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Welcome to A Day at ProMat 2023

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I spent the full day yesterday roaming the floor and meeting with exhibitors. I asked Manhattan about recent examples of customers utilizing the company’s WES functionality. The solution creates optimized batches of work for assignment to associates, develops optimal pick paths, and dynamically prioritizes warehouse tasks.

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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. To be truly optimized, you need to harmonize the travel of both robots and humans. They dynamically travel to the most optimized pick and meet the AMR there.

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Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap

Logistics Viewpoints

Any company shipping physical products today – whether to consumers or to other businesses – needs to meet higher service expectations, including faster order turnaround in the DC. Supply chain and distribution leaders are already adopting new approaches to DC operations and technology to meet the challenges.