On-floor Seminars

The labor crisis isn’t going away, and warehouses are getting hit the hardest. It’s time to try something new. Find out how businesses like Goodwill used automation to reallocate and level up their workforce, increasing job satisfaction and overall efficiency.

This seminar will communicate how the growth of e-commerce (including the acceleration of that growth triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic and the aftermath) has affected supply chain networks (facility locations and mission), facility design for both major hubs and last mile e-commerce facilities and ...

Are you considering integrating a new automated system into your network? Approaching facility construction, infrastructure upgrades, and automation integration can be a daunting task. The coordination required and the complexity of highly automated projects can lead to costly errors and schedule delays ...

The recent influx of investment and technology to the supply chain space has been a boon for productivity. However, as a practitioner, trying to understand which technologies can have the biggest impact often involves wading through a buzzword soup. After you decide to invest in automation solutions, ...

Running a modern distribution facility with emphasis on speed, agility, and automation requires cutting-edge technology. In the world of micro-fulfillment centers, this is even more important as these operations are driven by one main objective – deliver customers’ orders accurately and in less than ...

For robots and machines to take over more and more human tasks they first need to perceive the world around them as seamlessly as humans do. They must have vision systems allowing them to discern obstacles, objects, and spaces under variable circumstances like light, temperature, and topology. Time-of-Flight ...

Increasing consumer expectations around same day, next day and two-day delivery are forcing companies to fine-tune their distribution centers (DCs) to accommodate shorter fulfillment timeframes while maintaining a high quality of service. Reviewing and optimizing your DC is an investment that leads to ...

You know you need to automate your operations to keep up, but how do you get management to buy into automation? Comparing the actual costs of your existing operation to the impact of automation can help persuade management it’s time for a change. In this seminar, we will review an online project ...

Warehouses have been faced with more challenges than they could imagine in the past few years, forcing companies to make difficult decisions about their supply chain technology. Warehouse automation technology and Software as a Service (SaaS) amongst other key innovations in the WMS, TMS and LMS landscape ...

Join OTTO Motors’ CEO, Matthew Rendall, for a deep dive into their customer deployments. Matt will be joined by leaders from The Hershey Company, Berry Global, and Honeywell who will discuss the following topics: - Their primary business reasons for selecting autonomous mobile robots - How their automation ...

The safe use of a storage rack system is key to the productivity of a warehouse. We discuss the resources available from the Rack Manufacturers Institute that can be used to design and implement a safe rack system. We discuss the inspections necessary in maintaining a safe rack system. We discuss how ...

As Supply Chain and Logistics companies look to automate and digitalize their warehouses and distribution hub centers, the need for a high-performance, reliable, and secure wireless network becomes an essential part of their connectivity infrastructure. While Wi-Fi has been the default wireless network ...

It is no secret that tech startups have thrived during the pandemic-induced supply chain crisis. We’ve seen unprecedented growth, in both funding and acquisitions, over the last few years as investors and supply chain companies turn to technology to help solve the crisis. Join us for a discussion about ...

Technology is part of our everyday lives and new trends are constantly emerging. We are experiencing connections between hardware and software to gain visibility and improve operations from dock to stock and back. Join Jerome Dubois and Padhu Raman, Co-Founder and CPO of Verte to learn more about how ...

The material handling industry is booming, and new technologies are constantly being introduced to advance distribution capabilities. Increased demand and a diminishing labor pool have led to major technological innovations in our industry. Now, more than ever, we have an evolving set of tools that promise ...