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Addressing Labor Shortages in Warehouse and DC Operations

NC State SCRC

facility at an Indianapolis, Ind., Many other jobs such as Material Handler, pickers, and other general warehouse position are bretween $12,00-$14,000, with fork life operators making up to $16 range. Once we hire them, keeping them in the warehouse is a whole other issue! These gains don’t show signs of slowing down.

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Demand and Fulfillment Blocking & Tackling: Part 5 – Knowledge Is Power

BlueYonder

But what makes us so curious about data? Let me remind you of some names for those: double-handling, overstocking, out-of-stock, late shipments, and unplanned external warehousing. Now it is time to gather the right set of data and relay the forecasted demand to the operational functions of supply chain. Sound simple?

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Walmart Rolling Out Four High-Tech FCs

Multichannel Merchant

Walmart said the first facility, opening this summer in Joliet, IL, outside Chicago, will feature an automated, high-density storage system from Knapp, a provider of AI-driven warehouse and robotics and automation that will double both the storage capacity and number of orders processed. in a blog post.

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The Supply Chain Can?t Stop: A story from the front lines at Ken?s Foods

Elementum

and warehouse staffing issues compounded. Today, they produce and package over 1,000 varieties of dressings and sauces — including category leader, Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce — across 4 plants near Boston, Indianapolis, Atlanta, and Las Vegas. That changed quickly however, as U.S. Director of Supply Chain at Ken’s Foods.

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Stord Partners with IPG to Launch New Warehouse Collaboration After Centralizing eCommerce Operations with a Single Integration to Connect Their ERP to Stord’s Omni-Channel Distribution Network

Stord

The integration offers further visibility into IPG’s existing Third Party Logistics Warehouses (“3PLs”) as well as the ability to leverage Stord’s distribution network to seamlessly launch numerous additional warehouses through 2020. Stord’s integration brought all their inventory and order data to one place.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 25-29, 2014)

Talking Logistics

The Newegg Express service is only available to customers that live within 50 miles of the company’s City of Industry warehouse in Los Angeles. If successful, the program will expand next to Indianapolis, IN; Edison, NJ; and Memphis, TN.”. For a $19.99 fee, orders placed by 11 AM will be delivered by 6 PM.