Warehouse DC

See which 12 metrics your peers are counting on to drive the greatest improvement in their performance, as reported by the 2020 Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) DC Measures Report.

The report, entitled “The State of Yard Management: Industry Report 2021,” was based on feedback from 375 respondents in various sectors, including consumer packaged goods (CPG), food & beverage, retail and manufacturing, with a focus on how shippers in various sectors and approach specific pain points, among other topics.

In its “United States Industrial Outlook - Q4 2020,” JLL explained that increased e-commerce activity translated into what it called a steep rise for warehouse space.

Despite the scares COVID-19 has hurled on other industries, e-commerce has ensured high demand for warehousing, distribution and fulfillment.

As we begin to turn a coronavirus corner, it is crucial that supply chain leaders work to envision what the next normal will look like. They must plan on how best to position a new beginning in order to emerge healthy and competitive.

John Paxton, Chief Executive Officer at MHI, talked with Modern Materials Handling, LM's sister publication, about the upcoming virtual ProMat show

The report, entitled “Q4 2020 U.S. Industrial & Logistics Real Estate Figures,” observed that the fourth quarter represented the strongest quarter on record, adding that it capped off a year of robust demand, with the outlook for 2021 looking very healthy.

The business case for collaborative mobile robotics.

Though robotic industrial trucks are still a small slice of the market, expectations are growing for them as operations seek to speed up their processes while lessening the struggle of trying to find enough operators.

Learn how a strong managed services and technology partner can help companies overcome these and other obstacles in the modern fulfillment environment.

The companies said that this collaboration will augment warehouse productivity, order pick accuracy, and workplace ergonomics and safety.

While there has been a heightened sense of attention being paid to the overload of goods ordered online this holiday season, due, in large part, to the COVID-19 pandemic, one inevitable aspect of the frenetic pace of holiday-related e-commerce activity will be how much of an impact it will have on reverse logistics. That was a key theme of a report recently released by Los Angeles-based industrial real estate developer CBRE, entitled “Reverse Logistics Stress Test: Holiday E-Commerce Spike Will...

Learn how to make chronic inventory problems a thing of the past.

Significant changes may be coming for Greenwich, Conn.-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider XPO Logistics, with the company announcing today that its board of directors signed off on the approval of a plan to seek a spin-off of its logistics group as a standalone publicly traded company.

For over 50 years, PHCbi brand biomedical freezers and pharmaceutical refrigerators have offered a comprehensive selection of cold-chain storage solutions for high-value vaccines and other biologics.