Dematic helped to achieve a 15% increase in production at Parmalat Lidcombe and will now build a high bay warehouse for Smith’s Snackfood. PepsiCo’s Australian snacks division, The Smith’s Snackfood Company, has given ...
Tags: Australian Food, Australian snacks
A true Tier-1 WCS must be equipped to handle 2D barcode and RFID data for individual unique SKU track and trace requirements.Multi-channel order fulfillment, referred to in the logistics industry as omni-channel fulfillment, is increasingly ...
Wesfarmers-owned Blackwoods, Australia's largest supplier of industrial, and safety workplace goods, will build a new distribution centre in Greystanes, Sydney. The largest business of the Wesfarmers Industrial and Safety Division, ...
Tags: Retail Giant, DC
The Exchange; Waco, Texas Size: 650,000 square feet Products: General merchandise SKUs: 18,000 Throughput: Ships 25,000 cases per day Shifts: 2 shifts a day/5 days per week Employees: 400 A new conveyor and sortation system ...
The base Exchange store is both a perk and tradition of military life. Every day, millions of active duty and retired service personnel and their families shop at the Exchange for everything from candy bars to lawn mowers. Merchandise is ...
January 30, 2013 “….. and its all tied together by software.” That was the phrase I heard at nearly every press conference I attended last week at ProMat. It reflects a significant shift in our industry. Equipment is ...
Tags: software, software solutions, operations
It’s Friday morning and another ProMat is behind us. My legs are shot. My back hurts. My spirits are pretty high. That’s because I think it was a successful show. The best of the industry was on display. You expect that at ...
Tags: ProMat, 2013, George Prest, CEO, MHI
Westfalia (Booth 1236) has enhanced its Savanna.NET warehouse management software (WMS) over the past two years to get “SMART”—an acronym that encompasses system monitoring, reporting and troubleshooting, said Dave ...
Start making waves. Efficient order fulfillment begins with wave planning. "Planning and decision-making used to be a complicated process, but now take minutes with this application. Wave planning is an enterprise-level tool that is ...
Tags: Qc Software, application, Wave planning
Diagnostic software improves system reliability and increases productivity in the warehouse. With access to real time statistics, you have greater visibility and control over your operation, and can quickly respond to unexpected events. ...
Tags: Warehouse Productivity, Diagnostic software, software solutions
QC Software, a forward-thinking software provider for the material handling industry, announces the appointment of Tom Lagaly to their Business Development team. Lagaly, a regional sales professional with 40+ years of industry experience, ...
Tags: QC Software, software, material handling, company news
An effective warehouse control system is agile, reliable and responsive to the changing supply chain. The software must provide connectivity, visibility and real time analytics to streamline processes, reduce costs and meet customer ...
Tags: warehouse control system, supply chain, software, distribution software
Let's talk about software. When that topic comes up at Modern, we're generally talking about warehouse management systems. And for good reason. During the late 1990's, when I began writing about materials handling automation, end users were ...
Tags: software, management systems, warehouse, shipment
Local dignitaries held a special grand opening for the new 463,000 square foot Urban Outfitters,Inc.West Coast Internet Fulfillment Center facility in Reno,Nevada. Attendees of the event included Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval,US Senator ...
Tags: Urban Outfitters, investment, LEED, internet facility
Monday marked the opening of Supply Chain Advantage, the annual logistics conference in Park City, Utah sponsored by Dematic. If you operate a warehouse, distribution center or transportation department (sorry, competing vendors are not ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Components, Manufacturing, Processing Machinery