How SLAM Can Help with Returns
You can make your returns life easier when using SLAM before the boxes and mailers leave your facility. Returns is part of the warehousing business, and becoming more so as ecommerce continues to explode. They are an increasingly larger part ...
Measuring Efficiency in SLAM Operations
Regular monitoring of your last 100 feet can help keep errors down. If you are considering automating your warehouse’s last 100 feet—the area where scanning, labeling, applying and manifesting takes place—odds are you are trying to solve one of several ...
Preparing for the Busy Season
In most of the world, the holidays feel far away. Not so for warehousing. Fall is here and the holidays are right around the corner which means that warehouses are gearing up for the full swing of peak shopping season. ...
Know Your Barcode Scanners
Barcode scanning isn’t new in the warehousing or manufacturing environments. In fact, you may already have one sort or another within your facility. But if not—or if you’re considering adding more to your operations, there are three main types to ...
Better Data Equals Better Labeling and Tagging
Your scanning, labeling, applying and manifesting (SLAM) operations might seem like some of the most basic and manual in the warehouse, but they are actually data-driven applications. Beginning with inbound operations, you are capturing data critical to ensuring packages end ...
Offsetting Labor Shortages with SLAM
The labor shortage isn’t going anywhere soon and the costs to attract reliable labor continue to rise. In some cases, warehouses and manufacturers are paying $30 an hour and higher to entice employees. Even then, reliability of those high-paid workers ...