The coronavirus outbreak is quickly changing the way we think about sanitation in the warehousing industry. These essential facilities tend to be filled with warehouse personnel, along with valuable supplies that need to make their way to consumers. When managing a warehouse, you need to make sure your team members are following basic sanitation guidelines to prevent the spread of disease. Providing face masks and other PPE will help keep your workers safe and healthy. If you fall behind on these sanitation requirements, your workers could easily get sick on the job, bringing your facility to a grinding halt, or they could pass these germs onto the end consumer, further exacerbating the outbreak. Continue reading →

Across the world, high-income countries use 59 percent of their water for industrial use, including fabricating, processing, washing, diluting, cooling or transporting a product. Various companies are using up more water than the average citizen, but are these organizations doing enough to curb their water consumption rates? Continue reading →

Efficiency is usually top of mind when it comes to running an eCommerce fulfillment center. You and your team need to quickly retrieve items, prepare them for shipment and get them out the door so they can be delivered as fast as possible. For online retailers, the average cost to fulfill an order is 70 percent of the average order value. That means your business is only making 30 percent profit off every item that leaves your facility. Continue reading →