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Listen in as Vanderlande’s Andy Lockhart discusses the future of warehouse automation. Executive editor Bob Trebilcock hosts.

In this podcast, Michael Levans, Group Editorial Director for Peerless Media’s Supply Chain Group, is joined by Mark Walker, Vice President of EnerSys Sales, North America, in discussion on the many benefits Maintenance-Free Power—including Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) and Lithium-ion (Li-ion)—can bring to your day-to-day operations as well as your organization’s greater sustainability efforts.

Here are the protocols that the organization and the event venue have put in place and the recommendations it offers to all attendees.

In this podcast we discuss how warehouse/DC managers can take the next steps along a transformation journey, that will lead to optimized data capture, improved visibility, more productivity, and safer automated operations.

Our annual automation survey finds increasing budgets for automation and rising interest in automated solutions with reliable parts availability, as well as turnkey, integrated solutions. And though budgets are up, stresses show around labor availability, raising its importance as a driver for automation.

On this episode, Stanley Fawcett and Michael Knemeyer share what supply chain managers can learn from rock’s best-known drummers. SCMR's Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.

The just-in-time (JIT) to businesses and the supply chain is a practice that requires close coordination with suppliers to ensure that product components arrive in time for production to begin, but no earlier.

Stay competitive in an evolving landscape by embracing Industry 4.0 technologies.

Covid was a catalyst and advanced technology the enabler that made remote MRO training and support a force to be reckoned with. And not just until the danger of Covid passes. Remote MRO is here to stay.

Highlights from ISM's fourth round of research on the virus' effects on global supply chains

In its “Q1 Industrial Outlook,” JLL Director of U.S. Industrial Research Mehtab Randhawa wrote that e-commerce continues to be a trending topic of discussion, with demand from this industry driving the bulk of industrial leasing, with the caveat that leasing volumes are starting to normalize following an anomaly year.

Study by ToolsGroup and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals found only 3% of companies experienced no COVID-related business impact, while 42% say the pandemic has accelerated their digitization plan

ModusLink is one of the only 38 suppliers in the Intel supply chain to receive an SAA honor for 2020

In this video, Arash Azadegan discusses supply network resilience strategies in response to the pandemic

Total February U.S.-bound import shipments—at 1,099,310—were up 29.3% annually, while also outpacing February 2019 by 20.1% and are up 25.9% year-to-date, at 2,338,297. Meanwhile, containerized freight imports—at 2,464,007 TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units) saw a 20% annual increase, for the month, with a 17.8% annual gain, to 5,270,966 TEU. The firm said that cumulative January and February shipments helped to “scrub the effect” of the timing of Lunar New Year imports from Asia and were up 17.9% compared to the same period in 2020.