This Month in Modern

This month in Modern, executive editor Bob Trebilcock offers us the first in a series of three articles on distribution center operations around the world, including visits to India, South America and Europe. “Think of it as the National Geographic approach to materials handling,” he says.

This month in Modern, we find a couple early indications that this positive wave will continue, and the buzz at Promat 2019 could be even louder.

Find out what is happening this month in Modern Materials Handling

By all reports, the majority of the U.S. leading economic indicators are pointing to a fairly robust year, as manufacturing is growing; consumer confidence continues to climb; and the National Retail Federation just projected 2018 retail sales to head up 3.8% to 4.4%, adding that e-commerce sales are projected to jump up 10% to 12% during the next 12 months.

Find out the latest news on innovation in the Materials Handling industry for the month of October 2017.

In effort to beat the drum and continue to push the “packaging revolution” forward, Modern offers our 5th-annual Packaging Issue—a field guide you can slip in your bag if you’re attending PMMI’s Pack Expo Las Vegas (Sept. 25-27).

As executive editor Bob Trebilcock deftly points out in this month’s cover story, nearly every company—no matter what the industry—is looking to position itself as an “innovator.”

It’s a vast understatement to say that e-commerce has changed the way the supply chain game is played.

This month in Modern we offer the third in a series of three System Reports that examine the emergence of robotics in warehousing and distribution.

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.

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.

There is no one-size-fits-all answer to today’s challenges.

We’re living in a wonderful period of “realization,” where mangers are taking the time to examine exactly what they need in certain areas of an operation instead of throwing the kitchen sink at a problem and spending millions in the process.

This month, Modern is proud to offer you the fifth installment of our annual Lift Truck Issue.

Working smarter through the appropriate application of technology has been a running theme in Modern over the last few years—so much in fact that we’ve dedicated one issue a year since 2012 to a deeper understanding of technology adoption levels as well as the role providers are playing in pushing the trends.