Material Handling & Logistics News Archive
Weber Distribution Wins Vitamin Shoppe Business
Weber Distribution, a third party logistics and supply chain management provider, announced that it has signed a multi-year contract with The Vitamin Shoppe, a specialty retailer and direct marketer of nutritional products, to warehouse and distribute many of their top volume items throughout the Western United States...
Build-to-Suit Distribution Center to Serve Western Mass.
Full-service commercial real estate and construction firm Campanelli Companies reported a newly-signed contract to build 30,976 square feet of distribution and office space at Westover Airport West on Lonczak Drive in Chicopee, Mass. Campanelli’s staff will provide turnkey services for the build-to-suit facility...
Real Time RFID Solution for Wineries
Silvertap, a Free Flow Wines brand and industry leader in wines on tap, is working with Mobile BIS, providers of mobile technology services, to develop RFID technology-based mobile software that tracks and validates every step of the wine keg’s product lifecycle. From the warehouse to bars and restaurants around the world and back, every keg of wine in Silvertap’s pipeline is tracked...
Aspen Logistics Pursues Playground Project
Aspen Logistics, Inc., a 3PL, will send two representatives to help build a playground in Atlanta, Georgia, as part of an annual charity event. The Home Depot Foundation, along with its partners, suppliers and the nonprofit Kaboom organization, as well as the YMCA, put together this year’s event...
Wire Decking Industry Fights Chinese Imports
In June 2010, the Commerce Department determined that wire decking from China was both dumped and subsidized. Despite Commerce’s findings of unfair trade practices, the International Trade Commission, in a split 4 to 2 vote, found that these imports were not causing injury to the domestic industry. As a result, no orders to offset the unfair trading practices were imposed...
Material Handling Management to become Material Handling & Logistics
New name reflects the increasing importance of supply chain management in manufacturing and distribution operations...
U.S. Marshals bust rodent-infested warehouse
U.S. Marshals, acting under a court order sought by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, seized packaged food products from a rodent-infested warehouse in Athens, Ga. A variety of products, including crackers, cookies and potato chips, were intended for sale to jails and prisons throughout the southeastern United States. ...
Warehouse technology to be demonstrated at CSCMP
Attendees of this year’s Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Global Conference (Sept. 26 to 29) will have the opportunity to see demonstrations of new warehouse hardware and software at a “Supply Chain of the Future” lab....
Finished Goods Inventories Fall, Order Fill Rates Rise
More than half of the companies in a new survey saw a decrease in inventory levels in 2009. Despite these reduced inventory levels, customer satisfaction remained the same or improved for nearly 80% of these companies, according to a recent Finished Goods Inventory Management Report by Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium. ...
MHIA’s MODEX links material handling to supply chain
Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA) has announced it will launch a new event supporting the growing professional focus on the global supply chain and logistics. MODEX 2012 will be held February 6-9, 2012 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA...
Protective Packaging Solutions Acquires Alpha Packaging
Protective Packaging Solutions, LLC, (PPS), Louisville, KY, has acquired the assets of Alpha Packaging of Cincinnati, OH, establishing itself as one of the region’s largest converters of protective packaging products...
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