Here is a special sneak preview of some of the stories you will find this week on the Bahrns blog: You’ve probably heard of the Panama Canal, but what about the Nicaraguan Canal? The strange story of this proposed rival includes Russian expansion, a Chinese billionaire, a former Sandinista leader, and the industrialization of Central … Read more
Managers at the German staircase company Krieger Treppen GmbH had a problem. Workers were unable to lift the wooden planks weighing up to 353 pounds in order to carve them into staircase steps. So the company turned to the North Carolina-based FIPA Inc. to design, build and install a custom material handling solution that allowed … Read more
Over the next five years, nearly 9 out of every 10 distribution centers and warehouse are expected to incorporate voice directed mobile technology to their operations, according to to a survey released recently. And that’s if they aren’t using this technology already. The survey, commissioned by the technology giant Honeywell in conjunction with research group … Read more
Here is a special sneak preview of some of the stories you will find this week on the Bahrns blog: 9 out of 10 distribution centers plan on switching to voice-controlled mobile technology to increase efficiency during the next five years, according to a new survey. We’ll tell you the benefits of this popular new … Read more
Engineering students at the University of Tennessee are getting a hands-on education on streamlining inventory and reducing delivery times thanks to a generous donation from one of the country’s leading maker of storage bins. Akro-Mils — the Akron, Ohio, based manufacturer of storage and organization products — recently donated $4,700 worth of products to the … Read more
Company parties offer the opportunity for people who spend most of the work days together to finally get together, relax, and socialize a little. They can be either a welcome respite to the day-to-day grind … or the chance for somebody to make such a spectacle of themselves that everybody else will be talking about … Read more
Consumers are becoming more wary of Black Friday shopping in which crazed customers scramble for a handful of low-priced “doorbusters”, according to to a new survey. And according to a new survey, many shoppers are warning retailers that they better have their act together this year … or else! Doorbusters Still Important, But … While … Read more
More than half of all consumers would be willing to pay 5% or more for the products that they order online if it means they can be delivered using environmentally-friendly trucks and delivery vans, according to the results of a new study. And 76% of consumers polled said they would be willing to wait at … Read more
Here is a special sneak preview of some of the stories you will find this week on the Bahrns blog: Black Friday is next week, but this year consumers are expected to be less patient with retailers both in stores and online. We’ll tell you why and share the other results of a new survey … Read more
Operators of a Florida food warehouse have found a way to make workers more accountable and significantly reduce operational costs at the same time. Like many distribution centers, Cheney Brothers uses radio-frequency scanners to track inventory in its Ocala warehouse from the moment it arrived to when it went out the door to be shipped … Read more
