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Analyst insight: As online shoppers demand greater convenience, retailers are seeking new and inventive ways to meet their busy schedules. Micro-fulfillment centers (MFCs) are rapidly gaining momentum as a low-investment, low-operating-cost solution to provide fast, local deliveries. There’s no shortage of automated solutions coming to market that promise unlimited order fulfillment capacity. Today’s automated, small-format
Title: Executive director, MHI Solutions Community; senior director of SCE Solutions, Tecsys Location: Charlotte, N.C., and Montreal Experience: More than 20 years in the supply chain software business. Duties: The MHI Solutions Community provides a venue where materials handling solution providers and users can work collaboratively. Modern: Tell us a little about the MHI Solutions
Increased order volumes, customer requirements, and a shrinking labor force are putting significant pressure on fulfillment centers to ship more orders at an ever-increasing pace. Traditional, labor-intensive, cart-based picking are unable to keep pace. To meet these demands, many are adding collaborative, autonomous mobile robots to their fulfillment warehouses to increase productivity of their current
Impinj, Inc., a provider of RAIN RFID solutions, recently introduced the Impinj R700 reader. Designed for RAIN deployments, the Impinj R700 reader delivers industry-leading performance with high receive sensitivity, fast network connectivity and powerful edge processing for next-generation IoT solutions. “Leading enterprises are connecting every thing to the IoT,” said Chris Diorio, Impinj CEO. “We designed
