Pet supply catalogers groomed for growth

| MCM staff

Sixty-two percent of the nation’s 111 million households include at least one pet, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturing Association. Yet

Care Package

| Bennett Voyles

Unless you ship jewelry or pharmaceuticals, package security probably doesn’t rank too high on your list of worries. Maybe once in a while a packer gets

Fast Forward

| Karen Berman

Top Picks In the market for picking technologies? Chances are you’re looking for advice. Dave Piasecki, principal of Inventory Operations Consulting in

Scaredy Cats Cause Supply Chain Inefficiencies

| Barbara Arnn

Wars, earthquakes, labor disputes, outbreaks of disease, investment bubbles all affect the supply chain. And as with the stock market, so with the supply chain: In many if not most cases, it

Distribution Digest Offers Cool Tips and Wonderful Advice

| Jeff Morris

Distribution Digest recently solicited advice from several industry experts on questions involving Pick Area Redesign, Improving Inventory Accuracy, and WMS Implementation Surprises. They compiled these useful tips from Lawrence Dean Shemesh of OPSdesign Consulting, Vinod Chouhan of Iovate Health Sciences International, and Jeff Mueller of Sedlak.

Ahead of the Pack

| Rama Ramaswami

TIRED OF GIVING your loved one yet another sweater for Christmas? Dread the rack upon rack of look-alike items that await you at the mall? UncommonGoods

Culture Clash

| Margery Weinstein

With nearly 7.8 million Hispanic workers employed in the U.S. not to mention millions more from Asia, Africa, and other overseas locales there’s a good

Out of Order

| MCM staff

Steve Dethlefs, DC ManagerPendleton Woolen MillsPortland, OR Our fashion merchandise is basically perishable, so our planning is tight. We don’t want