FYI

| MCM staff

DID YOU KNOW? * Employees steal $20 billion – $40 billion worth of goods from work every year, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.* About 700,000

full speed ahead

| MCM staff

Superman’s outfit was cool, but it must have cost him a bundle. Besides, do you really need material handlers who can leap over tall buildings with a

Is Your Closet Clean?

| Jeff Kline

It’s a known fact that the bigger your closet, the more space you have for old clothes you haven’t worn in years. The warehouse is the closet of the operations

READY SET GO!

| Ron Hounsell

measuring work doesn’t take split-second timing, but it does require valid standardsLOOKING OVER a warehouse worker’s shoulder and counting how many minutes

short takes

| Rama Ramaswami

Hire top warehouse talent, avoid e-fulfillment bloopers, ward off pesky hackersHeads Count The last thing you want to read is yet another study that talks

When Dinosaurs Fly

| MCM staff

Move over, Jurassic Park. Brick-and-mortar retailers have not only survived the mass extinction of dot-coms but evolved into a new, hybrid species of

short takes

| Rama Ramaswami

Outsourcing takes off; systems integration lags; international expansion picks up the paceThree’s Company What do you do when you have too much to do?

The More Things Change

| Lew Waddey

Historically, the direct-to-customer fulfillment industry has tended to view the outsourcing of fulfillment operations as unacceptable. That attitude

talking heads

| Steve Banker

“What is the top fulfillment concern or challenge that e-merchants face?”It’s integration. What people are trying to do around fulfillment is to get to