MAKING THE CASE FOR Streamlining Your Dock Operations

摘要

IIN TODAY'S FAST-PACED FULFILLMENT ENVIRONMENT, balancing speed with efficiency and safety is no easy task. Driven by the uptick in e-commerce, shorter delivery times, changing customer expectations, and national unemployment rates that are currently at 50-year lows, product-oriented companies across all sectors are looking for new ways to streamline their dock operations. Seeking higher facility throughputs, many of those companies are looking to a warehouse and distribution center (DC) mainstay: the dock door. Both functional and fundamental in nature, this threshold to and from the loading dock is ripe for a technological upgrade. In a world where labor is not only hard to come by, but where many fulfillment operations rely on temporary workers, any new equipment must be easy to use and require little or no training to operate.