On-floor Seminars

Robots have gotten a bad rap. While many robots got stuck in pilot purgatory, today’s ultramodern AI-powered robots see, reason and interact with their environment. These smart robots use massive neural networks to achieve unprecedented speed, precision and accuracy. Discover how Parfums Christian Dior, ...

Minimizing risk is at the core of all decision-making when it comes to moving freight – how do you know if you’ve made the right call and selected the right carrier? Using the traditional approach, the answer won’t become evident until after the deal is done and the freight delivered. Oftentimes, bias ...

Industrywide polls conducted over the last few years all consistently point to labor and space constraints as the top 2 challenges facing manufacturing, light industrial, and warehousing operations. And that is no surprise, we are hearing of the labor crisis and supply chain challenges on a daily basis. ...

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. ...

Disruption and growing customer expectations require strengthened omnichannel and ecommerce capabilities with reduced labor costs. Logistics providers must build resilience and strengthen operations with innovative technologies to meet customer demand and enable flexible and scalable processes. In ...

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 ...

You can't improve what you don't measure. That's why intelligent warehouse solutions are an integral part of the optimization process. Move your organization forward with advanced technologies connected with scalable, flexible, and intelligent warehouse solutions. This includes asset and maintenance ...

Modern demands on supply chain organizations have exceeded the ability of traditional, portfolio-based supply chain solutions, which create artificial boundaries between distribution and transportation capabilities and limit productivity and adaptability. Join Manhattan's Kristin Kay to hear about ...

Look around at MODEX and you’ll see robotic solutions at every turn. But how do you know which, if any of them, is right for your business? Is an AMR supported goods-to-person solution the one? Or is an automated put wall what you need? And what about software? How and where do you begin the process ...

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 ...

Food and consumer goods supply chains have faced extensive challenges in recent times, adapting to changing consumer behavior, government policies, economic conditions and supply chain resource challenges. COVID-19, the trigger for many of these challenges, asked new questions of retail grocery supply ...

The pandemic-induced e-commerce boom has accelerated the rate of change in buying behaviors, and that change has reverberated throughout the supply chain, placing a new series of demands on distribution operations. This session will address this period of flux by providing actionable takeaways that explore ...

The seminar will provide an overview of the inbound and outbound process streamlining, advanced work optimization and automation required to efficiently run high volume/velocity e-commerce fulfillment operations.

With the many processes happening simultaneously in fulfillment warehouses, it's a challenge to time them so that resources are 100% productive and utilized. Even if your workflows are perfectly planned so that goods continuously flow through the warehouse, disruptions inevitably occur - a worker leaves ...

Adding new productivity-boosting technology like robots is appealing these days as productivity demands and labor challenges abound. But that new tech often requires a lengthy and costly WMS or ERP upgrade, especially if your systems have been tailored to your unique operations. Almasons makes adding ...