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

247 Customs Broker

The need to reduce picking time is the driving force behind many DCs’ investments in WMS upgrades, voice-directed picking , and other solutions that can reduce the time your pickers spend at the pick face. These time savings at the pick face are very real and very attractive. May 23, 2018 ·. By Lucas Systems.

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Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap

Logistics Viewpoints

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.