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Travel Time is the Key to Lowering Labor Costs in Your Distribution Center

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There’s a huge opportunity for travel time savings in most companies’ distribution operations. Similarly, the ideal travel path calculation is not a simple measure of distance, but must also factor in variables like the cost (in time) of turning around a cart or jack, directional aisle restrictions, and zone sequencing.

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Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap

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Distribution is no longer a backwater of the economy, due in large part to the upheavals brought on by ecommerce. But there is a technology gap between gleaming new automated facilities and tens of thousands of existing warehouses and distribution centers that pre-date the warehouse building boom of the past 5-10 years.

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5 Myths of Making Robots Work with People

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In most cases, a WMS follows basic logic and location sequence pick paths in allocating work. But it is not looking at batch and path optimization without robots.

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Four Truths About DC Robots, Jobs, And Warehouse Execution

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At most, robots will slow the growth in hiring in warehouses and distribution centers. Kiva robots didn’t eliminate people from handling products, but they have helped Amazon rapidly grow its distribution network and add tens of thousands of new DC workers.