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10 steps to improve operational efficiency
Companies spend millions of dollars annually to design, build and operate distribution centers, warehouses and fulfillment operations. These operations will experience ongoing business changes that impact their customers and their financial bottom line. The challenge is to identify and address change indicators before the operation becomes inefficient or completely out of control. This seminar will provide 10 important steps operations can take to identify change indicators and ensure operational efficiency today and in the future.
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An automation case study: How automatic guided carts helped Macy's improve its warehouse operations
Macy's Distribution Center in City of Industry, California wanted to improve how products were moved in its 750,000 square foot warehouse. With its old system, six associates moved carts loaded with furniture manually to and from the dock doors. Macy's decided to automate this process by implementing an automatic guided cart system. Find out how the system works, why the company chose automatic guided carts, and how the vehicles are helping the company achieve its LEAN warehousing goals and improve its bottom line.
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Bridging the gap between legacy and best-of breed WMS
There are hundreds of legacy or home-grown WMS packages developed over years of fine-tuning that are hard for companies to unplug. These systems have been tailored to support specific business practices and each is very unique. But, are these legacy WMS providing the levels of performance that a best-of-breed WMS offers? In this session, discover what off-the-shelf WMS packages now provide and how your legacy system might be adapted to come closer to the mark - or, alternatively, if it's time to bite the bullet and make the switch.
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DC automation using AGVs
Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are not just for the factory anymore. New AGV System installations in warehouses and distribution centers are now outpacing those traditional manufacturing plant applications. This seminar will outline the new applications in warehouses and distribution centers where AGVs are now being used. It will highlight the benefits and return on investment that an AGV system can deliver.
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Employing product slotting strategies and managing order release sequence to optimize order fulfillment picking systems
PROBLEM/SOLUTION presentation that summarizes how Order fulfillment Picking Operations can become less efficient due to PROBLEMS in product slotting ineffiencies and the way orders are sequenced and then released into the Picking Zones. SOLUTIONS are graphically demonstrated showing how developing and maintaining a pro-active product slotting strategy is the best way to increase operator and system picking rates. Pre-processing your orders and creating an order release sequence based on your picking systems unique requirements is another way to reduce picking bottlenecks and maximize overall picking activities.
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It’s time to automate – how much is right for you?
Your business is coming back but future productivity will take a hit if you don’t increase capacity and throughput. That’s the sweet spot for automated material handling. Hear how your company’s operations profile and key performance indicators can write your ticket to ROI success with the right level of automation.
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Lean 2.0: The next generation in lean
This session will discuss the real opportunities to "LEAN" out the inefficiencies in a day to day operation by improving and creating processes when cost effective automation has been implemented. LEANing of processes through optimized material storage and flow will allow companies to reduce labor costs through increased efficiencies, decrease errors in the supply chain, reduce injuries, have a tighter inventory control and yes, we can still save space. In today's global competition, can you really afford not to take advantage of something so simple?
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Leveraging metrics to drive warehouse performance improvement
Continued refinement of warehouse metrics offers a wide variety of options for fine-tuning performance. The question is: "Which ones will best fit your environment and how do you use them to set targets, monitor results, meet service goals and contain costs? How do you assure a proper balance between measures to avoid negatively impacting performance in one area by overemphasizing another? How can metrics be used to justify investment in people, equipment & systems while simulaneously building employee support, commitment & morale.
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Leveraging technology for best-practices LSP/3PL performance
For 3PL providers, supply chain agility is a necessity when trying to address diverse customer needs. Learn what to look for in modern supply chain technology which can help you incorporate new service offerings and respond to new market requirements quickly and easily, while keeping IT costs low.
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Metrics that matter for high performance order fulfillment
Continuous improvement of order fulfillment performance is critical to any fulfillment operation. This seminar will discuss the most important metrics to measure and manage order fulfillment operations and provide simple methods and techniques to improve your operation’s performance based on these metrics.
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Modern design trends for direct to consumer fulfillment
A better understanding of custom equipment applications and design, providing a competitive advantage to industry leaders of direct to consumer businesses.
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Single SKU to "store ready" pallets: Exploring the next generation of case picking
The presentation will review the current trends in system directed case picking and the evolution to a higher level of automation to support the global customer's requirement for lower costs, higher accuracy and "store ready" orders.
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Order fulfillment systems: Finding the right configuration for your application
Your order fulfillment system is the centerpiece of your operation. Many variables need consideration: growing number of SKUs, system capacity, slow moving items, fast moving items, order frequency, velocity, accuracy, as well as labor issues. This presentation will discuss the various order fulfillment configurations, from low to high volume and from non-mechanized to fully automated. Case studies are included that illustrate the business benefits realized when the most appropriate order fulfillment solution is implemented.
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Small-scale automation - storage & retrieval systems
The image most often associated with Automated Storage & Retrieval Systems (AS/RS) is a tall rack-supported building storing thousands of pallets. While this is a common application, many companies achieve high rates of return for small unit load or mini load AS/RS projects. Small AS/RS are especially popular in Japan, where space is at a premium and small companies are comfortable with automation. We will share success stories of real end-users using AS/RS for spare part storage, small parts picking, manufacturing buffer (for temporary storage), load sequencing, and other tasks.
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The goods-to-person method of efficient order fulfillment
Goods to Person is a method of order fulfillment that is utilized more often in today's modern warehouses and distribution centers. The benefits of using this configuration will be presented along with a discussion of the ergonomic aspects including universal access. In addition, the presentation will provide a description of applications where it could be implemented along with case study examples.
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Trends in sustainability for logistics operations
Sustainability is increasingly accepted as an integral part of corporate policy. Following an overview of key strategic issues in sustainability this session will focus on cost effective supply chain initiatives from distribution center design to material handling and transportation equipment.
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What is the right distribution technology for retail operations
In the Retail/E-tail distribution industry, there are many types of technology that can do wonderful things for your operations. Sometimes, however, getting caught up in the latest "solution" causes us to lose sight of what should be the main goal...to distribute goods quickly and efficiently to your stores and to direct to consumers in order to meet the business expectations. What technology is right for me? There are no simple answers because it is not just about the technology but about the business, process and people that will make the technology work. In this session, we will explore some of the technologies/methodologies and why they may make sense for your operation.
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