There are millions of apps for our smart phones. Why not an app store for your warehouse management system (WMS) too?

Do you need more floor space? Considering a new facility? Leasing space? The decision to add more space is a challenge for even the most experienced material handling manager. Before you proceed with new construction or a warehouse expansion project careful consideration should first be given to other space optimization alternatives. This free guide offers important information that you should know before you build a new facility.

Supply Chains are becoming an important tool for companies to gain a competitive advantage in their industry. Addressing the entire supply chain process from receiving to shipping to the retail store shelf, WITRON can help you take the lead. Learn how WITRON has given these companies an edge with automated material handling solutions for piece, case and pallet picking order fulfillment.

As manufacturers and distributors come under rising pressure for faster fulfillment of product orders and outstanding customer service, they increasingly ask the question, “Would a warehouse management system(WMS) help us better manage and automate our warehouse and fulfillment operations?” Often, they are finding that a WMS would, indeed, provide the benefits they seek. Your company may be coming to the same conclusion.

Consumer satisfaction with the quality of your products is clearly important, but the service you provide before and after the sale is equally important to any business, but often overlooked as benefiting the bottom line. However, providing efficient tracking and tracing of shipped products enhances customer loyalty and your company image. Obviously, satisfied customers are a company’s greatest asset.

This Research Paper was designed to gauge the relative importance placed on improving efficiency in warehouse operations, the impact of bar-code scanner downtime occurrences on materials handling operations, and the preferred approach to service and the level of satisfaction with that approach.

From my-world to Spiegel, from buecher.de to Langenscheidt, more than 4,000 retail shops now use the eCommerce platform Libri.de. in order to strengthen both their own competitiveness and that of their customers, as well as to continue the company's recent successful development, Libri initiated a competition in 1999 to find the best ideas for the construction of a new logistics center.

Distribution centers are under pressure to meet the increasingly demanding requirements set by the trend toward global order fulfillment of a vast and ever-changing number of goods.

What is driving the design of order fulfillment systems today? While an analysis of the activity profile (orders per day, daily unit volume, lines per order, etc.) points to the appropriate order fulfillment system design, there are other issues that will also have an influence on the process and system design. Here is an overview of the issues and trends impacting the order fulfillment process in the warehouse and distribution center today.

The articles in SCMR come from thought leaders in the academic, analyst and management consulting communities. Perhaps most importantly, they also include contributions from supply chain practioners themselves - the individuals who are literally transforming their organizations.

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