Modern Materials Handling - June 01, 2009

Features

Special delivery: Automated manufacturing helps Valpak
Each month, a familiar blue envelope stuffed full of money-saving coupons and promotions arrives at more than 45 million U.S. and Canadian households from Valpak, a Cox Target Media Company and North America's leading cooperative direct marketer. Do the math and that works out to more than 500 million envelopes, and more than 20 billion coupons, mailed annually by Valpak.

Manufacturing: Valpak's automated DC delivers
AS/RS: Transform order assembly
Salary Survey: Weathering the economic storm
Safety Tip: Outfitting your DC workers
Goods-to-person picking: Delivering the goods
Real-time locating systems basics