Topic: Features

Forward pick area uses hanging textile compartments to improve picker efficiency.

Grocery distributor sees energy and maintenance savings with fully automatic insulated doors.

Real-time view into massive yard boosts efficiency while reducing the number of yard tenders.

Generic regulations and misused solutions often undermine effective practices for keeping lift trucks away from people, product and problems.

Modern spends 60 seconds talking to Jim Rice, deputy director of the Center for Transportation and Logistics at MIT about supply chain innovation.

As we’ve been covering the last few years, the ability to design and implement a dynamic, flexible, automated distribution facility—one able to bend and respond to demand and cut freight costs—is a critical element to success in meeting the multichannel fulfillment challenge brought on by the evolution of e-commerce.

One of the country’s largest pizza makers turned to supply chain software and voice technology to streamline distribution processes and deliver fresh ingredients to its stores.

Pizza maker Papa John’s relies on a suite of supply chain software applications and voice recognition technology to deliver the freshest dough and ingredients to its stores.

Though compensation is climbing less rapidly than in recent years, the percentage of satisfied employees is approaching perfection.

Omni-channel pressures are driving modular warehouse execution suites built on a WCS core. Here’s how these solutions differ from traditional WCS below and WMS above, and manage fulfillment operations in new, dynamic ways.

In a world where every second matters, new solutions are helping conveyor and sortation systems of all ages achieve previously unthinkable performance targets.

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

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.

Eight-month utility study validates efficiency benefits of integrated and controllable lighting systems.

New system provides carryover benefits from DC to materials management for hospital staff.

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.

Disciplined battery management in the warehouse can be undermined in the freezer, where shorter runtimes often lead to abuse.

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

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’ new facility relies on a warehouse control system and voice-directed picking to synchronize parallel pick and pack activities across pick modules.