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

247 Customs Broker

There’s a huge opportunity for travel time savings in most companies’ distribution operations. Our two-pronged approach is incorporated in our new Dynamic Work Optimization (DWO) module, a tool within Lucas Engage. Furthermore, this travel path must be used to calculate the optimized batch in the first place.

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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.