TIDBITS

| MCM staff

Hanesbrands closing DCs Apparel manufacturer/marketer Hanesbrands, whose catalogs include Champion and One Hanes Place, wasted little time following through

Winterthur, NWF join BlueSky

| Jim Tierney

BlueSky Brands, parent company of gifts catalogs The Paragon and Bits and Pieces, in November signed licensing agreements to manage the catalog and Internet merchandising businesses for a pair of not-for-profit groups: Wintherthur Museum & Country Estate and the National Wildlife Federation (NWF).

Hit the skids and reorganize your pallets

| Sam Flanders

Are you running out of space to store pallets? Do you have peak times when you simply don’t have a place to put all your skids? If so, consider these

Close to home

| MCM staff

Fewer and fewer shippers are overlooking the regional carriers, and the number of such companies is growing as a result.

back word

| MCM staff

Avon deal takes Jeter from pinstripes to perfume The New York Yankees may have stunk up the baseball field in October when they were knocked out of the

The Skinny on Small-Item Sorters

| Sam Flanders

A small item sorter can dramatically increase your pick rates by allowing you to select requirements for many orders all at the same time.

Three Solutions to Help You Think Vertically

| Sam Flanders

If your warehouse is out of space for your smaller items, such as parts, vendor boxes, and totes, here are three relatively inexpensive vertical storage solutions.

Buy Smart and Avoid Excess Inventory

| Dan Kaplan

Many companies are surprised when they find excess stock of fast moving items during a physical inventory. After getting over the initial surprise, they shrug their shoulders and say:

The Ins and Outs of World-Class Order Selection

| Sam Flanders

You don’t always have to spend a lot of money on a new piece of automaton or software to save significantly in your order selection operation. In fact, many costly systems rely on one or more of the very same process changes we’ll discuss here. By deploying one or more of these ideas, you can sometimes dramatically increase your labor efficiency (by 50% or more) and do it without any substantial risk or expense.