BEHIND THE BUZZ ABOUT FLXIBLE AUTOMATION

摘要

The explosion of e-commerce has profoundly impacted materials handling automation. Warehouses and fulfillment centers used to maintain a straightforward focus on shipping full pallets and larger units, but e-commerce created the need to ship goods at case, split-case, each, and even item levels. As a result, materials handling automation strategies and operations at many distribution centers (DCs) have undergone radical change.