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Welcome to A Day at ProMat 2023

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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. This flexibility and dynamic decision-making are the critical factors that set true orchestration and optimization apart.

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Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap

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These new technologies are helping operations and engineering teams move beyond continuous improvement to continuous warehouse optimization. The most high-profile example of this is the growing adoption of autonomous mobile robotics (so-called AMRs) and modular micro-fulfillment systems. Inventory and Labor Planning.

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

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For example, many Tier One WMS systems offer a voice picking add-on to make your pickers hands- and eyes-free, which means they’ll spend less time wielding a scanner or looking at a screen. For example, batching orders together intelligently means more than just putting together orders that fall within the same zones.