Customize Dashboards for Individual Needs

| Sam Flanders

You should create multiple “dashboards” in your facility, signs or screens each customized with metrics and information for a particular audience. Senior management will be most interested in getting a view of how the entire facility is doing.

Nordstrom To Expand Cedar Rapids DC

| MCM staff

Seattle-based cataloger/retailer Nordstrom said on Aug. 29, it plans to expand its Cedar Rapids, IA-based fulfillment and contact centers. The expansion will coincide with the company’s updating of its direct business’ inventory systems.

IT MAINTENANCE checklist

| Mark Del Franco

By now everyone knows the importance of performing routine checks of the smoke alarms in his home twice a year. So too you should be conducting periodic

Cruise through Customs

| MCM staff

Merchants that want to move imports through the supply chain more quickly while improving the security of their loads are looking to the U.S. Customs’

TIDBITS

| MCM staff

How Calyx & Corolla packs ’em in When shipping product such as plants, packaging is crucial. That’s why flowers merchant Calyx & Corolla more than a year

Maintaining operations

| MCM staff

As vice president of distribution for maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) distributor Interline Brands, Jim Spahn heads up operations for the company’s

Keeping vendors compliant

| Curt Barry

How important is vendor compliance? Imagine the following scenario: An apparel retailer’s shipment of dresses for a catalog drop arrives late; in the