Topic: Features

Apparel distributor adds 17,000 locations to increase storage capacity 86%.

With room to grow, the new system is more efficient and secure.

Meat distribution company improves quality control in refrigerated storage facilities.

Vice chair of the Ergonomic Assist Systems & Equipment (EASE) group at MHI talks to Modern about ergonomics in today's warehouse.

In Northern California, the nation’s largest distributor of wine and spirits has built a state-of-the art facility that sets a new industry standard for automated distribution.

Southern Wine & Spirits’ Northern California DC was designed to maximize throughput and accommodate growth for years to come.

Digital connections are spreading throughout the industry, enabling mobile, automated and real-time processes. But when opportunity overshadows security risks, new technologies can increase your exposure.

Rack design is moving from the concrete to the C-suite as more users quantify the impact of storage on process efficiency.

WMS vendors have integrated key 'execution' apps like LMS, slotting and TMS with their core systems, creating platforms for execution. The latest generation of these platforms also may weave in distributed order management, supply chain planning and demand management while building in flexibility for rapidly shifting fulfillment requirements.

Fabric curtain walls separate workers from temperature, noise and equipment traffic.

Voice-directed picking spreads like wildfire through the distribution network, improving productivity by 25%.

The most wasteful service call is the one that didn’t need to be made in the first place.

Manufacturers, retailers and third-party logistics organizations are investing massive amounts of effort and money—in a very short period of time—to ratchet up systems automation, install collaboration software and deploy mobile technology across the enterprise that can keep up with the pace of our new world.

As automatic data collection (ADC) technologies become affordable and ruggedized, a wider swath of logistics operations are turning to a range of equipment and software to gain efficiencies and meet the growing demands of their customers.

Modern spends 60 seconds talking to Scott Sopher at Deloitte about a recent survey conducted with MHI.

A goods-to-person picking solution moved AcuSport from conventional to automated DC processes. The result is lower fulfillment costs and better customer service.

AcuSport’s new distribution center features multiple picking methodologies designed to lower the cost of the company’s auto-replenishment program.

Building on their success in 2013, the Top 20 sustained growth in 2014 and are on track for continued improvement this year.

Though often characterized by feast or famine, this year’s view into warehouse and distribution center spending plans instead strengthens a pattern of deliberate investment. Today, readers are determined to get the most out of every dollar spent.

Fleet costs don’t stop at the purchase price, and expanded collaboration between fleet managers, dealers and finance partners is changing the way fleet costs are managed over time.