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Digital logistics all dressed up
Austin (Texas, US)Revelry, an e-commerce retailer specializing in bridesmaid dresses, will digitize its warehouse in Austin, Texas, with Easy WMS. The Marketplaces & Ecommerce Platforms Integration module will connect Easy WMS with BigCommerce, the platform Revelry uses to market its dresses online.
Multi-location inventory management: software for managing multiple warehouses
Multi-location inventory management refers to businesses that store their products in more than one warehouse and use software to organize them.
Normagrup: AS/RS for emergency lighting
Asturias, SpainNormagrup, a leading Spanish company in the emergency lighting market, has added on to its production plant in Asturias, Spain, with an AS/RS for boxes. Managed by the Easy WMS warehouse management system from Interlake Mecalux, this AS/RS houses all the components used to manufacture Normagrup's products.
Zone picking: sectioning off the warehouse for efficient order prep
Zone picking consists of dividing the warehouse into different areas based on multiple criteria, including SKU type and product demand level, among others.
Hacienda La Albuera: automated buffer at different temperatures
Extremadura, SpainAgricultural company Hacienda La Albuera has built a clad-rack cold-storage warehouse to store its freshly harvested fruit and vegetables. The warehouse, with a capacity for 5,800 containers, serves as a storage buffer and is automatically connected to the calibration and packaging area.
Sustainable logistics for e-commerce: eco-friendly solutions
Sustainable logistics consists of reducing the environmental impact of the supply chain through innovation and technology.
Cash cycle: turning inventory into cash
The cash cycle is a logistics and economic metric that measures the days it takes a company to convert its stock into cash flows resulting from sales.
Push and pull system applied to manufacturing logistics
Push and pull are production systems that organize manufacturing according to demand. The adoption of one strategy or the other directly impacts the manufacturer's supply chain.
Bonded warehouse: your ally for import/export management
A bonded warehouse is a facility that stores goods from a foreign country that are controlled by the customs authorities for an unlimited time.
Advance shipping notice (ASN/EDI 856) speeds up goods receipts
Advance shipping notice is an electronic document sent automatically by the supplier to the receiver of the goods. It includes various specifications relating to the shipment.
Quick commerce (q-commerce): online order deliveries in under an hour
Quick commerce (q-commerce) is an evolution of e-commerce geared towards fast customer satisfaction and convenience, which increases the demands on companies' logistics operations.
Automated storage: speed and accuracy in the warehouse
Automated storage comprises solutions used to store all kinds of goods with the help of handling equipment such as stacker cranes or conveyors.
Semi-automated warehouse: technology and the human factor combined
Semi-automated warehouse: this type of facility combines the efficiency and productivity brought by automation with a certain degree of human intervention.
Mecalux placed in Gartner global report for Warehouse Management Systems
Easy WMS, the warehouse management system from the Mecalux group, has been included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems. This report provides guidance to executives and supply chain leaders on the current state of the WMS market.
Logistics automation: the road to maximum efficiency
Logistics automation: equipping a warehouse with automated storage and transportation systems ensures maximum efficiency, reducing operating costs and eliminating errors stemming from manual intervention.
Supply chain sustainability to minimize environmental impact
A sustainable supply chain ensures that products that satisfy its customers are supplied in a socially responsible way and without putting the environment at risk.
Just-in-case logistics: the alternative to JIT
Just-in-case logistics: the JIC production and inventory strategy facilitates management in the event of supply chain disruptions. JIC is known as a push production system, where manufacturing costs are lower due to large-scale production.
Warehouse PPE: what personal protective equipment to use
Warehouse PPE — such as gloves, safety glasses, helmets, and reflective clothing — protects operators from any possible risk that might occur during their workday.
Time for urban logistics
Urban logistics encompasses all movements relating to the supply and distribution of goods in cities to ensure business activity.
Motos Bordoy digitises its supply chain
Barcelona, SpainMotos Bordoy, a popular motorbike shop in Barcelona, Spain, has digitized its supply chain with the Easy WMS warehouse management system from Interlake Mecalux. This WMS controls operations in Motos Bordoy's two facilities (one for bikes, the other for spare parts) and the stock in its two shops in Barcelona.
Express service with latest-generation software
FranceExpress road transportation company UTE has implemented the Easy WMS warehouse management system in its facility in France. Easy WMS has been installed in cloud mode to optimize all warehouse operations and control the status of UTE's stock.
3 examples of inventory in a warehouse
Inventory examples: we show you three ways to take inventory in the warehouse: manually, with the help of a warehouse management system, and in a fully automated smart warehouse.
Kiwi Greensun: the perfect degree of ripeness for a cold storage warehouse
PortugalKiwi Greensun, the Iberian Peninsula's largest kiwi producer, has built an automated rack-supported warehouse in Salvador de Briteiros, Portugal. Managed by Easy WMS from Interlake Mecalux, the installation runs at refrigerated temperature and manages the production of over 11,460 tons of kiwi fruit a year.
Tote picking: speedy picking directly in bins
Tote picking consists of grouping the goods that make up an order inside a plastic bin.
Yamazaki Mazak: an automated buffer for freshly painted parts
United KingdomIndustrial machinery manufacturer Yamazaki Mazak has modernized its production center in Worcester (UK) with a fully automated storage buffer. Managed by Interlake Mecalux's Easy WMS, the automated warehouse stores freshly painted parts until they dry.
Goods-to-person: bringing products to operators
Goods-to-person picking is a new order preparation method that combines automated storage systems and agile, ergonomic workstations.
AMR vs. AGV: differences and which is better
AMR vs. AGV: these automated transportation systems streamline the internal transportation of goods between two areas in a logistics center, saving time and reducing accidents.
Pallet and push-back racks at the Brivio & Viganò warehouse
ItalyLogistics operator Brivio & Viganò has opened a warehouse in Pozzuolo Martesana (Italy) with seven cold stores that Mecalux has equipped with pallet racks and push-back racks. The racks are designed to absorb all the force generated by possible seismic movements.
PMP Fermentation Products: optimized space with a semi-automated system
Illinois (US)PMP Fermentation Products, a world leader in the fermentation of natural goods, will install the semi-automated Pallet Shuttle system by Interlake Mecalux. The company will optimize the surface area of its warehouse in Illinois to store a greater number of pallets in the smallest possible space.
Ship from store: turn your shop into a small distribution center
The ship-from-store logistics strategy turns a company’s physical store into a distribution center equipped to prepare and dispatch customers’ online orders.