Shippers use drop trailers, containers that a driver leaves at a shipping facility for the recipient to load and unload when they choose. Then the original or next driver picks up the trailer. Here are essential points for logistics firms to know about when to use and not use a drop trailer program. What Are [...]
Category Archives: Warehouse Systems
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Oct
Oct
The goal is to turn inventory into cash. When inventory sits around, it's taking valuable space that can negate profits. Excess inventory management strategies are necessary to reduce the chances of an oversupply of low-demand merchandise. Here are essential insights into managing excess inventory. What Is Excess Inventory? Logistics experts define excess inventory management as [...]
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Sep
Sep
Seasonality can have a tremendous impact on your entire supply chain, including your warehouse operations. It can affect what and when inventory items shift from slow-moving to fast-moving and vice versa. It can impact lead times from your suppliers to your distribution center and consequently move capacity requirements for in-house storage areas. It can also [...]
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Sep
Sep
In a competitive environment, businesses must establish good relationships with supply chain members or suffer the consequences. When a supplier runs low on goods your enterprise depends upon, you need trustworthy backup suppliers. Sometimes it's difficult to get a supplier to respond to your immediate needs. Still, if the two organizations treat each other as [...]
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Aug
Aug
Whether due to errors in fulfillment or theft, shrinkage can eat into profits and leave businesses struggling to stay afloat. And yet, many business owners don’t realize how much inventory shrinkage affects their bottom line. For example, the average reported shrinkage rate for just eCommerce businesses was 1.62% of their annual sales. For an eCommerce [...]
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Aug
Aug
Warehouse inventory management is more than just the practice of arranging your inventory so that it can be found quickly, it’s about maximizing productivity while saving time and money to increase inventory accuracy. For example, some practices like labeling are intuitive and can be done without the use of software. But practices like using barcodes [...]
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Jul
Jul
To those on the outside looking into the world of logistics, it might be hard to understand that warehousing is more complicated than it seems. After all, how difficult is it to put something on a shelf? Those who work in the industry understand that it takes hard work and know-how to do it right. [...]
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Jul
Jul
Warehouse racking and storage systems provide the ideal product throughput based on your warehouse needs. Looking for the ideal storage system for your distribution center? Or, maybe seeking to remove the bulk product from your floors and transform your warehouse? All can be accomplished with a versatile warehouse racking solution. With the right solutions, you'll [...]
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Jun
Jun
What’s with all the hype with micro-fulfillment? How can automated solutions propel warehouses to the next level? With the continuous rise in online consumer spending and e-commerce fulfillment, more warehouses and distribution centers are turning towards AS/RS (automated storage and retrieval systems) technologies to serve, meet, and expand the demands of their business. These technologies, [...]
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Jun
Jun
First, what is a stockout? In today’s fast-moving marketplace, supply shortages can be caused by any number of factors within the supply chain. A stockout, however, refers specifically to a product being unavailable at the point of retail (whether in-store or online). No matter where in the supply chain the shortage happens, the customer experience [...]