Conference Coverage: NA 2010 May 5, 2010
Sorting out sortation
By DC Velocity Staff
BEUMER Corporation, a specialist in the design and supply of material handling and sortation systems, offered a seminar on high-speed sortation systems for distribution centers and warehouses during the NA2010 Material Handling and Logistics Show in Cleveland last week. The seminar focused on the economics of sortation and included case studies by representatives of Land's End, Oriental Trading Company, and MBS Text Book Exchange.
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