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The healthcare industry faces numerous challenges stemming from labor shortages, rising operational costs, and a higher patient influx. As a result, more hospitals are automating workflows to improve patient care and create unified, efficient workflows...

Clinical workers need to meet shifting demands and overcome healthcare challenges like incomplete visibility, labor shortages, and workflow management. When these challenges come into hospital floors, they can hinder the ability to improve patient care...

Customer demands are rising as a result of the e-commerce surge. Your warehouse must find an order picking system that is equipped to adapt to these rising customer demands. If your warehouse does not meet consumer demands, your business could suffer a...

No matter how much heart is put towards buying gifts, warehouses consistently expect a spike in returns following each year’s gift-giving season. Businesses face soaring customer demands to provide fast and free return despite increased shipping and...

While order picking is still a warehouse’s primary workflow, it can be quite complex due to customer demands for faster and more accurate service. Navigating through multiple new expectations and compliance challenges, order picking now also contributes...

Traditional green screen applications have been a staple in high-functioning warehouses for the past decade; however, as the younger generation overtakes the American workforce, green-screen apps become less familiar. Studies predict that over a third of...

It is estimated the average cost of a mis-pick can be up to $100 depending on product demand, current labor costs, and customer goodwill. Order fulfillment operations seeking to minimize costly mis-picks have turned from traditional paper-and-pencil...

Streamlining connectivity across the supply chain is a challenge that businesses must face to stay productive and enable growth. Coincidentally, the next WiFi standard, WiFi 6, is in the process of rolling out now, and it is built to simultaneously...

As their business environment continues to change, many supply chain managers can find themselves asking: “Should I stick with traditional barcoding processes, or switch to a newer, more efficient, voice-picking solution?” While a vast majority of...

The way your business tracks and traces its products can have a big impact on customer satisfaction and productivity. The biggest manufacturing productivity risks of not tracking and tracing properly are disruption, equipment failure, poor quality...