Distributors catch up on years of deduction claim backlog using Automation
iNymbus just released a special case study for Suppliers and Distributors entitled ‘Stop Battling Walmart Deductions, Start Increasing Your Profits’, describing the issues with retailer deduction dispute processes, and detailing how multiple distributors overcame mountains of deductions using cloud robotic automation. Many big-box store suppliers and distributors can relate to the overwhelm of retailer deductions. From the...
Used Equipment outlook for the first half of 2019
As the construction industry prepares for the first half of 2019, there’s good news and bad news – or, to better rephrase, there are going to be opportunities along with challenges. Several 2019 forecasts have already been released so it’s not news to most that the construction industry likely isn’t going to grow as much this year as 2018. In fact, there’s good reason to believe that it may remain flat year over year – not exactly...
Are you a Self-Determined Manager? 10 changes you might need to make right now
The best managers intentionally create an environment where employees thrive and great work gets done. To become what David Deacon calls “self-determined,” you must make a choice every day and never, ever let up Am I a great manager? This is an incredibly tough question to answer. A manager’s job is to get things done by marshaling the efforts of others—and most of us have blind spots that keep us from seeing how we...
The value of feature-rich Digital Weld Interfaces
The connection and interaction between an industrial robot, welding hardware and robot operator is made successful through a reliable and feature-rich weld interface. In recent years, industrial networking advancements have effectively shifted the market from using analog weld interfaces to digital weld interfaces. Along with sheer processing power, today’s power sources hold a wealth of process knowledge and weld parameters, with...
Can your WMS do that? What the modern warehouse needs
In our first blog we covered how omnichannel shopping has meant both B2B companies and B2C consumers are making smaller, more frequent orders, with tighter delivery windows and higher costs to fulfill them. The technology at the heart of most packaged warehouse management systems, utilizing traditional wave fulfillment, is about 25 years old. When it was developed, Amazon and e-commerce didn’t exist. Although the wave remains very...
Steiger family’s induction into Agricultural Equipment Manufacturers’ Hall of Fame coincides with half-century of tractor manufacturing in Fargo
Innovators in four-wheel drive articulated tractor design honored for contribution to agricultural engineering / Current site of Case IH Steiger and Quadtrac production at Fargo, North Dakota, celebrates half-century of manufacturing in 2019 John, Maurice and Douglass Steiger, the father and sons who built the first Steiger articulated 4wd tractor more than 60 years ago, have been inducted into the Association of Equipment...
Industry remains charged up about lithium-ion batteries
Though lithium-ion technology has been around for more than two decades, it’s just recently that this technology has been available in material handling applications. “We’re definitely in an evolution, if you think of it as crawl-walk-run adaptation, we’re still in that crawl stage,” says Jennifer de Souza, senior director of Energy Solutions & Procurement for Raymond. “There’s a lot of shiny objects.” But that interest and buzz...
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