Warehouse Management News
Design Distribution Centers for Profitability with SKU Profiling
The decisions surrounding whether a SKU should be stocked and where, and in what status it is to be held in the supply chain, impact the profitability of your company.
7 Ecommerce Enabled Warehouse Best Practices
With ecommerce sales climbing by double-digit numbers every quarter, here are some best practices warehouse and DC managers can try to work better, smarter and faster.
Amazon’s Drone Delivery from a Flying Warehouse
The e-commerce giant has been awarded a patent that describes a logistics technology it calls "airborne fulfillment center" which essentially is an airship that's capable of flying at altitudes of 45,000 feet or more that would house items the company sells through its online marketplace.
5 Warning Signs of Asset MISmanagement
Running out of critical assets can literally shut down operations. Look out for these five asset mismanagement warning signs to ensure this doesn't happen to your business.
Amazon Using Merchants Warehouse Space to Expand Inventory for Quick Delivery
Amazon is turning to merchants who sell on its marketplace for extra warehouse space, a less-costly way to expand inventory available for quick delivery; independent vendors provide half of all goods sold on site, online retailer can’t build its own facilities quickly enough.
Study Suggests Accelerated Investment in Warehouse Technology
Zebra Technologies, has announced the results of its latest Warehouse Vision Study, which compares input from 1,378 IT and operations warehouse professionals on expectations in 2015 versus 2020.
8 Steps to Next-Day Delivery Fulfillment Efficiency
With e-commerce order fulfillment a requirement for many warehouses, next-day delivery processes must get done one way or another, but the real question increasingly isn’t will you need to handle next-day fulfillment, but how efficiently can you do it?
How Third-Party Logistics Bid on New Proposals
Consumer demands are transforming supply chains, and a successful third-party logistics provider must be a partner in its customers’ transformations, the result: a substantial increase in services and capabilities.
The Emerging “Uberization” of Dynamic On-Demand Warehousing for eCommerce
Dynamic on-demand warehousing involves buying warehousing services on a pay-per-use basis, and just as with Uber and AirBnB, exemplars of today’s “on-demand” economy, users and providers meet and transact with each other via an online marketplace.
5 Tips for a Successful Cloud Warehouse Management System Deployment
Expert recommendations for saving time and money on your cloud warehouse management system implementation.
Budgeting for a Cloud Warehouse Management System
A cloud WMS provides the flexibility to increase user capacity to match your natural spikes in production and demand, this increases agility throughout the calendar year allows you to pay only for the licenses you need, reducing your total cost of ownership.
Amazon Creating 120,000 Seasonal Jobs in Fulfillment and Customer Service
So far this year, Amazon has created tens of thousands of new full-time jobs at its U.S. fulfillment and customer service centers.
8 Steps to Help Transition to the FASB Approved New Lease Accounting Rules
Looming deadlines require the wider organization to understand challenges and risks of the new standard, and how functions within the organization must adapt.
Warehouse Work: Path to the Middle Class or Road to Economic Insecurity?
Before claiming that warehouse jobs provide a pathway to the middle class, we need to assess whether official industry wage models accurately measure what workers in this sector actually earn.
Numina Group Announces the Release of a Full Featured Warehouse Management System, WMS
The company expands the breadth and functionality of its top tier Real-time Distribution Software, RDS™ WES-WCS order fulfillment automation software suite by integrating the advanced Ehrhardt + Partner, E+P LFS.wms.
Selection of a Warehouse Management System External or Integrated Solutions?
When selecting a WMS, the range of functions, the options for modification, the future-proofness of the software as well as the software producer’s project experience, support, know-how and training concept should be taken into consideration.
Guideline for the Selection of a Warehouse Management System
The more you know about the strengths and weaknesses of your existing logistic environment, the better you are prepared for selecting a suitable warehouse management system.
The Pain of Packing in an E-Commerce World
For any business with a B2C component, the warehouse has changed dramatically over the last few years...many retailers are closing or scaling back their brick and mortar shops in favor of increasing their direct to consumer business.
XPO Logistics Warehouse Workers File for Teamster Representation
The Teamsters union is expanding efforts to organize employees at XPO Logistics, from ports to less-than-truckload terminals and warehouses.
When Flexibility, Innovation and Speed Unite
Warehouse execution software and automation systems can help your business teams be more agile and flexible, and lead you to turn risk into opportunity.
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