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60 Seconds with Jerry Pimental - Paladin Supply Chain Solutions
CEO of Paladin Supply Chain Solutions, Jerry has more than 39 years of experience in distribution, logistics and supply chain management. His duties include Consulting in DC optimization, automation and technology and supply chain strategy, development and implementation.

This Month in Modern: Join the “packaging revolution”... or get ready to pay
A wise supply chain consultant told me more than five years ago that “packaging was the final frontier of supply chain optimization.”

60 Seconds with Peter Bolstorff: Executive Vice President, Corporate Development at APICS
Peter has 25 years in the supply chain industry including corporate stints with 3M and Imation, a lifetime volunteer with the Supply Chain Council, successful entrepreneur; author of “Supply Chain Excellence;” and two years in an executive role with APICS. Duties include overseeing APICS' for Business platform that includes supply chain talent development and corporate supply chain performance improvement products and services

New doors open paths to productivity
Reliable high-speed doors ensure access to massive inventory for food distributor.

Workflow management system delivers data in real time
Mobile pickup and delivery solution improves visibility and agility for carrier’s next-day deliveries.

Hybrid fulfillment solution handles long tail of SKUs
Beverage distributor’s new facility takes unique approach to the challenge of SKU proliferation.

Online retailer tackles billable weight changes
A new system to capture item dimensions nets optimized shipments

Pentagon gift to our industry: A pipeline of MSSC-certified vets
Armed forces are combating the skills gap for the front-line materials handling and distribution workforce.

Lift Truck Tips: Linking equipment, operators and business objectives
Thorough application analysis can fasten productivity and efficiency to lift trucks and their attachments.

Packaging Corner: Palletize without barriers
Collaborative robotics is on the horizon for palletizing, but we’re not there just yet.

Modex 2016: Discovery begins here
Welcome to Modern’s “Modex Show Issue,” by far the most comprehensive, pre-show listings available of the latest, most cutting edge equipment, systems and solutions that will be presented in Atlanta (April 4-7) by more than 800 exhibitors.

Education Insights: The talent supply chain
By viewing talent as a supply chain in itself, the industry can more easily find and retain workers, advance careers and lower the costs of education.

MRO Strategies: Swamps, alligators and MRO
MRO goes beyond the maintenance or repair process and involves sourcing and procurement strategies to optimize money spent on operational tools, supplies and services.

Technician Spotlight: Rick Handberg, Westfalia
MHMRO spends 60 seconds talking to a senior field service technician about the state of the industry.

Lift Truck Tips: Portals to a high-performing fleet
Fleet management can improve almost any fleet, but success depends on carefully collecting and delivering the most valuable data.

Packaging Corner: Eliminate wood crates from your packing program
Engineered paperboard can be an alternative to wood crates for protecting large, irregular-shaped products.

Lift Truck Tips: For those about to lift
AC motors aim to eliminate the shortcomings of their DC predecessors and keep lift trucks performing deeds dirt cheap.

This Month in Modern: Big automation, small space
This month in Modern, we share a prime example of one of those “savvy, smaller operations” that’s packing a lot of automation into a compact space.

Packaging Corner: Maximizing interoperability in e-commerce
Technology and software are becoming more significant to e-commerce packaging operations.

Packaging Corner: Molded pulp packaging use expands
Alternative material packaging offers sustainable protection for products shipped in any channel.


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