Topic: Warehouse

Paccurate put together this report to support your cost-saving and sustainability initiatives this year.

JAB is a leading player in lifting platform technology and industrial compressors.

Our annual maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) survey shows it’s become a little easier to do both, but challenges remain.

The report’s benchmark metric, the PMI came in at 47.8 (a reading of 50 or higher indicates growth), down 1.3% compared to January’s 49.1 reading, contracting, at a faster rate, for the 16th consecutive month.

Say goodbye to long travel distances and hello to improved productivity with our guide to reducing warehouse travel.

Commerce reported that January retail sales, at $700.3 billion, were off 0.8% compared to December and up 0.6% compared to January 2023. NRF reported that January’s core retail sales, which it bases on Census data and excludes automobile dealers, gasoline stations, and restaurants, fell 0.8%, from December to January, while increasing 2.8% annually.

Three finalists were chosen as the most innovative products in each category based on concept, value, and impact, including the inaugural Best Innovation in Sustainability category.

Collaboration integrates Banyan’s extensive less-than-truckload (LTL) services into ProShip’s advanced Parcel offering to expand shipping options for clients.

The facility features one of the tallest Dematic Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS) for a third-party logistics (3PL) facility in Canada, with 130-foot-tall cranes that support fulfillment of fresh and frozen products from high-density cold storage.

Pocket sorters excel at buffering, sequencing, as well as sortation, making them a good fit for companies trying to pull off highly efficient order consolidation for store and e-commerce orders—as well as put returned goods right back into the fulfillment flow.

Listen in as Jeff Haushalter, a partner with Chicago Consulting, discusses the state of sustainability and why a focus on packaging can deliver profitable, and sustainable, results. Executive editor Bob Trebilcock hosts.

Perfect your packing for efficient shipping.

CBRE reported that the largest 100 industrial lease transactions in 2023 included 43 deals for 1 million square-feet or more, which the firm describes as “megawarehouses.” This fell short of 2022’s record-high 63 deals and 2021’s strong 57 deals tally.  The average size of the top 100 leases came in at 986,744 square-feet, down from 2023’s record 1.07 MSF and the previous record set in 2021, at 1.05 MSF.

The scholarships celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Dematic’s Automated Storage Retrieval System in the Mary Idema Pew Library. Installed at GVSU’s Allendale campus in 2013, the Dematic AS/RS fully automates the book collection process.

New Lucas Systems market study finds game mechanics can drive employee engagement.

December imports, at 2.2 million TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units), increased 9% in December, matching November’s annual percentage gain. For all of calendar year 2023, S&P reported that imports fell 8.5%, to 28.9 million TEU, while the fourth quarter posted an 8% annual improvement.

The “just-in-case” era is over, with operations looking to right-size inventory levels while avoiding stock outs. That may call for layers of technology, starting but not ending with WMS and effective data capture.

At least part of future packaging success here sits in the cloud. Using cloud for packaging.

Collaborative robot enables new palletizing automation for Bob’s Red Mill, hitting the whole grain manufacturer’s needs for speed and safety. Warehouse robotics provide efficiencies in the warehouse.

Author and industry leader Robert Martichenko tapped to succeed Mark E. Richards.