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Preparing to Automate: How to Evaluate Your Operations Prior to Implementing an AS/RS

Before investing in new infrastructure, you must first take a step back.

Preparing to Automate: How to Evaluate Your Operations Prior to Implementing an AS/RS

Five Strategies for Optimizing Warehouse Operations With Automation

No. 1: Retrofit your facility with a high-density automated storage and retrieval system.

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How a Big Grocery Supply Chain Took Control During the Pandemic

In the battle to keep essential products flowing to store shelves during the coronavirus pandemic, Retail Business Services has been on the front line.

A worker places groceries from an online order into a Peapod delivery bin at a Stop & Shop supermarket. Photo: Bloomberg.

Surviving and Thriving Amid Record Disruption

Challenge: A customer operating on BluJay’s transportation management system experienced volume increases peaking weekly at 50% year-over-year, driven by COVID-19 and shifts in consumer demand. This created an immediate need to scale carrier procurement efforts to support increased load volumes, while keeping costs in line and meeting customer service expectations.

Three Ways to Reinvent Your Business Post-COVID-19

As businesses continue to plunge into uncertainty, here are three strategies to consider.

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Starbucks Customers, Farmers Can Now Trace Their Coffee With Blockchain

Starbucks fans can now trace their coffee. And so can farmers, who will know for the first time where their beans end up.

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Justifying the Cost of Your Automation Project

Today's automated systems can operate 25 years or longer. These are the primary factors to consider.

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How to Optimize a Direct-to-Consumer Supply Chain

With storefronts under siege, strengthening direct-to-consumer channels has never been more important for retailers and manufacturers.

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Unilever Uses Phones to Track Sustainable Palm Oil

Unilever is planning to use new geo-location technology to make its palm oil supply chains more transparent and tackle a farm-to-table traceability problem that has plagued the industry for decades.

Source: Bloomberg

Fixing COVID-19’s Food Disaster Could Also Slash Climate Emissions

The pandemic has cut greenhouse gases in some key ways, as people are flying and driving less. But food waste accounts for one reason why the drops likely won’t fall as low as hoped.

Photo: Bloomberg

Beirut Explosion Destroys Tons of Lebanon’s Food Stocks

The huge explosion in Lebanon’s capital of Beirut tore through major grain silos, stoking fears of shortages in a nation that imports nearly all its food and is already reeling from economic crisis.

An Aug. 4 explosion tore through the Port of Beirut. Photo: Bloomberg.

For These Workers, Getting Covid Means Getting Fired

As coronavirus cases explode at U.S. farms and food factories, the foreign migrants who pick fruit, clean seafood and sort vegetables are getting trapped in tightly packed bunkhouses where illness spreads like wildfire.

A farm worker harvests asparagus. Photo: Bloomberg.

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