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Best Practices in Receiving

| Sam Flanders

Receiving is an often-overlooked process in the distribution center. It is common for DC managers to focus on the picking and packing functions instead. Still, if receiving isn’t done efficiently and accurately, it can have a direct and dramatic impact on your order selection efficiency. Product that is sitting on the dock or on a pallet in a remote corner of the warehouse is not available for picking. The result could be shortages or the need for excess labor to fill the requirement.

Food Cataloger MacKenzie Limited Sold

| Jim Tierney

Baltimore-based gourmet food cataloger Mackenzie Limited was sold this week to another Baltimore company, Astral Foods.

Cramped Space a Problem in the DC?

| Sam Flanders

The effect of growth on the distribution center can be negative. Growth can decrease your performance and increase your errors. Space problems can occur so gradually that you may not even be aware of them. The easiest answer to a space crunch is to get more, but this may not always be the wisest decision. There is often a tradeoff between space and labor and adding space can actually increase your labor costs. Fortunately, there are some strategies can improve both space and labor! Here are a few low cost solutions as well as some higher tech equipment and system based options.

E-commerce systems update

| Ernie Schell

When it comes to managing e-commerce, multichannel merchants have a wide variety of solutions to choose from. Options range from stand-alone e-commerce

Trimming Your Transportation Costs

| Mark Del Franco

Along with death and taxes, multichannel merchants can count on rising transportation costs. The chief culprit for increasing costs is fuel, which affects

Integrating Core Competencies

| Jack Schmid

Smart multichannel merchants are using all their core competencies across all selling channels including stores, Websites, and catalogs and they’re finding

TIDBITS

| MCM staff

Sigma Micro to acquire Quark Commerce Indianapolis-based software provider Sigma Micro agreed to acquire the intellectual property of Quark Commerce software

MATCH GAME the packaging version

| Bennett Voyles

Matching a product with a box should be a simple task. After all, people have been sending things in corrugated cardboard for 116 years, and the entire

Incentive Pay in the Warehouse, Part II

| MCM staff

Incentive programs for the warehouse, implemented in a variety of ways, have resulted in striking gains in productivity. These programs have also resulted in other benefits such as increased employee satisfaction.

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