Warehouse|DC

Ask yourself this: what if your distribution center could not support changes in volume, product assortment or delivery timelines? How much would you lose in opportunity costs? As multi-channel businesses look to expand product and business lines quickly as a key competitive advantage, the speed to deploy a material handling solution becomes a critical success factor. Fast system deployment can be the difference between kicking the competition out of the water and limiting your growth.

Overall, our analysis of these use cases suggests that the broad-scale use of item-level RFID tagging in the apparel industry will yield substantial benefits to apparel manufacturers.

The findings of this exploratory study show that the potential benefits of item-level RFID in the apparel supply chain reach beyond the retailer to include apparel production and distribution.

It’s hard to imagine that nearly 10 years has passed since Walmart shined a spotlight on RFID technology in the retail supply chain. Fast forward a decade, and department store leader Macy’s is two years into an aggressive roll-out of RFID technology.

The 2,600 primarily customer attendees at this year’s JDA FOCUS were looking for lots of things. They wanted to learn about JDA eight, a cloud-based bundle of more than 30 supply chain software products built on a single platform. And they wanted to know how any one of those products – WMS, TMS, SCMP—might improve their businesses.

DataMan® logistics barcode readers are the next generation of barcode readers for postal, parcel and package sorting operations and are rapidly replacing laser scanner and line scan systems around the world.

Why Automated Pallet Load Transfer Provides the Best Handling Practice

The DataMan® product line from Cognex offers advanced barcode readers that combine the benefits of image-based readers with the ease of use and cost of laser scanners for your postal, parcel and package sorting operations.

Reading more than one barcode at a time is a challenging application for many manufacturing and material handling engineers. In these applications there is a need to read multiple codes of the same symbology as well as multiple codes of mixed symbologies within one field of view (FOV). Even more difficult is reading one or more codes on multiple sides of a product to verify that the codes match or to output both sides’ read results as one piece of...

The DataMan® product line from Cognex offers advanced barcode readers that combine the benefits of image-based readers with the ease of use and cost of laser scanners for your postal, parcel and package sorting operations.

The Jungheinrich ECR series features 3-phase AC technology and top industry speeds to ensure greater productivity.

"As a company based on speed and service, we have come to rely on the heightened work pace our Jungheinrich® products encourage," said John Schuler, senior vice president and general manager, Kuna Foodservice.

Efficient order picking plays a key role in busy warehousing and distribution facilities because maintaining fast, accurate order picking rates is essential to the success of the business. The types and methods of order picking vary greatly, but Jungheinrich® offers a wide range of order picking equipment, including walkie pallet trucks, order pickers and turret trucks, designed to fit the needs of your application.

Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA) Introduces New Jungheinrich® Order Pickers

Paper Educates Warehouse Managers On Various Lift Truck Navigation Technologies, Best Practices

LOS ANGELES, Calif., May 23, 2013 - Rehrig Pacific Company, a market leader in logistics & supply chain management, reusable transport packaging, and environmental waste & recycling solutions is pleased to announce the launch of their new GMA Rackable Plastic Pallet.

After recommendations from colleagues and partners who'd worked with them, IRLY looked to PathGuide Technologies, a leading WMS provider for industrial and retail distributors, for a quick implementation. PathGuide's Latitude software is known for automating warehousing and distribution to provide real-time information about inventory - streamlining operations for greater efficiency and overall customer service.

LoBue Citrus based in Lindsay, California, recognized the need to automate its produce traceability program. Formerly, the process was manual, which tied up critical resources and increased the likelihood of error.

This white paper provides a brief overview of laser, inkjet and thermal technologies as they relate to label printing, explains the usage scenarios when each type of printer is most appropriate, and highlights hidden cost and performance considerations for each print technology.