.
Modern's editor sat down with Diego Vega, Associate professor, supply chain management and social responsibility at Hanken School of Economics to discuss humanitarianism and education.
Don't let the positive economic news stop your need for innovation. Plan for the future at Modex 2024 and stay ahead of the game.
At least part of future success here sits in the cloud.
Collaborative robot enables new palletizing automation for Bob’s Red Mill, hitting the whole grain manufacturer’s needs for speed and safety.
Form factors continue to evolve as retailers look for the right mix for meeting consumer expectations from the DC to the store.
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