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With millions of muggles waiting for the latest Harry Potter volume to hit the bookstores (or their doorsteps), the people charged with its distribution relied not on magic, but on careful planning and painstaking execution.
In European DCs, bags of coffee and sugar are whipping out of highly automated storage and retrieval systems at a rate of 3,000 cases per hour. Is America next?
Blindsided by Wal-Mart's aggressive push into their market, grocers find themselves fighting for survival. Maybe they can't compete on price but they can cut the fat from their supply chains.
Each of the 17,000 containers entering U.S. ports each day represents a potential security risk. They can't all be inspected on arrival. Sounds like time for some out-of-the-box thinking.