On-floor Seminars

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 past two years have disrupted supply chains – causing rapid demand swings, labor and material shortages, and public scrutiny. Businesses have responded with strategic and tactical solutions from automation to adjusted inventory management plans. Join this panel of operations and risk management experts ...

See MODEX's latest and greatest advances presented to you in a short 25 minutes. This will allow you to stay laser focused on your objectives and reasons for attending Modex, and to see the new products and services you might have not have known were available. We will be reviewing the what, why and ...

Agility within the Supply Chain Industry is a hot topic right now. The desire to be able to quickly respond to market changes, supply chain constraints and increased customer expectations are putting pressures on Distribution Networks across the globe. Although the details can become complex, the ability ...

What to consider when adding autonomous vehicles to a facility. From choosing the right of vehicle, to planning the first install, to scaling across a single facility and beyond. Whether you're starting with one facility or rolling out automation across multiple facilities, this session is for you.

Traditional visibility strategies involve the management of data once things have already occurred. Often teams use technologies to look reactively and hypothesize about what could have been done differently to prevent disruption, delays, and profit loss that has already occurred. But the reality of ...

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.

As the world begins to emerge from the pandemic and starts to return to a sense of normalcy, some learnings will continue. An example of that is employee’s desire to have an increased level of cleanliness in the workplace. Door handles, faucets, and other high-touch surfaces will continue to require ...

MHI's newest Industry Group is called SLAM (Scan, Label, Apply, Manifest). Often the last steps in the fulfillment process can make or break your operations. Members of SLAM will present lessons learned and best practices when implementing the technologies and solutions that take your orders from the ...

As material handling continues to move towards autonomous robots and vehicles, there is still a need to interface these solutions with conveyor systems. Automated and autonomous vehicles are capable of being mobile conveyors to bridge the gap between fixed infrastructure and the flexible needs of the ...

The number of robots and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) available in the marketplace are growing every day. This session will focus on how organizations can save labor and space while improving their customer service levels. We'll be reviewing a wide variety of order fulfillment, goods to person, sortation ...

With the exponential increase in customer demands, technological advancements and fierce competition, distribution and fulfillment centers are under heightened pressure to speed up order fulfillment and optimize their operations. Combined with an extremely tight labor market, many organizations have ...

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 ...

In March 2020, the MHI Solutions Community, its clients and prospects gathered in Atlanta to discuss challenges, opportunities and solutions for supply chain performance improvement. Already in the air and near simultaneously, COVID-19 then sprang its devastating, disruptive and regrettably too often ...

The labor shortage isn’t a new issue for supply chain operations, but the effort to attract and retain, both leadership and hourly positions has become increasingly challenging since the pandemic. This session aims to address the workforce challenges holistically and focus on how to process digitization, ...