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With sales surging, online retailer Zappos.com needed an order picking technology that could be up and running quickly. The answer? A system that uses robots to bring goods to order pickers.
It doesn't take magic to create an award-winning work environment, says Doug Eckrote of CDW. You just have to keep the lines of communication open and empower your people to make decisions.
After the company announced plans to buy Maytag, Whirlpool's supply chain team faced the daunting challenge of combining the supply chains of two of the world's largest appliance makers while conducting business as usual.
It won't be an easy sell, but switching fulfillment operations from wave-based to waveless picking, which pulls orders when capacity is available, may lead to spectacular productivity gains.
Last fall, DC VELOCITY Editor at Large Steve Geary wrote about the role of supply chain initiatives in helping rebuild the Iraqi economy ("can a supply chain promote peace?" November 2007). At the time, Geary was deployed in Iraq, working as a member of a team charged with promoting employment in the war-torn nation. In this follow-up article, he looks at developments in that initiative in the months since he filed his initial report.
Diagnose lift-truck performance from afar? It might sound like science fiction, but it's now possible—and it has the potential to change the way you manage your fleet.
The shipping problems facing golf-cart maker E-Z-GO were too complex to be solved by transportation software alone. But when the company added a second application to the mix, the results were well above par.
Soaring fuel costs and security restrictions have pushed the air-cargo industry into retrenchment mode. Still, predictions of catastrophe seem premature.
In the latest sign of consolidation in the supply chain software market, JDA Software Group has said it will acquire i2 Technologies Inc. for $346 million.
The Washington State Department of Transportation's decision to learn from the private sector about building resiliency into supply chains has led to the creation of what the state agency calls its Freight System Resiliency Plan.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection in June launched an online reporting system that allows tipsters to confidentially notify the agency of suspected trade violations.
There's a good reason why the top-flight coverage of defense logistics contributed to DC VELOCITY by Editor at Large Steve Geary is such a compelling read: He reports with the authority that comes from personal experience.
Cory Home Delivery Service, Penske Truck Leasing, and Demountable Concepts Inc. have pooled their expertise to provide a new service that lets furniture retailers extend their delivery radius without adding warehouses or cross-dock stations.
They may not be a big hit with consumers yet, but square, flat-topped milk jugs are the best thing since sliced bread, at least as far as Sam's Club is concerned.
Maybe it's time for those of us in the logistics profession to put aside our lengthy to-do lists for a moment, and indulge in a little lexicon-building.
Without a clear vision and clearly stated goals, we simply cannot formulate infrastructure or energy strategies, develop tactics for executing those strategies, or intelligently discuss how the necessary improvements will be funded.