On-floor Seminars

Rapid growth led MJ Holding, the largest North American distributor of trading cards, to determine it was time to combine multiple inventory locations into a new warehouse that could accommodate all on-hand inventory. The company originally planned to copy their current facility layout and picking processes ...

A new generation of intelligent robots is taking over warehouses. As eCommerce demand continues to skyrocket and labor shortages intensify, AI-powered pick-and-place robots have become a mission-critical part of today’s most competitive fulfillment operations. In this session, participate in a 15-minute ...

Warehouses are bustling with the constant movement of people, merchandise, and equipment, creating the perfect environment for incidents to occur. How do you inspect, operate and maintain your pallet racks to keep your people and inventory safe and costs down? Charles Carbonneau (Ph.D.), head of an ...

Warehouses are bustling with the constant movement of people, merchandise, and equipment, creating the perfect environment for incidents to occur. How do you inspect, operate and maintain your pallet racks to keep your people and inventory safe and costs down? Charles Carbonneau (Ph.D.), head of an ...

Obtain new insight about the strategy of locating e-commerce order fulfillment closer to the customer to support: curbside and home delivery. Find out how retailers and B2B distributors are leveraging their existing brick and mortar assets and urban distribution hubs for order fulfillment by deploying ...

What are the operational advantages of discrete order picking and batch order picking? When should you deploy one method over the other? This presentation will describe the specific applications where retailers, wholesalers and B2B fulfillment operations could utilize a discrete order picking method ...

Warehouse labor is expensive to find and hard to keep. With customers demanding an easy, flawless omnichannel fulfillment experience, how do you protect your commitments and grow your business—when the future of your CX is in the hands of people who may or may not be there from one day to the next? In ...

The pandemic sent retail distribution into a new universe that we are unlikely to return from. At the same time, the pandemic allowed distribution employees and temporary workers to reevaluating their expectations of employment. This session will look at the traditional labor model and challenge it. ...

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 ...

The technologies used to power your lift truck fleet are more detailed and customized than ever before. The key to customization and success is driven by the main components of energy storage – batteries and chargers. Paired with cutting edge data and data management it results in the highest level ...

Today, automated guided vehicles, laser-guided vehicles, and self-driven forklifts represent the most flexible, reliable, and advanced technology to integrate all the supply chain operations. Since AGVs and LGVs are constantly in motion, operating unmanned over large areas in manufacturing and distribution, ...

With an array of power choices available for today’s industrial fleets – from traditional lead acid batteries to advanced chemistries including Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) and Lithium-ion (Li-ion) – it can be challenging for warehouse managers to determine the solution that’s best for their unique fleet. ...

With supply chains in flux and ecommerce orders surging, automation is increasingly being leveraged to reduce labor dependencies while also improving distribution efficiencies, fulfillment timeframes, customer service, cost savings and resilience. However, determining the right application for warehouse ...

Need to optimize omnichannel order orchestration and fulfillment, customer service and order profitability? An omnichannel order management system (OMS) is required. OMS is the only solution to drive both top and bottom line revenue, as well as omnichannel agility and customer service. In this session, ...

In today’s market, carriers have all of the leverage and are pushing rate increases, peak surcharges and capacity limitations on shippers of all sizes. However, a well-executed freight audit and payment (FAP) process will give shippers more control over the freight payables process, improve visibility ...