Distribution Center

New sub-company to focus on scalable shuttle solutions for medium-sized companies.

The SDI Executive Logistics Forum will be held in Las Vegas in early February.

Center to be equipped with slopes, loading docks, warehouse racks, customer-specific loads and battery exchange stations to simulate operational environment.

Surveyed warehouse IT and operations decision-makers cite growing need to increase worker productivity and automate, streamline processes.

Agreement will supply the latest technologies for automating pick, pack, and ship order fulfillment to the Australian-New Zealand markets.

Units to run material handling equipment at newly constructed distribution facility.

Despite clear inefficiencies, many are reluctant to make change until the damage is done.

Global real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle is acting as a strategic advisor on a planned $1.5 billion investment into North American logistics and real estate development by Australia-based developer Goodman Group through an exclusive agreement with Irvine, Calif.-based Birtcher Development.

Our industry is getting attention for all the wrong reasons.

While 2012 is expected to be a slow growth year overall for commercial real estate sector, a report from global commercial real estate company Grubb & Ellis Company cited how the logistics real estate market “has become the most resilient and dynamic segment of the overall U.S. industrial real estate market.

The 6th Annual Warehouse and Distribution Center (DC) Operations Survey findings reveal that inventory turns are not improving, more DCs are closing rather than opening, and many companies are remaining cautious with equipment investment.

To accelerate its distribution processes, Urban Outfitters brought outsourced logistics back inhouse in a new distribution center in Reno. The result: Faster turnaround times and lower operating costs.

The “Essential Information for an Effective and Efficient Product Recall” brochure from IFDA and IFMA outlines information to help distributors remove recalled product from the supply chain as soon as possible.

The Boyd Company 2011 Comparative Distribution Warehousing Industry Operating Costs study compares the cost of operations in a 50 U.S. and Canadian cities.

The Stonco Warehouse Energy Program offers total warehouse and distribution center energy optimization from a single source.