DHL Opens Warehouse in India
Joining the ranks of Amazon, DHL Supply Chain announced that it has opened a warehouse in Luhari, India to help meet the growing demand from the consumer, retail, and automotive sectors.
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Carlyle Group Acquires Diversey Japan From Sealed Air
Sealed Air Corp. announced that it has entered into an agreement with private equity firm The Carlyle Group to acquire Diversey G.K. (Diversey Japan) for about $377 million, according to an Oct. 30 press release.
Tips for Packaging Optimization
Multichannel merchants can never hear enough tips about how to better package their nproducts for shipping. Learn how to improve your packaging optimization.
Green Packaging Is Here To Stay
People used to think the phrase
THE BOX STEP
Have you mastered the box step? Not the pattern dancers practice when learning to waltz, the catalog box dance. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, the box dance is what your customers do
Packing It In
It’s not always easy to find innovation in packing materials. After all, how many times can you reinvent the packing peanut or improve upon plastic air-pillow
DMA: Proper Packaging Protects Bottom Line, Environment
The Direct Marketing Association is pushing an eco-friendly initiative, and operations folks can help. Environmentally sound order fulfillment minimizes the amount of packaging materials
Fulfilling Urban’s legend
As director of distribution, Ken McKinney is responsible for all distribution, fulfillment, and transportation functions for Philadelphia-based Urban
Analyzing packaging costs
Choosing cost-efficient packaging is a complicated process that involves consideration of far more than just the cost of the materials alone. Labor, assembly,
PEANUTS RULE?
Five years ago Emory University physics professor Sidney Perkowitz estimated in his book Universal Foam that each year enough packing peanuts are manufactured