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Warehousing & Fulfillment Process Benchmark & Best Practices Guide

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Articles

Battery Changing Room "Dos and Don'ts"
DC Velocity - July 13, 2010

A poorly designed or managed lift-truck battery changing room could cost you money and create safety risks. Here are some tips on how to get it right.
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Make Sustainability More Understandable
Material Handling Management - July 12, 2010

To give trading partners a common way of talking about packaging and sustainability, The Consumer Goods Forum issued a report titled “A Global Language for Packaging and Sustainability.” It offers a common framework and measurement system trading partners can use to help them make more informed decisions about their packaging.
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Three Unique Approaches to Voice Picking
Modern Materials Handling - July 12, 2010

Our warehouse/DC engineer takes a look at three distribution operations employing three unique approaches to voice picking. But no matter how different each solution may be, these operations illustrate how the benefits of picking with voice remain largely the same.
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Improve Supply Chain Execution with Better Technology
Material Handling Management - July 6, 2010

The importance of information to the success of supply chains is stronger than ever given economic conditions. Information is what links every node and enterprise of a supply chain. And that's where supply chain execution software and related data capture technologies come into the picture.
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Importers' Requests to Software Vendors Provide Window on 10+2 Compliance
DC Velocity - July 1, 2010

For an idea of how 10+2 compliance has been going, you only have to look at the requests importers are making of their trade management software vendors.
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Boardroom Survey Reveals Ingredients to Supply Chain Strategy Success
Logistics Today - July 1, 2010

The supply chain function is now widely recognized as an important part of the business, and two-thirds of the companies in a recent poll have senior supply chain representation in the boardroom.
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Report: Logistics Expenditures Hit Record Lows in '09, led by sharp fall in transport spending
DC Velocity - June 9, 2010

One word could best sum up the state of the U.S. logistics industry last year: ugly. The cost of operating the nation's business logistics system declined in 2009 to $1.1 trillion, an 18.2 percent drop from 2008 levels and the steepest year-on-year fall since record keeping began in 1981, according to the annual State of Logistics Report released June 9 in Washington, D.C. In all, business logistics costs last year declined by $244 billion during 2008, the report said.
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Inventory Management
Business Mirror- June 10, 2010

How well you manage your inventory can mean the difference between life and death to a company. Not having enough raw materials means not being able to manufacture what your customers are ordering, but keeping too much finished goods inventory when your customers don't need it results in a host of so many other problems.
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What You Need to Know About the EU's New Import Control System
Logistics Today - June 3, 2010

Every time you turn around, it seems there's a new regulatory requirement. Governments around the world are updating customs codes, modernizing and introducing technology processes, and changing classifications — all in the name of streamlining revenue collection and enforcing supply chain security. The European Union has been and continues to be very active in promulgating legislation to support its drive to create a single customs union for its 27 member states.
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