Upgrading Warehouse Management Systems Warehouses and distribution centers face tremendous pressure to adapt their operations to meet changing customer and market demands. To meet the demands, DCs are investing in new technologies and simultaneously developing…
Order Picking Bucket Brigades – An Introduction
Order picking bucket brigades are a way of organizing workers and orchestrating work in a warehouse pick module. The bucket brigade process balances workflow and distributes work evenly amongst the pickers, maximizing productivity and throughput….
Two Stage Picking | Doubling Productivity For Slow Moving Items In A Warehouse
The rise of ecommerce and consumer expectations of next day shipping has increased the number of warehousing jobs, but not the amount of capable workers available to fill them. In the current labor market, warehouse…
Warehouse and DC News Roundup – November 2019
New Tech Keeps Warehouse Workers Safe Warehouse workers spend hours a day bending, twisting and lifting heavy boxes, but there is a safe and an unsafe way to do their jobs. Workers who bend too…
Warehouse and DC News Roundup – October 2019
Amazon’s Next DC Strategy: Brownfields Two recent news stories may indicate that Amazon has a new “brownfields” strategy for building DCs closer to their customers. It was recently announced that the company is going to…
