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The Monthly Metric: Inventory Insights Throughout its four years in this little corner of cyberspace, The Monthly Metric has often discussed measurements that help supply managers keep tabs on

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During a Pandemic, Technology Can Increase Driver and Employee Safety As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues, services-sector professionals — hospital staff and first responders, along

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Optimizing Warehouse Storage to Boost Productivity The handling and assignment of stock-keeping units (SKUs) and the movement of inventory between areas can present challenges for warehouse

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Holidays Call for Logistics Planning and Technologies The holiday season has long been underway for supply managers, who are ramping up distribution plans for goods that have already arrived in

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Last-Mile Delivery Companies Are Rethinking Real-Estate Priorities Location is always said to be the most important factor when it comes to real estate. But location isn’t the only consideration

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Making Safety Count — On the Road and the Bottom Line As the delivery space grows and evolves, last-mile carriers are faced with increasing costs related to warehousing rents, labor and

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14 Industrial Locales Considered‘Strategic’ Markets Due to their infrastructure and large millennial populations, among other factors, industrial markets in 14 locales can offer opportunities to

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The Monthly Metric: Back-Order Rate When a customer’s shipping request date is missed — turning a backlog order into a back order — the situation becomes more problematic. A high back-order rate

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Robotics Technology Taking Over Materials Handling Increased competition, demand for flexibility and productivity improvement and a “seismic” growth in e-commerce-related fulfillment and

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Dexterity and Lower Cost Setting Collaborative Robots Apart In manufacturing, there are robots. And there are cobots. The latter — collaborative robots — are smaller and more dexterous than

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