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John Johnson joined the DC Velocity team in March 2004. A veteran business journalist, John has over a dozen years of experience covering the supply chain field, including time as chief editor of Warehousing Management. In addition, he has covered the venture capital community and previously was a sports reporter covering professional and collegiate sports in the Boston area. John served as senior editor and chief editor of DC Velocity until April 2008.
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.
In a crunch a space crunch, that is a high-rise automated storage and retrieval system can work wonders, freeing up acres of DC floor space. And you'd be astonished to learn just what today's systems can handle.
FDA approval came too late for last year's flu season. But Wyeth Pharmaceuticals plans to make up for lost time with this year's launch of its nasal influenza vaccine, FluMist. It's banking on a high-tech cold chain distribution network to make it happen.
If you store high-value products, the question is not if you'll have a security breach, but when and how much you'll lose. Is there any way to prevent the vanishing act?