August 2015
Five Strategies for Optimizing Warehouse Operations with Automation
Clients in the News: From SKU proliferation, to e commerce, to increasing customer demand, changes and trends in today’s supply chains have significantly complicated the warehousing industry. Now, as warehousing organizations look for new ways to stay ahead of these shifts and challenges, many are embracing automation technology to drive new efficiencies. Read more:
Keep ReadingFinding the Right Delivery Partners for the Last Mile
Clients in the News: The last mile (i.e., package delivery to the customer’s doorstep) is a major challenge for cross-border e-commerce merchants. Most often, retailers must rely on shipping providers or the local postal service to cover this very important segment of their supply chain. Doing so can involve huge risks if the provider doesn’t fit...
Keep ReadingThe Secret to UHF RFID Reading Success
Clients in the News: For years, the RFID industry worked tirelessly to improve RFID read rates just so that an RFID tag on a piece of inventory or asset could be read as it passed a reader. The first few generations worked exclusively on picking up this small, weak signal, and declared “VICTORY” when the...
Keep ReadingOriginLab Launches OriginPro Coursework Package
Clients in the News: OriginLab, a provider of data analysis and graphing software, will start offering an OriginPro Coursework Package to students and instructors this coming academic semester. The license is available to undergraduate or graduate students enrolled in a class or as a one-year license for instructors. Read more:
Keep ReadingBuffalo Trace Distillery Is One of the First Spirits Suppliers to Use an Automated Storage and Retrieval System
Clients in the News: Westfalia Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of logistics solutions for manufacturers, warehouses and distribution centers since 1992, announces that Buffalo Trace Distilleryhas completed the construction of a new distribution center featuring its automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS). One of the first spirits suppliers to use an AS/RS, Buffalo Trace will leverage the...
Keep ReadingPutting the Science Back in Fundraising
Clients in the News: Let me just say it outright. I am not a fan of the email barrage tactic that has been so prevalent in fundraising of late. All too often there is no ask. Instead, the recipient receives what amounts to a threat that “If you don’t donate $X today, then some dire...
Keep ReadingHermes Expanding Russian Parcel Business
Clients in the News: In a statement issued today (4 August), Hermes said that it has acquired DPD’s 49% share of their Russian joint venture Hermes-DPD, explaining that this move will “further accelerate the integration of the company in Hermes’ Continental Parcel Network”. Read more:
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