Distributor’s Warehouse Guide: New Technologies and Avoiding Customer-hurting Problems

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Mar 9, 2018

A new publication, The Distributor’s Warehouse Guide To New Technologies and Avoiding Customer-Hurting Problems, helps distributors determine which new technologies to investigate, and how to increase warehouse accuracy/productivity. It describes 9 new and enhanced warehouse technologies, and 14 ways for preventing warehouse mistakes and increasing efficiency right now.

While technology creates opportunities, there are costs and risks, so the guide explains the pros and cons of each of these new technologies. The guide was written by Dick Friedman, a 30-year distribution industry veteran and certified management consultant who does not sell warehouse technology or software. Dick Friedman helps distributors determine the true costs of and achievable savings from implementing technologies considered, and helps prevent warehouse mistakes while increasing productivity — even where bar code scanning was not helping enough.

The nine new/enhanced warehouse technologies include:

• radio frequency identification (RFID)
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• automated guided vehicles (AGV)
• automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS)
• single-arm robots
• mobile robots
• drones
• image-based bar code readers
• virtual reality or augmented reality

Some of these technologies may be able to reduce reliance on not-so-qualified and scarce-to-find warehouse workers, increase warehouse accuracy and/or productivity, and reduce injuries.

Obtain a free copy by clicking the “Other Contact Info” tab at www.genbuscon.com.

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