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Peter Bradley is an award-winning career journalist with more than three decades of experience in both newspapers and national business magazines. His credentials include seven years as the transportation and supply chain editor at Purchasing Magazine and six years as the chief editor of Logistics Management.
Crider Foods' warehouse was becoming a chokepoint in the company's fast-growing fulfillment operations. The solution turned out to be pallet storage and flow rack—tools Crider then brought along when it built a new DC.
The law that funds highway spending expires at the end of the current federal fiscal year, and that means the battle over what to fund and how to fund it begins again.
Mobile technologies designed for DCs continue to improve, but the real action is in the growing use of these devices at every link in the supply chain.
We won't have androids picking eaches any time soon, but robots used in distribution centers are becoming more sophisticated and moving deeper into operations.
To help manage the flow of outbound goods from its Utah plant, yogurt giant Dannon built a new warehouse featuring an automated storage and retrieval system. The result? Annual cost savings of over $3 million.
Genco's operation on behalf of a major customer already ran well. But linking labor management and lift truck management systems yielded further improvements.