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A new goods-to-person robotic technology is the heart of Pan Pacific Pet’s order fulfillment strategy.

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.

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The 3PL’s new facility in Asheville, Ohio, is a showcase for next-generation technologies, including robotics and automated packaging.

Form factors continue to evolve as retailers look for the right mix for meeting consumer expectations from the DC to the store.

With its new Texas DC, the world’s largest distributor of alcoholic beverages has built one of the most automated facilities in its network and continues to lead the way in automation adoption.

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Wholly-owned subsidiary to offer storage, logistics and distribution solutions. Ankaa’s mission is to provide seamless vertical integration solutions for beverage alcohol suppliers that are efficient, transparent, and differentiated, the company said.

With a voice-directed picking solution, Baptist Health South Florida gained big on throughput and accuracy, while offering workers an intuitive user interface.

This webinar will discuss the recent development of embedding motion-control technology into conveyors to enable packages to be correctly presented to a robot so that throughput of the manual task that the robot has been assigned to perform is maximized.

The Odom Corporation is using lift trucks, high density storage and a pick module to streamline its case-handling operations in Anchorage.

Investment in automation equipment is on the rise as growing e-commerce demand and tightening service level agreements (SLAs) increase pressure on distribution centers (DCs) to ship more products faster than ever before.

At its new Huntsville, Ala., distribution center, C-StoreMaster has created stripped down and simplified processes to serve its customers.

American Eagle Outfitters has long been a leader in e-fulfillment inside its distribution centers. The next step: Move outside the four walls with a distributed fulfillment network that is shared by other like-minded retailers to compete with the big guys.