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 ...
Maintain Your SLAM Equipment
Having a well-trained team in-house will keep your equipment humming. With ongoing labor shortages and increasing demand, warehouses are turning to automation more than ever. This comes in many forms, from material handling equipment like forklifts and conveyors, to autonomous ...
How SLAM Helps Get the Order Right
In the competitive ecommerce world, keeping customers means getting the order right. It also means your bottom line isn’t hurt from chargebacks and other penalties when you make a mistake. It also means your packages arrive undamaged, both on the ...
Optimize the Final 100 Feet
Efficient SLAM operations depend on software integration. Your shipping, labeling, applying, and manifesting (SLAM) area is a critical component to your overall operations. Known as the final 100 feet, SLAM is the final stop before your orders make their way ...
Using Peak Season for Next Season
Taking stock of your operations after peak season can set you up for future success. For most companies, peak season is just around the corner, and that means you are ramping up according to plans you carefully laid out. From ...
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. ...
Podcast: Elevating Order Fulfillment: VRCs & SLAM Efficiency in the ...
In the bustling world of eCommerce, the heart of warehouse efficiency pulses within the final 100 feet. This pivotal space, integral to order fulfillment, has remained largely untouched by many optimization strategies – until now. Our latest episode of the ...
Right-Size Your Packaging
Sustainability efforts require a multi-faceted approach, and packaging is one big piece of the puzzle. Sustainability is becoming a core competency for many companies, and there are multiple methods to do better by the planet. Within the world of warehousing ...
How SLAM Saves on Shipping Costs
The final 100 feet of your warehouse can add up to big shipping savings. Warehouses have been scanning, labeling, applying, and manifesting (SLAM) for years. It’s just in the past decade or so, however, that companies are recognizing the cost ...