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Fleet management switches gears
As the industry successfully harnesses the wealth of available fleet data, opportunities for improvement extend throughout the business.

2014 Warehouse/DC Operations Survey: Industry gets crafty
According to our annual survey, cost efficiency is still king. However, respondents tell us that the multi-channel fulfillment challenge is pushing them to make more economical moves focused on process improvement and layout changes—steps our analysts say are very encouraging.

New intelligent lighting hardware improves efficiency and productivity
Eight-month utility study validates efficiency benefits of integrated and controllable lighting systems.

Voice-directed system creates improvements in hospital supply chain
New system provides carryover benefits from DC to materials management for hospital staff.

7th Annual Salary Survey: Is everybody happy?
If you’re reading this issue inside your warehouse or distribution center facility take a good look at the people around you. Are they smiling? They should be.

Lift Truck Tips: Batteries take more heat in cold storage
Disciplined battery management in the warehouse can be undermined in the freezer, where shorter runtimes often lead to abuse.

60 seconds with John Hill, St. Onge
Modern spends 60 seconds talking to industry veteran John Hill about winning the Alan Gilligan Award for lifetime achievement in the materials handling industry.

Taking out the touches at BRG Sports
BRG Sports’ new DC was designed from the ground up as an omni-channel, omni-brand distribution and manufacturing facility. Most of all, the materials handling solution optimizes fulfillment and takes touches out of the process.

BRG Sports: Synchronizing omni-channel fulfillment with WCS
BRG Sports’ new facility relies on a warehouse control system and voice-directed picking to synchronize parallel pick and pack activities across pick modules.

Pallet Survey: How pallet trends stack up
Modern’s annual reader survey gives insight on pooling, customer compliance, used wood pallets and other trends, though price still rules as the top driver.

Print-and-apply evolves to meet demands of e-commerce
For many parcel-shipping operations, automating label printing and application is no longer productive enough to keep up with e-commerce growth. Here’s a look at the latest developments in print-and-apply technology.

Packaging Systems: Sizing an opportunity
End-users and solution providers prepare for dimensional pricing models to upend their packaging processes—or realize they have been preparing for it all along.

Top 20 automatic data capture suppliers, 2014
Whether struggling or flourishing, suppliers are working to differentiate their products and services to keep pace with rapid changes across the industry.

Protective packaging solution supports facility consolidation
Throughput doubles in two years as the time to pack each order decreases.

New facility achieves compact footprint with automatic palletizers
Five high-level palletizers integrated with case packer, stretch wrapper and pallet conveyor to storage.

Robotic palletizing system enables track and trace quality control
New system design greatly reduces time spent tracking nonconforming product.

Suite of upgraded storage solutions streamlines parts location
Full storage update includes flexible cabinets that adapt to changing inventory.

Packaging: The final frontier of supply chain optimization?
Once locked neatly into its own silo, the continued momentum of e-commerce has turned the spotlight on packing processes and technologies as an increasingly fickle customer-base—both retail and B2B—has forced the hand of fulfillment operations to pick single-line, single-piece orders and ship smaller, more frequent deliveries.

Pack Expo: Product Preview
Pack Expo International is scheduled to be held Nov. 2-5 at Chicago’s McCormick Place. PMMI, the owner and producer of the show, expects the events to draw a combined 2,000 exhibitors and 50,000 attendees to the more than 1.1 million net square feet of exhibits.

60 seconds with Daniel Stanton, MHI
Modern spends 60 seconds talking to Daniel Stanton at MHI about education and professional development.


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