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To Automate or Not to Automate?
Automating warehouse and order fulfillment operations has become the primary strategy to ensure the realization of supply chain productivity and fiscal goals while maximizing customer service levels.

Other Voices: The limits of Amazon Business is where opportunity exists
The threat of disruption could also present new opportunities for those who embrace the challenge.

The future of retail distribution
Distributed order management, autonomous robots, blockchain and warehousing software are all working together to help retailers more effectively manage their end-to-end supply chains.

Optricity, Bastian Solutions partner to provide advanced warehouse optimization services
Partnership combines Optricity's slotting algorithms and patented processes with Bastian Solutions’ expertise in facility layout and design.

Vanderlande invests in collaborative robot specialist Smart Robotics
Cobot solutions used in order picking and placing, palletizing and depalletizing, and kitting and bagging alongside human operators.

Warehouse & distribution center site selection: Seeking a skilled workforce
While warehouse and distribution centers (DCs) have historically been located where land is cheap and transportation networks are excellent, today’s criteria needs to include a skilled workforce ready to manage an increasingly digital operation.

Plug Power announces expanded collaboration with Walmart
Walmart to expand use of hydrogen fuel cells in its distribution center material handling fleet by $80 million.

Thrive Market’s Startup Distribution Network
How does a fastgrowing, e-commerce startup company build out order fulfillment capabilities? Thrive Market answered that question with its new facility in Indiana.

Thrive Market: Keeping up with growth
Thrive Market’s new Indiana DC was designed to meet the needs of a fast-growing e-commerce startup today and tomorrow.

Voxware research indicates returns processes remain flawed
Third biennial report shows 25% increase in consumers receiving an incorrect item for a second time after returning an incorrect order.

Fortna opens office in Toronto, Canada
First Canadian location follows the opening of offices in both London and Santiago earlier in 2016.

5 Emerging Technologies Enabling Competitive Advantage for Distribution
Come hear about the latest in each-picking robotics, co-bots, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, sensors, drones and droids that are enabling competitive advantage for distribution.

Fortna celebrates 70 years
Company began in 1946 as a hand truck and parts business in a one-room office.

CBRE report cites 25 straight quarters of declines for industrial real estate availability
According to CBRE data, industrial availability fell to 8.8. percent in the first quarter, which marked a decrease of 20 basis points from the first quarter’s 9.0 for its lowest reading going back to the second quarter of 2001.

FastFetch North America changes name to NextGen DC Systems
Name change accompanies broader range of integrated solutions.


May 2024 Modern Materials Handling

A complete modernization of the sortation and conveyance at Boscov’s DC, along with updated software and a new order processing area, have transformed the ability of the department store chain’s DC to move more cartons in less time, while permitting more frequent replenishment shipment for stores.

Latest Resources

Automate & Accelerate: Replacing Pick-to-Light with the Next Generation of Automation
Berkshire Grey and S&H Systems present a webinar showcasing how their Robotic Put Wall systems offer a cost-effective solution to aging pick-to-light systems
6 Ways to Re-evalute Fulfillment This Year
Materials Handling Robotics: The new world of heterogeneous robotic integration
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Latest Resources

2023 Automation Study: Usage & Implementation of Warehouse/DC Automation Solutions
2023 Automation Study: Usage & Implementation of Warehouse/DC Automation Solutions
This research was conducted by Peerless Research Group on behalf of Modern Materials Handling to assess usage and purchase intentions forautomation systems...
How Your Storage Practices Can Affect Your Pest Control Program
How Your Storage Practices Can Affect Your Pest Control Program
Discover how your storage practices could be affecting your pest control program and how to prevent pest infestations in your business. Join...

Warehousing Outlook 2023
Warehousing Outlook 2023
2023 is here, and so are new warehousing trends.
Extend the Life of Brownfield Warehouses
Extend the Life of Brownfield Warehouses
Today’s robotic and data-driven automation systems can minimize disruptions and improve the life and productivity of warehouse operations.
Power Supply in Overhead Cranes: Energy Chains vs. Festoons
Power Supply in Overhead Cranes: Energy Chains vs. Festoons
Download this white paper to learn more about how both systems compare.