THE SUPPLY CHAIN BLOG
Warehouse Automation: Where to Start?
In the days of the pandemic (and even pre-pandemic), the trends and challenges facing the warehouse industry are clear: difficulty finding labor. As such, exploring automation for warehouses has never made more sense. However, it is a daunting task to understand and explore how to start. Below, we explore basic options to explore warehouse automation.
5 Supply Chain Trends for 2021
This past year has created many new challenges for everyone, causing consumers and companies to adapt. We expect some of the supply chain changes to be temporary but that many of them will have a lasting impact on the supply chain industry going forward. Below, we discuss some of the trends that we expect to see in 2021.
Managing the Q4 Peak: Considerations and Recommendations for your Supply Chain
In a time that has seen UPS impose shipping restrictions on major retailers to maintain performance (not to mention covid-19 vaccine distribution), it is all the more important to take preparatory measures to build flexibility and buffers into supply chains. Below, we discuss considerations for your network, transportation, and warehousing segments of your supply chain.
How to Modernize Your Warehouse/Distribution Center: Part 2
In Part 2 of our process to modernize warehouses, we discuss the systems and automated confirmations necessary to eliminate human error and increase efficiency.
How to Modernize your Warehouse/Distribution Operation, Part 1
For companies to stay successful over a long period of time, they must constantly be improving and changing with the times. This is especially true in warehousing and distribution. One of our core competencies at Establish is helping our clients logically and cost-effectively modernize and improve their warehouses and distribution centers. Over the next few weeks, we will be walking you through many of the steps necessary to modernize warehouses, from the most basic operation to a fully automated solution and everywhere in between. We start with two of the most important: Inventory Locations and Product Labeling.
Blockchain in Logistics: How it Started and How It's Going
Blockchain’s origin is rooted in the release of the whitepaper written under the name Satoshi Nakamoto explaining the foundation of what we know as today, Bitcoin. Bitcoin offered an avenue to worry-free digital transactions due to transparency and decentralization of the data. This ensured that information could not be altered and prompted the crypto-currency boom. The core-principles of blockchain and success of Bitcoin started a wave of curiosity into other possible applications, thus the development of the technology began to arise. One of these applications was supply chain.
Supply Chain Network Optimization – How to Do it Right
The time is right to re-align your Supply Chain Strategy, for many reasons including:
Logistics and fulfillment are the new storefronts and sales tools
The explosion of direct-to-consumer business forces all companies to have an omnichannel strategy.
The sourcing landscape is rapidly changing with more near-sourcing and risk minimizing.
Sustainability awareness is increasingly unavoidable - and transportation is a big piece.
Supply Chain Management Post-Covid-19 – Regional Supply Chains
Regional supply chains, near-shoring manufacturing, inventory management, warehousing as a market tool: oldies but goodies are making comebacks in the new, post Covid-19 world.