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Filling orders from an inventory of 69,000 parts sounds anything but simple. Yet the folks at Future Electronics' new DC insist their workers could do it with their eyes closed.

Think RFID chips are the obvious solution for tracking two million items without labor-intensive scanning? Think again.

Move over, Han Solo. Retailer Too Inc. has also made the jump to lightspeed. Its blazing fast new put-to-light fulfillment system has sent DC operations into hyperdrive.

The descriptions are right out of the personal ads: they're smart, they're sensitive, they're adaptable. But the ubjects aren't single men or women; they're today's high-tech conveyors.

And so long, calculators. At Home Depot Supply's DCs, a sophisticated "dimensioning" system has brought storage operations into the 21st century.

The secret to shipping live lobsters, mussels or littlenecks isn't high-tech refrigeration equipment, says Legal Sea Foods. It's speed.

Lipstick? Yoga mats? No problem. When it comes to order picking and packing, nothing fazes this third-party fulfillment operation.

One day workers were fumbling with tape measures; the next they were watching wide eyed as incoming cartons whizzed through high-tech scanners. How cubing equipment changed life at Ditan Distribution.

Distribution centers often see little worth in value-added services. Usually, VAS requests simply add expense to already costly picking operations.