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Creating a culture of innovation
  
Establishing a company culture that nurtures innovation from all angles requires balancing groundbreaking ideas with steadfast business sense—incorporating and encouraging change while maintaining a solid base. Therefore, companies find themselves facing an eternal question: How can you encourage innovation and creativity while remaining solidly planted in your day-to-day operations?
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Cimcorp®
Cimcorp is changing the game and securing freshness for your business with our grocery retail intralogistics solution. With the ability to streamline operations, speed up delivery, and curate a solution that goes hand-in-hand with your supply chain strategy, Cimcorp is here to serve! Our intralogistics solution operates on the foundation of being fast and adaptive, fulfilling orders accurately, optimal traceability of product flows, fast return on investment, high hygienic standards, and a user-friendly system.   
  
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MHI Updates
Justifying robotics in your operations
You’re considering adding robotics to your operations, which has the potential to be a game changer. But first you need budget approval from the C-suite, and that’s not always an easy task. With the right approach, however, you can justify and secure funding for your new robotic system. 
   
Pflow Industries, Inc.
      
FOX IV Technologies, Inc.
   
WERC DC Measures benchmarking tool
This new digital resource is designed to help leverage hard data to benchmark, measure and improve operational performance for warehouse/distribution operations.
Technology and Innovation
Gartner top supply chain tech themes for 2022
  
With increasing pressure to implement technology in response to supply chain disruptions, shortages and security breaches, Gartner identified eight supply chain technology themes based on their potential to deliver automation, intelligence and resiliency.
How standardized location-data is revolutionizing global production
Managing and monitoring the movement of assets across supply chains is becoming increasingly mandatory for the success of large-scale projects.
When the doors are open
Berner International Corporation®
Are your clients looking to protect their shipping and receiving areas from flying insects and summer heat? Berner Industrial Air Curtains support Warehouses, Distribution Centers, and Food Processors with chemical-free flying insect control.  When the doors are open, maintain interior temperatures, protect products, and save energy while goods are transferred through the doorway.  Simple to install, operate, and maintain.  Made in USA.
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IoT benefits for overhead crane owners and operators 
Every operation wants to save time and reduce costs, including those that rely on one or more overhead crane systems. With the latest developments in technologies that leverage the Internet of Things (IoT), remote monitoring and analysis of overhead equipment, its operation and its components, it’s becoming easier for system owners and operators to do just that.
Wearable technology use trending up in DCs/Warehouses
Wearable technology fills a need to work more efficiently, safely and faster as the explosion of e-commerce demands occur at the same time the industry is experiencing workforce challenges.
   
BASF Corporation
   
Sustainability
Driving ESG goals through the supply chain
Supply chain transparency may be the buzzword of the day, but determining if your suppliers are helping or hurting your drive to net zero and other business sustainability goals is easier said than done. New supply chain mapping and monitoring tools are helping crack the code.
Ascent Warehouse Logistics Doubles Productivity with Less Workers
Intek Integration Technologies, Inc.®
Ascent Warehouse Logistics creates and implements automated warehouse solutions. Ascent upgrades warehouse performance by reviewing current baselines, identifying and quantifying areas of concern, and proposing cost effective solutions. By leveraging the expertise of both Intek and Minerva Associates, Ascent Warehouse Logistics delivers comprehensive software and hardware material handling solutions and automation.
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Supply Chain Trends
Supply chain investments spurred by pandemic
In the ninth edition of the MHI Annual Industry Report, 87% of leaders say COVID-19 altered the strategic importance of supply chains and 64% plan to increase spending on innovative technologies.
In today’s labor market, you can’t afford not to automate
Shippers are realizing that the time to automate is right now. Those who delay risk alienating customers with slow service, eroding profit margins and failing to execute on their growth strategies.
Manufacturing
4 functional shelving accessories
In many operations, shelving is what creates order in a world of chaos. Shelving provides a means to store things. It also makes them readily available and easy to find. By utilizing the right accessories, the possibilities are endless.
   
SICK Inc
   
Workforce
Supercharge ergonomics and productivity with these solutions
By implementing systems and equipment that support five key ergonomic principles, companies can not only make tasks safer, but they can also boost throughput.