The Pick and Pack Fulfillment Process
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting eCommerce boom, showed many B2C companies that they need help with timely order fulfillment. Whether due to an inability to handle high order volumes or simply inexperience in the B2C marketplace, these companies have…
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What is a 3PL Warehouse Management System?
With companies holding on to more inventory, the inventory management capabilities of your 3PL partner are more important than ever. At the heart of those capabilities is the 3PL’s warehouse management system (WMS). In this article, we’ll take a closer…
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Kanban’s Most Popular Blog Posts of 2021
From the warehouse labor shortage to the opening of the brand new CSX Carolina Connector, many blog topics resonated with readers in 2021. The following 3 blog posts were the most popular with our readers this year.
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Advantages of Basing Your Distribution Center in North Carolina
North Carolina, the Tar Heel State. Home to the Great Smokey Mountains, legendary college basketball, and the scene of the Wright Brothers’ first successful flight at Kitty Hawk. In fact, the “First in Flight” motto still appears on the state’s…
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What is contract warehousing?
Your products need warehousing for storage and distribution. But ‘warehousing’ is a broad term with many different definitions. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at one type of warehousing as we answer the question, “what is contract warehousing?”
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Top Kanban Logistics Posts of 2019
Kanban’s blog covers a wide range of topics. So, it’s always interesting to see the ones that resonated most with our readers. In this post, we’ll look back at our best-read blog posts of 2019.
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Looking to Add an East Coast eCommerce Fulfillment Center? Consider Eastern North Carolina
Business growth should always be a good thing. But growth is not without its headaches – especially in the world of eCommerce, where many companies struggle to keep up with consumer expectations for rapid fulfillment. This ‘struggle to keep up’…
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Warehousing: Who’s Liable for What in a 3PL Relationship?
Liability. It’s a term that most people like to avoid, and we can understand why. It conjures up thoughts of “things going wrong.” No one likes that, so best to avoid the subject, right? Wrong. Avoidance simply leads to finger-pointing…
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10 Questions to Ask Your Temperature-Controlled Warehouse Provider
Sensitive materials require a sensitive supply chain. For makers of foods, pharmaceuticals and other temperature-sensitive products, such a supply chain is one that can protect the temperature requirements of products from production all the way to final delivery. The temperature-controlled…
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