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How to find warehouse workers: leave it to a 3PL

Kanban Logistics

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the struggle to find warehouse workers had been a common theme in the logistics world. Now, instead of a mad scramble to hire, many warehousing companies are letting associates go. Many companies are continuing to lay off warehouse associates. The job cuts soon followed.

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3PL order fulfillment: dealing with minimum charges

Kanban Logistics

If you are searching for 3PL order fulfillment companies in North Carolina, or anywhere, you may come up against “minimums.” In this article, we’ll examine order fulfillment minimums and explain how to best navigate them. These minimum requirements can be a non-starter for smaller companies just ramping up their volumes.

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How to Navigate eCommerce Fulfillment Costs

Kanban Logistics

Specifically, how to make them lower. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at fulfillment costs and show you how partnering with a third-party logistics (3PL) provider can result in significant cost savings compared to handling fulfillment on your own. Warehouse equipment. A warehouse management system (WMS).

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Supply Chain Disruption and Digitization

Enterra Insights

Yet, more and more articles address the topic of digital disruption and see it as an opportunity. The latest technologies being experimented with are robots in warehouses, drones, and autonomous vehicles. And truck platooning is being experimented with in North Carolina. Blockchain. Footnotes. [1]

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Beyond The Data with William Sandoval

The Logistics of Logistics

I’m based out of Charlotte, North Carolina, which is a beautiful part of the country. We also have a division that focuses on the warehouse, tracking the forklifts and the assets that are collected by those forklifts. Now we have customers that are saying, “The warehouse space is such an unsafe place.

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What do Product Rework Companies Do?

Kanban Logistics

When you’re looking for logistics services such as warehousing, one word that you might see pop up regularly is “rework.” In this article, we’ll take a look at some of those services and examine what product rework companies can do for your business. It’s also an umbrella term that encompasses a wide variety of distinct services.

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

Today’s executives may want to give this old adage a closer look because empirical data continues to underscore just how important culture is to the performance of a firm. They have to search in many systems within the firm or have to email and ask their IT contacts how to obtain the data they need. A storm is brewing.