Mainfreight USA, a global supply-chain and logistics services provider, has added two warehouses to its North American logistics network, in Newark, N.J., and Dallas.
The top four emerging trends driving the global pallet market are greater emphasis on automation processes and use of new technologies, vertical integration by companies, growing preference for block pallets, and the rise in power of pallet pooling companies, according to Technavio transportation and logistics research analysts.
BlueStar, Inc., a global distributor of ADC, mobility, point-of-sale, radio frequency identification, digital signage and security technology, is now offering the new ZD410 and ZD420 desktop printers from Zebra Technologies.
Challenge: A pharmaceutical company's existing manual pick/pass picking system was constrained due to unbalanced workload across the operation — flooding some zones while others had no orders to pick.
Advances in software and hardware, spurred on by economic trends, new customer demands and a persistent labor shortage, are transforming the way in which goods are handled within distribution centers.
DHL says it has successfully concluded a pilot program aimed at testing the effectiveness of using robots to help out the people working in their warehouses.
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